Section 235-A. Income and resources not to include agent orange benefits

Notwithstanding any inconsistent provision of law,  the  terms  "income"
  and  "resources"  for  the purpose of determining eligibility for or the
  amount of benefits under any means-tested state  or  state  assisted  or
  federally  assisted  program  including  but  not limited to programs of
  public assistance and care,  including  family  assistance,  safety  net
  assistance,  medical  assistance,  title  XX of the social security act,
  food stamp program, the program of additional state payments to  persons
  eligible  for  supplemental  security income, the low income home energy
  assistance  program  and  grants,  loans  and  scholarships  and   other
  means-tested  programs  for  educational  assistance,  shall not include
  payments received from the agent orange settlement  fund  or  any  other
  fund  established  pursuant  to the settlement in the in re agent orange
  product liability litigation,  M.D.L.  No.  381  (E.D.N.Y.)  and/or  any
  payments  received  from court proceedings brought for personal injuries
  sustained by veterans resulting  from  exposure  to  dioxin  or  phenoxy
  herbicides in connection with the war in Indochina in the period January
  first,  nineteen hundred sixty-two through May seventh, nineteen hundred
  seventy-five.