Relocation Assistance Law

This act governs the treatment of people and businesses displaced when a government agency acquires property for a public project. It requires the acquiring agency to pay relocation benefits — moving expenses, dislocation allowances, fixed payments, and additional payments toward replacement housing — and to run advisory programs that help displaced persons find and secure suitable replacement dwellings, barring a required move until such housing is actually available. It also sets eligibility limits and an appeal process for eligibility determinations, treats relocation payments as neither income nor resources for purposes of other benefit programs, and makes them additional to any compensation otherwise owed.

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