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Exemption: Social services payments

Citation: Stat. - Wis. Stat. Ann. § 49.96

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Wis. Stat. Ann. § 49.96 :
Chapter 49. Public Assistance (Refs & Annos)

Subchapter VI. General Provisions

49.96. Assistance grants exempt from levy

All grants of aid to families with dependent children, payments made under ss. 48.57 (3m) or (3n), 49.148 (1)(b) 1. or (c) or (1m) or 49.149 to 49.159, payments made for social services, cash benefits paid by counties under s. 59.53 (21), and benefits under s. 49.77 or federal Title XVI, are exempt from every tax, and from execution, garnishment, attachment and every other process and shall be inalienable.

COMMENTS--1997 ACT 105, � 27

2003 Main Volume

Note: Current law provides that certain types of assistance payments, including kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3m), stats., are exempt from levy. This bill adds a parallel exemption for long-term kinship care payments under s. 48.57 (3n), stats., as created by the bill.
Last Amended: 1997
1997
L.1947, c. 121.

St.1947, � 49.41.

L.1967, c. 9, � 8, eff. March 31, 1967.

L.1973, c. 147, � 19, eff. Jan. 1, 1974.

1987 Act 27, �� 989e to 989i, eff. April 1, 1988.

1987 Act 399, �� 157i, 157j, eff. April 1, 1988.

1989 Act 278, � 2, eff. May 4, 1990.

St.1993, � 49.41.

1995 Act 27, � 2939, eff. Jan. 1, 1996.

1995 Act 27, � 2940, eff. July 1, 1996.

1995 Act 201, � 81, eff. Sept. 1, 1996.

1995 Act 289, � 216, eff. July 1, 1996.

1997 Act 27, � 2004m, eff. Feb. 1, 1999.

1997 Act 35, � 135, eff. Dec. 31, 1997.

1997 Act 105, � 27, eff. April 29, 1998.

1997 Act 105, � 27g, eff. Feb. 1, 1999.

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