Georgia Code
Article 1 - General Provisions
§ 49-4-6. Reserves, Income, and Resources to Be Disregarded

History. Ga. L. 1965, p. 385, § 14; Ga. L. 1967, p. 878, § 5; Ga. L. 1982, p. 3, § 49; Ga. L. 1987, p. 1435, § 1; Ga. L. 1990, p. 45, § 1; Ga. L. 1996, p. 804, § 3; Ga. L. 1999, p. 296, § 24; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228; Ga. L. 2015, p. 5, § 49/HB 90.
The 2015 amendment, effective March 13, 2015, part of an Act to revise, modernize, and correct the Code, deleted former subsection (b), which read: “For purposes of applying the $50.00 child support disregard provided for in Title IV of the federal Social Security Act, amounts paid by the Social Security Administration under the Old Age Survivors and Disability Insurance (OASDI) program, payments made by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs to the family, and any other benefits not assignable to the state pursuant to Title IV of the federal Social Security Act shall not be considered child support.”; and redesignated former subsection (c) as present subsection (b).
Code Commission notes.
Pursuant to Code Section 28-9-5, in 1996, “community trust” was substituted for “Community Trust” in subsection (c).
Editor’s notes.
Ga. L. 1987, p. 1435, § 5(b), not codified by the General Assembly, provided: “Subsection (b) of Code Section 49-4-6, as amended by Section 1 of this Act, is repealed effective on the date on which the federal acts referenced herein or any federal regulations or interpretations of such act or regulations by the federal agency or a judicial decision binding on the State of Georgia are amended or changed to allow federal financial participation in AFDC payments which treat social security disability benefits or veterans’ benefits in the same manner as other child support payments.”
Those provisions of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act relating to the child support disregard ( 42 U.S.C. § 602(a) (8)(A)(vi) ) were repealed by § 103 of P.L. 104-193, the “Personal Responsibility & Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.”
U.S. Code.
Titles IV, XVI, XIX, and XX of the federal Social Security Act, referred to in this Code section, are codified at 42 U.S.C. §§ 601 et seq., 1381 et seq., 1396 et seq., 1397 et seq., respectively.
Law reviews.
For article, “Special Needs Trusts: A Planning Tool with Promises,” see 16 (No. 2) Ga. St. B.J. 18 (2010).

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