---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1394"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1394"
heading: "Payments to States; adjustments; advances or reimbursement; installments; conditions"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1394"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XVII — Grants for Planning Comprehensive Action to Combat Mental Retardation"
---

# §1394. Payments to States; adjustments; advances or reimbursement; installments; conditions


Payment of [grants](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=10) under this subchapter may be made (after necessary adjustment on account of previously made underpayments or overpayments) in advance or by way of reimbursement, and in such installments and on such conditions, as the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) may determine.


## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XVII, § 1704, as added Pub. L. 88–156, § 5, Oct. 24, 1963, 77 Stat. 276.)