No. SB 1594
Filed under Public Health & Safety.
Veteran Benefit Payments to Minor Clients; Authorizing the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities to access certain benefit payments for specified purposes; prohibiting the Department of Children and Families, the Department of Health, or the Agency for Persons with Disabilities from supplanting certain financial assistance, etc.
Plain English Summary
AI-GENERATEDOnce a minor client in the department's care turns 18 -- or 23, if still enrolled in school -- the department may draw on that client's combined account holding VA benefit payments for postsecondary education and aftercare services.
That access comes with a limit: the department cannot use the VA funds to supplant -- replace or reduce -- the specific financial assistance section 409.1451(2)(b) otherwise requires it to provide to that client.
AIThe department may draw on benefit payments the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs pays into a minor client's combined account for postsecondary education and aftercare services, once that client turns 18, or turns 23 if still enrolled in school.
AIEven after tapping a client's VA benefit account, the department may not use that access to supplant, meaning replace or reduce, the specific financial assistance section 409.1451(2)(b) otherwise requires it to provide.