AS 06.65.100: Eligible individuals.

To be eligible for a program account, when an individual or the individual's representative establishes the program account or makes a distribution to another program account under AS 06.65.200, the individual must be

(1) entitled to benefits based on blindness or disability under 42 U.S.C. 401 — 434 or 42 U.S.C. 1381 — 1383f, and the blindness or disability must have occurred before the date on which the individual reached the age required by the federal authorizing law for this purpose; or

(2) an individual for whom a disability certification that satisfies the secretary and the federal authorizing law is filed with the secretary for the calendar year in which the eligible individual or the eligible individual's representative opens the program account.