[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 43 (Monday, March 4, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 8288-8289]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-4870]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Federal Financial Participation in State Assistance Expenditures; 
Federal Matching Shares for Aid to Families With Dependent Children, 
Medicaid, and Aid to Needy Aged, Blind, or Disabled Persons for October 
1, 1996 Through September 30, 1997

AGENCY: Office of the Secretary, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Federal Percentages and Federal Medical Assistance 
Percentages for Fiscal Year 1997 have been calculated pursuant to the 
Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from 
October 1, 1996 through September 30, 1997. This notice announces the 
calculated ``Federal percentages'' and ``Federal medical assistance 
percentages'' that we will use in determining the amount of Federal 
matching in State welfare and medical expenditures. The table gives 
figures for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto 
Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern 
Mariana Islands. Programs under title XIX of the Act exist in each 
jurisdiction; title IV-A programs exist in all jurisdictions except 
American Samoa and the Northern Mariana Islands; programs under titles 
I, X, and XIV operate only in Guam and the Virgin Islands; while a 
program under title XVI (AABD) operates only in Puerto Rico. The 
percentages in this notice apply to State expenditures for assistance 
payments and medical services (except family planning which is subject 
to a higher matching rate). The statute provides separately for Federal 
matching of administrative costs.
    Sections 1101(a)(8) and 1905(b) of the Act, as revised by section 
9528 of Public Law 99-272, require the Secretary of Health and Human 
Services to publish these percentages each year. The Secretary is to 
figure the percentages, by formulas in sections 1101(a)(8) and 1905(b) 
of the Act, from the Department of Commerce's statistics of average 
income per person in each State and in the National as a whole. The 
percentages are within upper and lower limits given in those two 
sections of the Act. The statute specifies the percentages to be 
applied to Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and 
the Northern Mariana Islands.
    The ``Federal percentages'' are for Aid to Families with Dependent 
Children (AFDC) and aid to needy aged, blind, or disabled persons, and 
the ``Federal medical assistance percentages'' are for Medicaid. 
However, under section 1118 of the Act, States with approved Medicaid 
plans may claim Federal matching funds for expenditures under approved 
State plans for these other programs using either the Federal 
percentage or the Federal medical assistance percentage. These States 
may claim at the Federal medical assistance percentage without regard 
to any maximum on the dollar amounts per recipient which may be counted 
under paragraphs (1) and (2) of sections 3(a), 403(a), 1003(a), 
1403(a), and 1603(a) of the Act.

DATES: The percentages listed will be effective for each of the 4 
quarter-year periods in the period beginning October 1, 1996 and ending 
September 30, 1997.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Mr. Gene Moyer, Office of Health Policy, Office of the Assistant 
Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, Room 442E Hubert H. Humphrey 
Building, 200 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, D.C. 20201, Telephone 
(202) 690-7861.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program Nos. 93.560--
Assistance Payments--Maintenance Assistance (State Aid); 93.778--
Medicaid Assistance Program)

    Dated: February 26, 1996.
Donna Shalala,
Secretary of Health and Human Services.

     Federal Percentages and Federal Medical Assistance Percentages,    
     Effective October 1, 1996-September 30, 1997 (Fiscal Year 1997)    
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                                                               Federal  
                                                  Federal      medical  
                     State                      percentages   assistance
                                                             percentages
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Alabama.......................................       65.00        69.54 
Alaska........................................       50.00        50.00 
American Samoa................................       50.00      * 50.00 
Arizona.......................................       61.70        65.53 
Arkansas......................................       65.00        73.29 
California....................................       50.00        50.23 
Colorado......................................       50.00        52.32 
Connecticut...................................       50.00        50.00 
Delaware......................................       50.00        50.00 
District of Columbia..........................       50.00        50.00 
Florida.......................................       50.88        55.79 
Georgia.......................................       57.24        61.52 
Guam..........................................       50.00      * 50.00 
Hawaii........................................       50.00        50.00 
Idaho.........................................       64.41        67.97 
Illinois......................................       50.00        50.00 
Indiana.......................................       57.31        61.58 
Iowa..........................................       58.83        62.94 
Kansas........................................       54.30        58.87 
Kentucky......................................       65.00        70.09 
Louisiana.....................................       65.00        71.36 
Maine.........................................       59.69        63.72 
Maryland......................................       50.00        50.00 
Massachusetts.................................       50.00        50.00 
Michigan......................................       50.22        55.20 
Minnesota.....................................       50.00        53.60 
Mississippi...................................       65.00        77.22 
Missouri......................................       55.60        60.04 
Montana.......................................       65.00        69.01 
Nebraska......................................       54.59        59.13 
Nevada........................................       50.00        50.00 
New Hampshire.................................       50.00        50.00 
New Jersey....................................       50.00        50.00 
New Mexico....................................       65.00        72.66 
New York......................................       50.00        50.00 
North Carolina................................       59.88        63.89 
North Dakota..................................       64.14        67.73 
Northern Mariana Islands......................       50.00      * 50.00 
Ohio..........................................       54.76        59.28 
Oklahoma......................................       65.00        70.01 
Oregon........................................       56.14        60.52 
Pennsylvania..................................       50.00        52.85 
Puerto Rico...................................       50.00      * 50.00 
Rhode Island..................................       50.00        53.90 
South Carolina................................       65.00        70.43 
South Dakota..................................       60.99        64.89 
Tennessee.....................................       60.64        64.58 
Texas.........................................       58.40        62.56 
Utah..........................................       65.00        72.33 
Vermont.......................................       56.72        61.05 
Virgin Islands................................       50.00      * 50.00 
Virginia......................................       50.00        51.45 
Washington....................................       50.00        50.52 
West Virginia.................................       65.00        72.60 
Wisconsin.....................................       54.44       59.00  

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Wyoming.......................................       55.42       59.88  
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* For purposes of section 1118 of the Social Security Act, the          
  percentage used under titles I, X, XIV, and XVI and Part A of title IV
  will be 75 per centum.                                                


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