### Question
Can you define what aid to the blind means?


### Answer
**Aid to the blind** is defined as the following in *42 U.S.C. § 1206*:

> money payments to blind individuals who are needy, but does not include any such payments to or care in behalf of any individual who is an inmate of a public institution (except as a patient in a medical institution) or any individual who is a patient in an institution for tuberculosis or mental diseases

#### Citation:
  - *42 U.S.C. § 1206*
  - Heading: **CHAPTER 7-SOCIAL SECURITY > SUBCHAPTER X-GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO BLIND**

