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title: O.C.G.A. § 49-4-85. Payment of assistance after recipient moves to another county.
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# O.C.G.A. § 49-4-85. Payment of assistance after recipient moves to another county.

Any recipient who moves to another county in this state shall be entitled, with the approval of the Department of Human Services, to receive assistance in the county to which he has moved; and the county department of the county from which he has moved shall transfer all necessary records relating to the recipient to the county department of the county to which he has moved. The county from which the recipient has moved shall pay the assistance for a period of two months, after which time the county to which he has moved shall pay the assistance, if he remains otherwise eligible.

## History

Ga. L. 1952, p. 15, § 13; Ga. L. 2009, p. 453, § 2-2/HB 228.