In the event that any person applying for or receiving public assistance or state-administered general assistance has any right to rescind, revoke, avoid or otherwise set aside any assignment, transfer or other disposition of property, the state shall be subrogated to such right. The Commissioner of Social Services may bring such civil actions and pursue such other remedies as would have been available to such recipient to enforce such right, for the purposes described in section 17b-100, whether or not such disposition constituted a fraudulent conveyance within the meaning of said section 17b-100.