Chapter XXIX: Section 4: Old Age assistance may be granted only to an applicant who

(a) Has attained the age of sixty-five or upwards

(b) Is a citizen of the United States

(c) Resides in the State of Pennsylvania and has so resided continuously for not less than fifteen years immediately preceding the date of application for assistance Provided That continuous residence in Pennsylvania shall not be deemed to have been interrupted by occasional absence therefrom where the total period of all such absence does not exceed two years or in case the person has been absent from the State while in the employ or service of the State or of the United States and provided further that a person who resided in the State of Pennsylvania forty (40) years at least five (5) of which have been immediately preceding the date of application shall be deemed qualified in respect to residence.

(d) Is not at the date of making application an inmate of any prison jail or workhouse infirmary insane asylum county or district poorhouse or any other public reform or correctional institution

PROPERTY QUALIFICATIONS