PUBLIC WELFARE see also Social Security Act

Amendments

AFDC: replace with program emphasizing work and need-based supplements, and help children and parents obtain education and job training (H.R. 3644), 34631 [9DE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), 35872, 35881-35894 [16DE]

Job Training Act: establish incentive bonus for placement (S. 514), 4358 [26FE]

Social Security: in-kind assistance to SSI and AFDC recipients (S. 1793), 28406, 28434 [20OC]

Analyses

Food Stamp Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 3337), 24946-24950 [23SE]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act (S. 1673), 23763 [10SE]

Articles and editorials

Almost Poor—Holding Jobs, Seeking Careers—A Fifth of America Living on the Margin, 30477 [2NO]

Almost Poor—Working Hard, Staying in Place—Two Families' Common Ground in Hardship, Hope, 30478-30479 [2NO]

Anti-Welfare Woman Saluted for Motivating 10,000 to Pride and Work, 22820 [6AU]

Can Army of Unskilled Youth Be Redeemed?, 26743 [6OC]

Chance to Change Our Welfare Ways, 4543 [3MR]

Family Welfare Reform Is Trojan Horse, 35837 [16DE]

Human Analysis of Welfare System, 5674 [12MR]

Incentives—Specter's Plan Offers Hand to Welfare Recipients, 749 [6JA]

Job Isn't Always a Solution—Some Can't Afford to Work, 26741 [6OC]

Kenilworth Management Corp., 7766 [2AP]

Minimum Wage a Welfare Trap, 5871 [17MR]

New Reagan Policy To Cut Benefits for the Aged, Blind and Disabled, 28406 [20OC]

Poverty, 7767, 7768 [2AP]

Provide Jobs for Those on Welfare in Puerto Rico, 20291 [20JY]

Scienceless to Homeless, 4538 [3MR]

1,750 Homeless Offered Chance for New Homes, 19580 [13JY]

U.S., Facing Criticism, Drops Plan To Cut Benefits for Poor, 28407 [20OC]

Welfare Reform, 35676 [15DE]

Welfare Strait, 17900-17902 [26JN]

Welfare's Trojan Horse, 35690 [15DE]

WIC Mothers and Children, 13000 [19MY]

Work or Welfare Dilemma Difficult, 5714 [13MR]

Bills and resolutions

AFDC: elimination of 100-hour rule and work requirements for recipients (see H.R. 795)

———emergency housing payments to homeless families (see H.R. 1906)

———quality control review procedures (see H.R. 3160)

———promote welfare of homeless families (see H.R. 3366)

———replace with program emphasizing work and need-based supplements, and help children and parents obtain education and job training (see H.R. 3644)

———replace with a revised program which will serve to reduce poverty among children and their families (see H.R. 1255)

———State comprehensive work program with an organized intake and registration process (see H.R. 3692)

———State employment, training, or education programs for participants (see H.R. 1696)

———State workfare program (see H.R. 916)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see H.R. 1831)

AFDC Employment and Training Reorganization Act: enact (see S. 1655)

Benefits: State's workfare program participation as requirement for eligibility (see H.R. 598)

Dept. of HUD: prevent fraud and abuse in assistance programs (see S. 250)

Food relief: executive impoundment of appropriated funds (see H.R. 796, 929)

Food stamp plan: equitable treatment for State and local governments (see H.R. 657)

———reform (see H.R. 3337)

———treatment of income received by handicapped and disabled individuals (see H.R. 971)

Fresno County, CA: AFDC demonstration project (see S. 458)

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (see S. 1166)

Homeless: expedite and expand provision of emergency food relief (see H.R. 177)

Housing: authorize grants to States for construction or rehabilitation for AFDC families (see H.R. 1312)

———exclude from income calculation of elderly residents in public projects (see H.R. 2407)

———prohibit public housing agencies from using Federal funds for public relations activities (see H.R. 3041)

Indian Child Welfare Act: amend (see S. 1976)

Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act: enact (see S. 610)

Medicaid: require skilled nursing facilities to participate in program (see H.R. 159)

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (see H.R. 1831)

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: enact (see S. 1673)

Medicare: welfare of spouses of institutionalized individuals (see S. 598)

National School Lunch Act: improve distribution procedures for commodities donated for assistance (see H.R. 2496)

National Social Work Month: designate (see S.J. Res. 2)

Poverty: vouchers for child care services (see H.R. 1572)

Social Security: combined earnings (see S. 3)

———disregard certain assistance as income (see S. 1795)

———improve child support enforcement program and require States to establish work programs for AFDC families (see H.R. 3200)

———in-kind assistance to SSI and AFDC recipients (see S. 1793)

———taxation of in-kind assistance (see H.R. 3505)

States: establish comprehensive education, training, and employment programs in States for public assistance recipients (see H.R. 30)

Taxation: treatment of certain health and welfare benefit funds (see H.R. 2868)

U.S. Health Service: establish (see H.R. 2402)

Explanations

Social Security benefits (H.R. 203-214), 876-878 [7JA]

Factsheets

National Welfare Strategy: President Reagan, 2098 [28JA]

Hearings

Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry: nutrition of the homeless (S. 728, 812) (testimony), D225 [2AP]

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act (H.R. 558), D71 [19FE]

Committee on Finance: family welfare system (testimony), D252 [9AP]

———family welfare system (testimony from Barbara Blum, David Ellwood, Christopher Jencks, John Bode, Robert Helms, Charles Blakeney, Ronnie Blakeney, Robert Woodson, Leslie Lenkowski, Michael Novak, Jack Kammer, David Levy, Richard Nathan and Ginnie Nuta), D98 [2MR]

———improving existing family welfare system and promoting well-being of families with children (testimony from Douglas G. Glasgow, J.B. Hehir, Robert Greenstein, Michael N. Castle, Arthur J. Holland, Ann Klinger, and Dorothy V. Harris, David Liederman, Robert J. Fersh and Charles V. Bergstrom), D40 [2FE]

Committee on Hunger (Select): hunger among the homeless (testimony from Representative Foley and John Bode), D87 [25FE]

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: bonus payments to States that succeed in training and employing long-term welfare dependents (testimony from Michael Dukakis, Richard McAloon, Madeleine M. Kunin, Dawn Lawson, Ed Farris, Carmen Colon, John Jacob, Raul Yzaguirre and Leon H. Sullivan), D46 [3FE]

———bonus payments to States that succeed in training and employing long-term welfare dependents (testimony from John Horsley, Pierce Quinlan, and Stephen Heintz), D50 [4FE]

———incentive bonus to States which successfully train and employ long-term welfare dependents (S. 514) (testimony from Roger D. Semerad, Raymond C. Scheppach, and Donald A. Newberg), D123 [6MR]

———prohibit discrimination by recipients of Federal financial assistance (S. 557) (testimony), D218 [1AP]

Committee on Ways and Means: Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720) (testimony), D208 [30MR], D222 [1AP]

———welfare reform proposals, D72 [19FE]

———welfare reform proposals (testimony from Senator Moynihan and Stephen B. Heintz), D35 [28JA]

Letters

Counting noncash assistance when calculating public assistance: Representative Wyden and several Representatives, 28532 [20OC]

High school for AFDC recipients: Emily K. O'Hara, 27099 [8OC]

Low-Income Energy Assistance Program funding: several Senators, 35250 [11DE]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: Consortium for Citizens With Developmental Disabilities, 23764 [10SE]

Social Security attorney's fees: William Housman, 22702 [5AU]

Welfare reform initiative: Senator Chiles, 26196 [1OC]

Meetings

Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs: Urgent Relief for the Homeless Act (H.R. 558), D85 [25FE]

Committee on Education and Labor: Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720) (testimony), D304 [30AP]

Committee on Energy and Commerce: Medicare and Medicaid Patient and Program Protection Act (H.R. 1444), D248 [8AP]

Committee on Governmental Affairs: assistance to protect and improve the lives and safety of the homeless (S. 813), D218 [1AP]

Committee on Labor and Human Resources: incentive bonus to States which train and employ long-term welfare dependents, D164 [18MR]

Committee on Ways and Means: Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720), D230 [2AP], D235 [6AP]

Memorials of legislature

California, 26157 [1OC]

Illinois, 14187 [1JN], 16146 [16JN], 23080 [7AU]

Louisiana, 19381 [10JY]

Press releases

Chesebrough-Pond's urges private sector support for welfare reform legislation, 749 [6JA]

Remarks in House

AFDC: 100-hour work rule (H.R 795), 2182 [28JA]

———assist States to provide child care services to recipients (H.R. 2405), 12398 [13MY]

———employment training for recipients (H.R. 2245), 14426 [2JN]

———improving child support enforcement program and require States to establish work programs (H.R. 3200), 24032 [15SE], 34999, 35004 [10DE]

———payments to minor parents living away from home (H.R. 1129), 3445 [18FE], 3886 [19FE]

———replace program with a comprehensive program of mandatory child support and work training (S. 1511), 24032 [15SE]

———restructure (H.R. 1720), 6280 [19MR], 17899 [26JN], 24032 [15SE], 34999, 35004 [10DE], 35822-35906 [16DE]

———State employment, training, or education programs for participants (H.R. 1696), 6150 [18MR], 6250 [18MR]

———State work programs (H.R. 3200), 34999, 35004 [10DE], 35651 [15DE]

———uniform eligibility and benefit levels (H.R. 1831), 7086 [26MR]

Budget: effect of sequestration on Federal programs, 28797 [22OC]

Bureau of the Census: child care arrangements of working families, 13283 [20MY]

Child support: enforcement, 25434 [29SE]

Constitution: poverty and welfare, 10824-10834 [30AP]

Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act: enact (H.R. 437), 892 [7JA]

Fair Work Opportunities Act: enact (H.R. 30), 890 [7JA]

Families: problems, 34071 [3DE]

———reform assistance programs (H.R. 1255), 4127 [25FE]

Federal aid programs: budget reductions, 3178 [5FE]

FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter Program: funding (H.J. Res. 102), 2517 [3FE]

Food Stamp Plan: reform (H.R. 3337), 24946 [23SE]

Homeless: assistance, 4538-4544 [3MR], 19580 [13JY], 25907 [30SE]

Homeless Emergency Relief Act: enact (H.R. 274), 892 [7JA]

Improve benefits, 5674 [12MR]

Legislation: restriction on amendments, 33004 [20NO]

Medicaid: uniform eligibility and benefit levels (H.R. 1831), 7086 [26MR]

Medicaid Infant Mortality Act: enact (H.R. 1018), 2947 [4FE]

Medical care: anemia among children enrolled in WIC Special Supplemental Food Program, 27738 [13OC]

Medicare/medicaid: catastrophic illness insurance for aged and handicapped, 4932 [5MR]

National School Lunch Act: improve distribution procedures for commodities donated for assistance (H.R. 2496), 13679 [21MY]

Poverty: incidence among certain groups, 30477 [2NO]

———U.S. policy, 7763-7768 [2AP]

Puerto Rico: provision of jobs welfare recipients, 20290 [20JY]

Recipients: mandatory work-for-benefits participation, 35004 [10DE]

———profile, 28799 [22OC]

Reform, 3963 [24FE], 23453 [7AU], 29226 [27OC], 29509 [27OC], 29678 [28OC], 32077 [17NO], 32623 [18NO], 34576, 34577, 34579 [9DE]

———bipartisan plan, 22222 [4AU]

Social conditions: mother-only families, 24046 [15SE]

Social Security: improve child support enforcement program (H.R. 3200), 34999, 35004 [10DE], 35651 [15DE]

SSI: improve (H.R. 2795), 17888 [26JN]

———reductions in welfare benefits for aged and disabled citizens, 28531 [20OC]

Taxation: earned income credit, 33294 [1DE]

U.S. Health Service: establish (H.R. 2402), 12409 [13MY]

WIC: funding, 9570 [23AP], 25920 [30SE]

Remarks in Senate

AFDC Employment and Training Reorganization Act: enact (S. 1655), 23249 [7AU]

Agriculture: administration of commodity distribution program (S. 305), 1230 [13JA]

Budget: initiative, 26196 [1OC]

Coffee County, AL: reform, 17029 [23JN]

Employment: training programs, 5713 [13MR], 11806 [8MY]

Federal aid programs: quality control review procedures and standards in AFDC, medicaid, and food stamp programs (S. 1440), 17841 [26JN]

Food stamp plan: State participation, 9228 [22AP]

———tax on purchases, 9212-9214 [22AP]

Fresno County, CA: AFDC demonstration project (S. 458), 2891 [4FE]

Homecare Quality Assurance Act: enact (S. 1166), 11622 [7MY]

Homeless: food stamp deductions, 8700 [9AP]

Housing: third party payments for certain temporary facilities (S. 36), 476 [6JA]

Indian Child Welfare Act: amend (S. 1976), 36601-36608 [19DE]

Job Training Act: establish incentive bonus for placement (S. 514), 4360 [26FE]

Jobs for Employable Dependent Individuals Act: enact (S. 514), 3121 [5FE]

Los Angeles, CA,: Free Clinic anniversary, 34458 [9DE]

Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program: funding, 35248, 35250 [11DE]

Low-Income Opportunity Improvement Act: enact (S. 610), 4573 [3MR]

———enact (S. 610), unanimous-consent agreement, 4406 [26FE]

Medicaid: benefits for poor children and pregnant women (S. 422), 2329-2332 [29JA]

———welfare of spouses of institutionalized persons (S. 598), 6015 [18MR]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act: enact (S. 1673), 23754, 23764-23769 [10SE]

Permanent Housing for Homeless Families Act: enact (S. 37), 477 [6JA]

Public housing: tenant management (S. 243), 7433 [31MR]

Public Housing Resident Management Act: enact (S. 243), 689, 691 [6JA]

Readfare Act: enact (S. 1073), 9253 [22AP]

Reform, 35951 [17DE]

Social Security: disregard certain assistance as income (S. 1795), 28288 [16OC]

———high school for AFDC recipients (S. 1771), 27099 [8OC]

———in-kind assistance to SSI and AFDC recipients (S. 1793), 28406-28408 [20OC]

Temporary Emergency Food Assistance Program: executive impoundment of appropriated funds (S. 405), 2127 [28JA]

WIC: Special Supplemental Food Program funding, 13000 [19MY]

Reports

One Year To Go—Citizen Attitudes in New Hampshire, 4543 [3MR]

Reports filed

Emergency Assistance for the Homeless: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 177) (H. Rept. 100-8), 4449 [2MR]

———Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs (H.R. 558) (H. Rept. 100-10), 4449 [2MR]

Food Stamp Program Reform: Committee on Agriculture (H.R. 3337) (H. Rept. 100-396), 29209 [26OC]

Reports to constituents

Hamilton, Lere H.: Welfare Reform, 24263 [16SE]

Seminars

Community of Self-Reliance: American Enterprise Institute, 7765 [2AP]

Statements

AFDC Experience: welfare recipients, 35838 [16DE]

Poverty: Barbara Blum, 7766 [2AP]

———Kimi Gray, 7766 [2AP]

Reform: Gary Bauer, 19567 [13JY]

Restructuring Unemployment Insurance Program: Representative Clinger, 36647 [19DE]

WIC Funding: Ray Yip, 25921 [30SE]

Studies

Fair Work Opportunities: Manpower Demonstrative Research Corp., 891 [7JA]

Summaries

Fair Work Opportunities Act (H.R. 30), 891 [7JA]

Family Welfare Reform Act (H.R. 1720), 35826 [16DE]

Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act (S. 1673), 23763 [10SE]

Purpose of Indian Child Welfare Act Amendments, 36607 [19DE]

SSI Improvements (H.R. 2795), 17889 [26JN]

Tables

AFDC disallowances, 17841 [26JN]

AFDC payment error rates, 17841 [26JN]

Food stamp error rate fiscal sanctions, 17841 [26JN]

Food stamp payment error rates, 17841 [26JN]

Social Security cost of living adjustment payments, 30691 [4NO]

Welfare reform bills (S. 1511; H.R. 1720, 3200), 24032 [15SE]

Texts of

H.R. 274, Homeless Emergency Relief Act, 893 [7JA]

H.R. 437, Emergency Aid to Homeless Families Act, 894 [7JA]

H.R. 1129, payments to minor parents living away from home, 3887 [19FE]

H.R. 1917, Social Security computation rule application to workers attaining age 65 in or after 1982, 29227 [27OC]

H.R. 3644, restructure AFDC, 35847-35872 [16DE]

S. 36, third party payments for certain temporary housing, 477 [6JA]

S. 37, Permanent Housing for Homeless Families Act, 478 [6JA]

S. 243, Public Housing Resident Management Act, 690 [6JA]

S. 458, AFDC demonstration project in Fresno County, CA, 2892 [4FE]

S. 514, Jobs for Employable Dependent Individuals Act, 3122-3123 [5FE]

S. 1655, AFDC Employment and Training Reorganization Act, 23250-23263 [7AU]

S. 1673, Medicaid Home and Community Quality Services Act, 23755-23763 [10SE]

S. 1771, high school for AFDC recipients, 27099 [8OC]

S. 1976, Indian Child Welfare Act amendments, 36602-36607 [19DE]