S.C. Code Ann. § 43-5-190 :
Article 1. Public Aid and Assistance
� 43-5-190. Payments to be exempt from taxes, levy or other process; payments to be inalienable and unassignable; bankruptcy.
All amounts paid or payable as assistance shall be exempt from any tax levied by the State or any subdivision thereof, shall be exempt from levy and sale, attachment or any other process whatsoever, and shall be inalienable and unassignable in advance in any form and, in case of bankruptcy, shall not pass to the trustee or other person acting on behalf of the creditors of the recipient of assistance.
Last Amended: 1997
1997
HISTORY: 1976 Code � 45-5-130; 1962 Code � 71-63; 1952 Code � 71-63; 1942 Code � 4996-20; 1937 (40) 496; 1978 Act No. 549.
HISTORY: Amended by 1997 Act No. 133, � 7, eff June 11, 1997.