RSA 167:4 Eligibility for Assistance.

I. Public assistance, including medical assistance and food stamps, shall be granted under this chapter or RSA 161 to any eligible person as defined in RSA 167:6 or RSA 161 who has not sufficient income or other resources to provide a reasonable subsistence compatible with decency and health and may be granted to anyone who is an inmate of a public institution, including a patient in a public medical institution which meets the federal or state standards and is so certified by the appropriate state and federal agency, except that:
(a) In the determination of sufficiency of income and resources, the commissioner of the department of health and human services may disregard such income and resources as may be permitted by the Social Security Act of the United States, as amended,