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...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...
...AFDC, the typical applicant stays on the rolls for only 23 months, according to HEW figures, though four out of ten return a second time. Moreover, AFDC families are not all large. Their average is four persons, compared with 4.2 in the general population. In two-thirds of the welfare families, all the children had the same parents; an estimated 31% of all children getting aid were born illegitimately...
Even when some of the myths are cleared away, however, the fact remains that AFDC is at the heart of the problem. The crisis in welfare
...month for everything. I get three AFDC checks, two for $125 and the other for the rest. First thing I buy is food stamps. When the next check comes, I pay the rent right away. The laundry allowance is $7.70 a month. With seven kids, I spend close to that in a week. I have a phone. It's not allowed in the budget, but it's a necessity-one of my children had heart surgery, another is retarded. When you have to take the kids to the doctor, you have to go to the welfare office...