Section 7 Program of social services; emergency grants; funeral and burial costs - Massachusetts Statutes

[ Text of section effective until July 1, 2010. For text effective July 1, 2010, see below.]

  Section 7. The department shall provide to aged and disabled residents of the commonwealth under this chapter a program of social services as enumerated under section two of chapter eighteen. In addition to the other benefits authorized by this chapter, the department may provide to such recipients grants of assistance in cases of fire, flood, or other disaster. The department may pay a sum not exceeding eleven hundred dollars for the funeral and burial of a recipient provided that cost of funeral and burial does not exceed fifteen hundred dollars and there are insufficient resources to pay for the cost of such funeral and burial. Any resources of the recipient shall be deducted from the maximum cost of the funeral and burial allowable hereunder and the difference, subject to the limitation set forth in this paragraph, shall be paid by the department.

Chapter 118A: Section 7. Program of social services; emergency grants; funeral and burial costs

[ Text of section as amended by 2010, 131, Sec. 70 effective July 1, 2010. See 2010, 131, Sec. 202. For text effective until July 1, 2010, see above.]

  Section 7. The department shall provide to aged and disabled residents under this chapter a program of social services as set forth in section 2 of chapter 18. In addition to any other benefits authorized by this chapter, the department may provide to such residents grants of assistance in cases of fire, flood or other disaster. The department may pay a sum not exceeding $1,100 toward the funeral and final disposition of a recipient to a funeral establishment if there are insufficient resources to pay for the cost of such funeral and final disposition. The commonwealth shall have the right of reimbursement from whatever resources may exist in the estate of the recipient.