---
kind: "section"
citation: "25 C.F.R. § 700.147"
title: "25"
number: "700.147"
heading: "Eligibility."
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/25/700.147"
---

# §700.147. Eligibility.

- (a) To be eligible for services provided for under the Act, and these regulations, the head of household and/or immediate family must have been residents on December 22, 1974, of an area partitioned to the Tribe of which they were not members.
- (b) **The burden of proving residence and head of household status is on the applicant.**
- (c) Eligibility for benefits is further restricted by 25 U.S.C. [640d-13(c)](/usc/25/640d-13.md?p=c) and [14(c)](/usc/25/14.md?p=c).
- (d) Individuals are not entitled to receive separate benefits if it is determined that they are members of a household which has received benefits.
- (e) **Relocation benefits are restricted to those who qualify as heads-of-household as of July 7, 1986.**

## Notes

### Amendments

[49 FR 22278, May 29, 1984, as amended at 51 FR 19170, May 28, 1986]

### Authority

Authority: Pub. L. 99-590; Pub. L. 93-531, 88 Stat. 1712 as amended by Pub. L. 96-305, 94 Stat. 929, Pub. L. 100-666, 102 Stat. 3929 (25 U.S.C. 640d).

### Source

Source: 47 FR 2092, Jan. 14, 1982, unless otherwise noted.

### Amendments

[49 FR 22278, May 29, 1984, as amended at 51 FR 19170, May 28, 1986]