Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 508 – Application for assistance
(a) Application for assistance shall be made to the appropriate county office of the Department. The application shall be in writing in the manner and form and giving such information as shall be required by the Department. An opportunity to file an application shall be given any person desiring to do so. The Department shall act on all applications and furnish aid to eligible persons with reasonable promptness.
Terms Used In Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 508
- Applicant: means any person or family who applies for assistance or welfare services or on whose behalf such application is made under the terms of this chapter. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 502
- Assistance: means assistance to or on behalf of eligible needy persons or eligible families to enable them to improve their standard of living, including money payments, child care, job training, education, other support services, medical or surgical care, dental care, nursing, burial, board and care in a private institution, adult foster care, rest residential facility for adults, public medical institution as a patient, or such other aid as may be deemed necessary. See Delaware Code Title 31 Sec. 502
(b) The information supplied by an applicant in an application for assistance shall be sworn to as being true and correct to the best of the applicant’s knowledge, and any employee of the Department accepting such application is hereby given the authority to administer an oath to the applicant in the manner prescribed in Chapter 53 of Title 10, that the information given is true and correct to the best of the knowledge of the applicant.
37 Del. Laws, c. 85, § ?8; Code 1935, § ?1611; 31 Del. C. 1953, § ?507; 50 Del. Laws, c. 278, § ?5; 54 Del. Laws, c. 285; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § ?1;