PUBLIC WELFARE see also Social Security Act

Amendments

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act: enact (S. 2301), 27742, 27766 [28SE], 30875, 31019 [9OC]

Analyses

Domestic Food Assistance Act (S. 3017), 26614-26616 [24SE]

Primary Health Care Act (S. 2308), 19726-19728 [28JN]

Articles and editorials

Bonker Medical Bill Worthy of Support, 31719 [10OC]

Can It Be? A Path Out of Poverty, 29766 [4OC]

Changing Habits Through Nutrition Education, 229 [24JA]

Denver's Warren Village—How Neighbors Are Helping Neighbors Get Off Welfare, 5390 [13MR]

Disability Disaster, 31748 [10OC]

Disincentive and the Liberal Welfare State, 15517 [7JN]

Disturbing Report on Hunger, 324 [24JA]

Do More Than Tinker With Jobless Benefits, 1752 [2FE]

Embarrassment of Riches for the States, 12683 [17MY]

Feminine Face of Poverty (series), 6448-6450 [22MR]

High Cost of Health Care—We Are All To Blame, 9048 [11AP]

Highlights of WIC History, 237 [24JA]

Last Campaign—Child Support and Poverty, 6768-6770 [27MR]

Look at 3 Urban WIC Programs, 230 [24JA]

Misers of Capitol Hill—Congress' Spendthrift Image Is a Bad Rap, 953 [30JA]

Mobile WIC Teams Go Where the Need Is, 236 [24JA]

Navajo Managers Reinforce Tradition, 235 [24JA]

New Census Bureau Survey Shows One-Third of U.S. Population Participating in Government Programs, 29756 [4OC]

Nowhere To Go but the Porch, 11939 [10MY]

Number Living at Poverty Level Rising Sharply, 3815 [29FE], 29755 [4OC]

Other City—New York's Homeless, 1327 [1FE]

Profile of the Homeless, 1329 [1FE]

Questions and Answers on WIC, 228 [24JA]

Reagan's Safety Net Sags—It's Not a Soft Landing for Minnesota's Working Poor, 24326-24328 [5SE]

Rise in Poverty Level From '79 to '82 Is Found in U.S., 3815 [29FE], 29754 [4OC]

Ruminations Inspired by a Medicare Card, 15759 [11JN]

Setting Up a Multi-County WIC Program, 234 [24JA]

States and Communities Remain Cool to President's ``Workfare'' Programs, 5818 [15MR]

Teamwork Helps Prevent Vendor Abuse, 236 [24JA]

To Pineville, KY, 228 [24JA]

Welfare Mercedes, 15983 [12JN]

Welfare to Paid Employment Dilemma, 12357 [15MY]

What Rome Never Learned About Welfare, 11029 [3MY]

Who'll Mind America's Children?, 7096 [29MR]

Why There's No Welfare Fat Left To Trim, 9776-9777 [24AP]

WIC Celebrates Its 10th Anniversary, 226 [24JA]

WIC in Rural Colorado, 232 [24JA]

Woman, 50, Feels Fortunate To Be on Snow Removal Crew, 514 [26JA]

Bills and resolutions

Adoption, Assistance, and Child Welfare Act: foster care matching funds (see S. 2928)

AFDC: comprehensive work program for recipients (see S. 3056)

———determining benefits eligibility for adoptive individuals (see H.R. 6368)

———improve quality control standards and procedures (see H.R. 6295)

———prohibit payments to unmarried minor parents living away from home (see H.R. 5093)

———reverse present upward trend in poverty rate (see H.R. 4920)

———training and employment of recipients (see S. 2405)

Child support enforcement program (see S. 2207)

Children: care information and referral services (see H.R. 5145)

———reauthorizing certain nutrition programs (see S. 2722)

———supplemental food programs (see S. 2617)

Commission on Poverty Definition Reform: establish (see H.J. Res. 618)

Courts: civil penalties for false claims and statements (see H.R. 5509)

Domestic Food Assistance Act: enact (see S. 3017)

Follow Through program: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 5145, 5885)

Food stamps: cost reduction and improvement of program (see S. 2607, 2925)

———pilot project for redemption through uninsured financial institutions (see S. 2817; H.R. 5954)

———retention (see S. Res. 306)

———separate deductions allowable for dependent care expenses and excess shelter expenses for determining benefit levels (see S. 2637; H.R. 5180)

———State agencies' workfare program (see H.R. 5054)

———supplemental appropriations (see H.J. Res. 635)

Foster care: Federal matching funds (see S. 2928)

———State authority to use funds for child welfare services (see H.R. 6130)

Fuel costs: appropriations for low-income home energy assistance program (see H.R. 5620)

Head Start program: authorizing appropriations (see S. 2575; H.R. 5145, 5277, 5885)

Health care: maternal and child services block grant (see H.R. 4661)

Housing: projects for very low-income families or persons (see H.R. 5267, 5282, 5327)

Low-income home energy assistance program: authorizing appropriations (see H.R. 5620)

LSC: eligibility determination (see H.R. 4658, 4659)

Native American program: authorizing apppropriations (see H.R. 5885)

Nutrition: strengthening domestic programs (see S. 2607; H.R. 5151)

———WIC supplemental food program (see H.R. 4661)

Social services: block grants to States (see S. 2492; H.R. 4970)

SSI: continued payment of benefits to individuals who work despite severe medical impairment (see H.R. 6263)

———cost-of-living increase without regard to 3% threshold (see S. 2868, 2873, 2923)

———determining benefits eligibility for adoptive individuals (see H.R. 6368)

———notification of eligibility to certain disabled (see H.R. 6263)

———prevent reduction of benefits in case of support furnished a mentally handicapped living in another person's household (see H.R. 6232)

———program improvements (see S. 2569)

———requirements for notification of beneficiary relative to repayments (see H.R. 5072)

———reverse present upward trend in poverty rate (see H.R. 4920)

State and local governments: uniform audit requirements (see H.R. 4821)

States: counter effects of an imbalance in Federal tax/Federal benefit ratio (see H.R. 4823)

WIC: supplemental food program (see H.R. 4661)

Essays

Education of the Urban Poor: Senator Moynihan (excerpt), 29769 [4OC]

Interviews

Export jobs, import welfare: June M. Collier with USA Today, 12631 [17MY]

Letters

Food stamp amendments: Dept. of Agriculture, 23838 [10AU]

Home health services: David A. Stockman, 27768 [28SE]

Medicaid provisions: George C. Wallace, Governor of Alabama, 12689 [17MY]

———Harry R. Hughes, Governor of Maryland (sundry), 12681, 12685 [17MY]

———National Conference of State Legislatures, 12678 [17MY]

———National Governors' Association, 12679 [17MY]

———62 organizations, 12678 [17MY]

———U.S. Conference of Mayors, 12679 [17MY]

Performance of child support enforcement agencies: GAO, 627 [26JA]

Use of Federal job training funds to offset county welfare costs in Los Angeles, CA, 4841 [7MR]

Lists

Organizations supporting social service block grant program funding increases, 7096 [29MR]

Memorials of legislature

California, 7373 [2AP], 25010 [12SE], 25184 [12SE], 29612 [3OC], 29858 [4OC]

Guam, 1675 [2FE]

Louisiana, 20703 [24JY], 21385 [27JY]

Nebraska, 10343 [30AP]

Virginia, 11119 [7MY]

Opinions

Joanne Fischer v. Dept. of Public Welfare, 5223 [13MR]

Outlines

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act (H.R. 4920), 5680 [15MR]

Petitions

Cost-of-living increases: Andrew C. Garza, 25560 [17SE]

Public housing: New York, NY, City Council, 8523 [10AP]

Social programs: International Woodworkers of America, 15612 [11JN]

Remarks in House

AFDC: amend laws relative to unmarried minor parents, 734 [30JA]

———impact of budget cuts, 7287 [2AP]

———prohibit payment to unmarried minor parents who are living away from home (H.R. 5093), 4976 [8MR], 5178 [12MR]

———quality control program fiscal sanctions, 30272 [4OC]

———reform (H.R. 6162), 24175 [10AU]

AFDC Error Reduction and Quality Control Improvement Act: enact (H.R. 6295), 26903 [25SE]

Aged: optional pharmaceutical assistance program under medicaid program (H.R. 5977), 20413 [29JN]

———reduce paperwork required for benefits and services (H.R. 5955), 20374 [29JN]

Alaska: food stamp pilot program for rural areas (H.R. 5181), 5870 [19MR]

Austin, Helen C.: honored by National Association of Social Workers, 15645 [11JN]

Benefits: amend laws relative to unmarried minor parents, 734 [30JA]

———repayment policies of SSA in cases of alleged overpayment (H.R. 5072), 5074 [8MR]

Budget proposal: effects on women and children, 1959 [6FE]

Child welfare services: funding, 18621 [25JN]

Food Stamp Act: amend (H.R. 5179), 5865 [19MR]

Head Start and Human Services Act: amend (H.R. 5885), 18740, 18742 [26JN], 18746 [29JN], 18747 [23JY]-18748 [26JN], 31764 [10OC]

Health care: cost, 9048 [11AP]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act: enact (S. 2301), 31019 [9OC]

Hunger Relief Act: enact (H.R. 5151), 21956 [2AU]

Los Angeles, CA: use of Federal job training funds to offset county welfare costs, 4841 [7MR]

Medicaid: 3-percent penalty, 16328 [13JN]

Medicare: ambulette services (H.R. 6274), 26193 [19SE]

———amend definition of term ``physician'' (H.R. 5641), 11956 [10MY]

———anniversary of legislation enactment, 24089 [10AU]

———beneficiary law, 20396 [29JN]

———coverage of occupational therapy, 9801 [24AP]

———reimbursement to hospitals, 1060 [31JA]

———prohibit reevalutation of hospital facilities and equipment for depreciation and interest purposes (H.R. 5195), 6327 [21MR]

———reimbursements, 19463 [27JN]

Medicare Long-Term Care Act: enact (H.R. 5726), 14354 [24MY]

Medicare/Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act: enact, 15975 [12JN]

Multiple Sector Health Care Strategy Act: enact (H.R. 6383), 30247 [4OC]

Neutrality in Federal Expenditures Act: enact (H.R. 4828), 2665 [9FE]

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act: enact (H.R. 4920), 5678-5685 [15MR]

Social welfare organizations: gift and estate tax deduction (H.R. 5138), 5580 [14MR]

SSI Equitable Improvements and Reform Act: enact (H.R. 5341), 1775 [2FE], 7618 [3AP], 11936 [10MY], 12097 [14MY]

Swing bed program: maintain quality level (H.R. 6367), 28797 [2OC]

Unemployed retraining services for (H.R. 4738), 1762 [2FE]

Unemployment issues, 2652 [9FE]

Remarks in Senate

Child support: improve enforcement program, 626 [26JA], 10494 [1MY]

———improve enforcement program (S. 2207), 208-215 [24JA], 903 [30JA]

———improve enforcement program (S. 4325), appointment of conferees, 16655 [15JN]

Community block grant program: extend, 29750-29778 [4OC]

Dept. of HUD: making urgent supplemental appropriation (H.J. Res. 517), 6734 [27MR]

Domestic Commodity and Food Assistance Act: enact (S. 17), 223 [24JA]

Domestic Food Assistance Act: enact (S. 3017), 26614-26618, 26629 [24SE], 29847 [4OC]

———enact (S. 3017), placed on calendar, 30709 [5OC]

Emergency food and shelter: tribute to certain organizations (S. Res. 292), 223 [24JA]

Emergency jobs expenditures: distribution under Public Law 98-8, 11795 [10MY]

Food assistance programs: maintain as national programs (S. Res. 306), 55 [23JA], 2273 [8FE]

Food Stamp Redemption Act: introduction (S. 2954), 23837 [10AU]

Food stamps: modify dependent care and excess shelter expense deductions (S. 2637), 10897 [3MY]

———pilot project for redemption through uninsured financial institutions (S. 2817), 19656 [28JN]

Foster care: extend conditional ceiling on Federal matching funds (S. 2928), 23325 [9AU]

Health care: economically disadvantaged, 13300 [22MY]

Health Maintenance Organization Act: enact (S. 2311), 2524 [9FE], 19716, 19717 [28JN]

———introduction (S. 2311), 2524 [9FE]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act: enact (S. 2301), 2507 [9FE], 15670 [11JN], 27766-27770 [28SE]

———enact (S. 2301), House amendments, 30808-30811 [9OC]

Homeless: rehabilitation of structures to house (S.J. Res. 223), 1326, 1329 [1FE]

Legal services: improve for indigents (S. 2420), 5344 [13MR]

Low-income home energy assistance: reauthorization (S. 2565), 30633 [5OC]

Maternal and child health block grants: funding, 9101-9108 [12AP]

Medicaid: modify provisions, 12677, 12680-12694 [17MY]

National Health Service Corps Act: introduction (S. 2281), 2479 [9FE]

Postal Service: prohibit fees for information provided in child support enforcement cases, 20595 [24JY]

Poverty: feminization, 6448 [22MR]

Primary health care: block grant programs, 2521 [9FE]

Primary Health Care Act: enact (S. 2308), 19724, 19726, 19728 [28JN]

Reagan, President: impact of budget on social programs, 7883 [4AP]

Refugees: effectiveness of resettlement in U.S., 1051 [31JA]

Social services: funding under block grant program (S. 2492), 7095 [29MR]

SSI: reform (S. 2569), 9275, 9281 [12AP]

Unemployed: health care benefits, 8661-8673, 8728 [11AP]

WIC program: anniversary, 225 [24JA]

Workfare: welfare compensation for community work, 514 [26JA]

Reports

AFDC: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5362) (H. Rept. 98-664), 8347 [9AP]

Child Support Enforcement Program Improvement: committee of conference (H.R. 4325) (H. Rept. 98-925), 21979 [1AU]

Distribution of Public Law 98-8 Emergency Jobs Expenditures: GAO, 11795-11804 [10MY]

Establishment of Home and Community Based Health Program (S. 2301) (S. Rept. 98-933), 9252 [12AP]

Health and Health Care in New York City—How Are We Doing?: Bruce C. Vladeck, 5070 [8MR]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act (S. 2301): Committee on Labor and Human Resources (Senate) (excerpt), 27767 [28SE]

Income Withholding for the Child Support Enforcement Program: Committee on Finance (S. Rept. 98-387), 8425 [9AP]

Indian Health Care Improvement Act Amendment and Reauthorization: Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs (H.R. 4567) (H. Rept. 98-763), 12321 [15MY]

National Health Services Corps: Committee on Labor and Human Resources (S. 2281) (S. Rept. 98-392), 9252 [12AP]

National Policy for the Homeless Mentally Ill: American Psychiatric Association Task Force, 25516 [14SE]

Programs Under Domestic Volunteer Service Act: committee of conference (S. 1129) (H. Rept. 98-679), 9537 [12AP]

Routine Home Care Payment Rates: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5386) (H. Rept. 98-1100), 27652 [28SE]

Social Security Act Extension Regarding Foster Care and Child Welfare Resource Centers Establishment: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 6266) (H. Rept. 98-1048), 26589 [24SE]

SSI Assets Verification for Benefits: Committee on Ways and Means (H.R. 5362) (H. Rept. 98-664), 8347 [9AP]

Statements

Food Stamp Redemption: National Grocers Association, 23837 [10AU]

Health Care for Economically Disadvantaged: Harvey Sloane, 13300-13302 [22MY]

SSI Equitable Improvements and Reform: Older Women's League, 12097 [14MY]

Summaries

AFDC Error Reduction and Quality Control Improvement Act (H.R. 6295), 26904 [25SE]

Health Care Benefits for Unemployed Under H.R. 2163, 8729 [11AP]

Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act as Amended (S. 2301), 27768 [28SE]

Improvements in Legal Services for Indigents (S. 2420), 5345 [13MR]

Making It on Their Own—From Refugee Sponsorship to Self-Sufficiency: National Council of Churches, 1052 [31JA]

Medicare Long-Term Care Act (H.R. 5726), 14355 [24MY]

Multiple Sector Health Care Strategy Act, (H.R. 6383), 30247 [4OC]

Omnibus Anti-Poverty Act (H.R. 4920): health related provisions, 5684 [15MR]

SSI Equitable Improvement and Reform Amendments (H.R. 5341), 7620 [3AP]

Tables

Central States, southeast and southwest areas health and welfare and pension funds, 30742 [5OC]

Formula for allocation of funds under low-income home energy assistance program, 29754 [4OC]

Testimonies

Economic Distress: Francesco Cantarella, 1159 [31JA]

Texts of

H.R. 5093, prohibit AFDC payment to unmarried minor parents who are living away from hme, 5178 [12MR]

H.R. 5179, amend Food Stamp Act, 5865 [19MR]

H.R. 5885, Head Start and Human Services Act amendments, 18740-18742 [26JN]

H.R. 5977, optional pharmaceutical assistance program to the aged under medicaid program, 20413 [29JN]

S. 2207, improve child support enforcement program, 208-214 [24JA]

S. 2281, National Health Service Corps Act, 2480 [9FE]

S. 2301, Health Services, Preventive Health Services, and Home and Community-Based Services Act, 2508-2510 [9FE], 27771 [28SE]

S. 2308, Primary Health Care Act, 2521 [9FE], 19724-19726 [28JN]

S. 2311, Health Maintenance Organization Act, 2525 [9FE]

S. 2492, increase in funding of social services block grant program, 7096 [29MR]

S. 2569, SSI reform, 9276-9281 [12AP]

S. 2637, modify food stamp, dependent care, and excess shelter expense deductions, 10898 [3MY]

S. 2817, pilot project for redemption of food stamps through uninsured financial institutions, 19656 [28JN]

S. 2928, extend conditional ceiling on Federal matching funds for foster care, 23325 [9AU]

S. 2954, Food Stamp Redemption Act, 23837 [10AU]

S. 2970, issuance of certificate of guaranteed tax-exempt social security benefits, 24395 [6SE]

S. 3017, Domestic Food Assistance Act: introduction, 26616-26618 [24SE]

S. Res. 306, maintain food assistance programs as national programs, 54 [23JA]

S.J. Res. 223, rehabilitation of structures to house homeless, 1327 [1FE]

Transcripts

Dutch Treat, 60 Minutes, 10409 [1MY]