N.Y. Military Law § 235-a: Income and resources not to include agent orange benefits

§ 235-a. Income and resources not to include agent orange benefits.

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law, the terms "income"

and "resources" for the purpose of determining eligibility for or the

amount of benefits under any means-tested state or state assisted or

federally assisted program including but not limited to programs of

public assistance and care, including family assistance, safety net

assistance, medical assistance, title XX of the social security act,

food stamp program, the program of additional state payments to persons

eligible for supplemental security income, the low income home energy

assistance program and grants, loans and scholarships and other

means-tested programs for educational assistance, shall not include

payments received from the agent orange settlement fund or any other

fund established pursuant to the settlement in the in re agent orange

product liability litigation, M.D.L. No. 381 (E.D.N.Y.) and/or any

payments received from court proceedings brought for personal injuries

sustained by veterans resulting from exposure to dioxin or phenoxy

herbicides in connection with the war in Indochina in the period January

first, nineteen hundred sixty-two through May seventh, nineteen hundred

seventy-five.