Word: afdc
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...more basic issue, as Vermont's Republican Governor Richard Snelling views it, is that "this is not a numbers game, but a question of how people will be served." Most critics of the swap see a great danger that once federal funding of AFDC and food stamps ends, many states will deliberately keep such benefits low in the expectation that the poor will move to states where benefits are higher. Contends Felix Rohatyn, a New York financial expert who has advised states and cities on their money problems: "All poverty programs should be funded by the Federal Government; otherwise...
...other eligibility standards have been steadily made more generous. In 1936, 534,000 people collected a total of $21.3 million in welfare payments from Washington. Today the Federal Government pays $7 billion to 11 million recipients. A tightening of rules is calculated to remove 400,000 families from the AFDC rolls in fiscal 1982 and reduce benefits slightly for another 287,000, saving Washington $1 billion...
...make up the shortfall by cutting overhead; officials of the Pennsylvania department of public welfare, for instance, discovered that the new, simplified regulations will allow them to get rid of a computer-run management system. Estimated saving: $4.3 million. Many officials, however, find it cruelly ironic that the new AFDC regulations of the pro-family Reagan Administration discourage marriage. Under the new regulations, for example, a poor man who marries a poor woman with children will forfeit nearly all benefits. Says California Assemblywoman Maxine Waters: "I'm telling anyone who will listen that there's no point...
...federal Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, $91 in food stamps and $39 in earned-income tax credits, leaving her family's total income 10% below the poverty line. Under the Reagan program, her food stamps would be cut to $75 and after four months her AFDC grant would be wiped out entirely, reducing her income to 31% below the poverty line. On top of that, she would no longer qualify for Medicaid benefits, and any assistance she might get from a federal program to help the poor buy fuel to heat their homes would be reduced...