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...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...
WELFARE. To many Americans, welfare payments are synonymous with HEW and its problems. Today the main components of federal welfare?Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Medicaid, food stamps and Supplemental Security Income (SSI)?distribute more than $30 billion to some 30 million Americans. The vast program is unfair and inefficient. Benefits vary widely across the country, in part because the states share the cost of the program, and their contributions differ dramatically. A family of four in Mississippi, for instance, receives $60 a month; in New York, it would get $450. Fathers are encouraged to desert, since...
...Families with Dependent Children program (AFDC)?1.5 million welfare mothers...