111-18.1. Award and assistance checks payable to decedents.
(a) In the event of the death of a recipient of an award made pursuant to G.S. 111-18 during or after the first day of the month for which the award was authorized to be paid, any check or checks in payment of such award made payable to the deceased recipient and not endorsed prior to the payee's death shall be delivered to the clerk of the superior court and be by him administered under the provisions of G.S. 28A-25-6.
(b) In the event of the death of a recipient of a cash payment service that was rendered as part of a program of public assistance for the blind or visually impaired, any check issued for the payment of that service made payable to that recipient, but not endorsed prior to the recipient's death, shall be returned to the issuing agency and made void. The issuing agency shall then issue a check payable to the provider of the service for the sum remaining due for this service, not to exceed the amount of the returned and voided check. (1979, c. 762, s. 2; 2000-121, s. 15.)
Structure North Carolina General Statutes
North Carolina General Statutes
Chapter 111 - Aid to the Blind
§ 111-13 - Administration of assistance; objective standards for personnel; rules and regulations.
§ 111-14 - Application for benefits under Article; investigation and award by county commissioners.
§ 111-15 - Eligibility for relief.
§ 111-16 - Application for aid; notice of award; review.
§ 111-17 - Amount and payment of assistance; source of funds.
§ 111-18.1 - Award and assistance checks payable to decedents.
§ 111-19 - Intercounty transfer of recipients.
§ 111-20 - Awards subject to reopening upon change in condition.
§ 111-21 - Disqualifications for relief.
§ 111-22 - Beneficiaries not deemed paupers.
§ 111-23 - Misrepresentation or fraud in obtaining assistance.
§ 111-24 - Cooperation with federal departments or agencies; grants from federal government.
§ 111-25 - Acceptance and use of federal aid.
§ 111-26 - Termination of federal aid.
§ 111-27.2 - Blind vending-stand operators; retirement benefits.
§ 111-30 - Personal representatives for certain recipients of aid to the blind.
§ 111-31 - Courts for purposes of §§ 111-30 to 111-33; records.
§ 111-32 - Findings under § 111-30 not competent as evidence in other proceedings.
§ 111-33 - Sections 111-30 to are not to affect provisions for payments for minors.