42 U.S.C. § 18501 — Exclusion of payments from State eugenics compensation programs from consideration in determining eligibility for, or the amount of, Federal public benefits

(a) In general — No matter what other law says, if someone gets a payment from a State^* eugenics compensation program, the federal government cannot count that payment as income or as a resource. This applies both when deciding if the person qualifies for a Federal public benefit, and when deciding how much of that benefit they get.

(b) Definitions

(1) Federal public benefit — This term covers two kinds of things: (A) any grant, contract, loan, professional license, or commercial license that a U.S. federal agency gives out, or that is paid for with appropriated federal money; and (B) any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment, or similar benefit that a federal agency or appropriated federal money provides to an individual, household, or family.

(2) State eugenics compensation program — This means a program a state sets up by state law to compensate people the state sterilized using its own legal authority.