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Some 1,200 cases of defaulting students have been turned over to U.S. attorneys for collection, and others are being tracked down with the aid of IRS files and post office and motor vehicle records. It has been discovered that 6,783 federal employees, including 317 who work for HEW, are among the defaulters. They are now being dunned, though they have not been fired. But even as it cracks down, the Administration is adding to the problem. Carter has proposed a $1.5 billion program to extend college student aid to cover most of the nation's middle-class families...
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...
...HEW administers a variety of other programs that, however worthy in concept, have degenerated into boondoggles and in some cases may do more harm than good. Every President since Eisenhower has tried to cut back the impact aid program, which was originally designed to help communities with military installations. The idea was to compensate such localities, since they could not tax the bases but had to provide many services for federal employees. Gradually, the scope of the program has expanded to give aid to communities?rich or poor ?with just about any kind of federal facility. There...
...1960s HEW'S National Institute of Mental Health developed community mental health centers to help alleviate overcrowding in state mental hospitals. The Federal Government assumed that patients would lead more normal lives in a community setting and thus have a better chance of making a recovery, but just the opposite seems to have happened. Thousands of them have been placed by states in rundown housing, where they are unable to care for themselves and get no follow-up treatment. Certain areas have become saturated with these patients, who are often resented and feared by their neighbors. After releasing the results...
Much of the blame for programs that misfire is placed on the bureaucracy itself. In their commendable determination to enforce the letter of the law, officials become too addicted to formulas, too oblivious of ends in their concentration on means. Says Carl Coleman, a public affairs officer in HEW'S regional office in Denver: "HEW gets the social engineers, the people they call do-gooders. They're committed, and they make a lot of mistakes because of their ardor." His favorite example: the West Coast bureaucrat who tried to ban father-son school banquets on the ground that they discriminated...