Word: afdc
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would replace the AFDC program; each family would get $1,600 from the Federal Government. That would be only the floor. Through continuing state contributions atop that sum, most recipients would get approximately what they get now. But the change in much of the South would be dramatic. HEW estimates that there are 845,000 AFDC families in the South and Puerto Rico that would benefit to varying degrees. In Alabama, for instance, the maximum payment for an AFDC family of four is now $972; under FAP, it would be at least the federally guaranteed $1,600, even if Alabama...
...accepted definition of the programs that actually constitute the welfare system. But there are six basic elements that HEW considers the core of welfare: Medicaid; Old Age Assistance (OAA); Aid to the Blind (AB); Aid to the Permanently and Totally Disabled (APTD); the fastest growing, Aid for Dependent Children (AFDC) and General Assistance, a locally used catchall category...
...programs has there ever been a national, uniform standard. Though the Federal Government pays approximately half the cost of all the basic programs except General Assistance, how much an individual receives is determined by what his state is willing to spend. In Mississippi, a mother and three children under AFDC must live on $840 a year; in New Jersey, the same family would receive $4,164, with no other circumstances of their lives changed. Washington sets some of the rules. To get at the funds, the states and localities meet the rules, often grudgingly, and then set some of their...