[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 91 (Thursday, May 9, 1996)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21187-21192]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-11628]



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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families


New and Pending Demonstration Project Proposals Submitted 
Pursuant to Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act: April 1996

AGENCY: Administration for Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists new proposals for welfare reform and 
combined welfare reform/Medicaid demonstration projects submitted to 
the Department of Health and Human Services for the month of April, 
1996. It includes both those proposals being considered under the 
standard waiver process and those being considered under the 30 day 
process. Federal approval for the proposals has been requested pursuant 
to section 1115 of the Social Security Act. This notice also lists 
proposals that were previously submitted and are still pending a 
decision and projects that have been approved since April 1, 1995. The 
Health Care Financing Administration is publishing a separate notice 
for Medicaid only demonstration projects.
    Comments: We will accept written comments on these proposals. We 
will, if feasible, acknowledge receipt of all comments, but we will not 
provide written responses to comments. We will, however, neither 
approve nor disapprove new proposals under the standard application 
process for at least 30 days after the date of this notice to allow 
time to receive and consider comments. Direct comments as indicated 
below.

ADDRESSES: For specific information or questions on the content of a 
project contact the State contact listed for that project.

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    Comments on a proposal or requests for copies of a proposal should 
be addressed to: Howard Rolston, Administration for Children and 
Families, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Aerospace Building, 7th Floor 
West, Washington DC 20447. FAX: (202) 205-3598 PHONE: (202) 401-9220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

    Under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act (the Act), the 
Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) may approve research and 
demonstration project proposals with a broad range of policy 
objectives.
    In exercising her discretionary authority, the Secretary has 
developed a number of policies and procedures for reviewing proposals. 
On September 27, 1994, we published a notice in the Federal Register 
(59 FR 49249) that specified (1) the principles that we ordinarily will 
consider when approving or disapproving demonstration projects under 
the authority in section 1115(a) of the Act; (2) the procedures we 
expect States to use in involving the public in the development of 
proposed demonstration projects under section 1115; and (3) the 
procedures we ordinarily will follow in reviewing demonstration 
proposals. We are committed to a thorough and expeditious review of 
State requests to conduct such demonstrations.
    On August 16, 1995, the Secretary published a notice in the Federal 
Register (60 FR 42574) exercising her discretion to request proposals 
testing welfare reform strategies in five areas. Since such projects 
can only incorporate provisions included in that announcement, they are 
not subject to the Federal notice procedures. The Secretary proposed a 
30 day approval process for those provisions. As previously noted, this 
notice lists all new or pending welfare reform demonstration proposals 
under section 1115. Where possible, we have identified the proposals 
being considered under the 30 day process. However, the Secretary 
reserves the right to exercise her discretion to consider any proposal 
under the 30 day process if it meets the criteria in the five specified 
areas and the State requests it or concurs.

II. Listing of New and Pending Proposals for the Month of April, 
1996

    As part of our procedures, we are publishing a monthly notice in 
the Federal Register of all new and pending proposals. This notice 
contains proposals for the month of April, 1996.
    Project Title: California--Work Pays Demonstration Project 
(Amendment).
    Description: Would amend Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding 
provisions to: reduce benefit levels by 10% (but retaining the need 
level); reduce benefits an additional 15% after 6 months on assistance 
for cases with an able-bodied adult; time-limit assistance to able-
bodied adults to 24 months, and not increase benefits for children 
conceived while receiving AFDC.
    Date Received: 3/14/94.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Glen Brooks, (916) 657-3291.

    Project Title: California--Work Pays Demonstration Project 
(Amendment).
    Description: Would amend the Work Pays Demonstration Project by 
adding provisions to not increasing AFDC benefits to families for 
additional children conceived while receiving AFDC.
    Date Received: 11/9/94.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

    Project Title: California--Assistance payments Demonstration 
Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project (Amendment).
    Description: Would amend the Assistance Payments Demonstration 
Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding provisions 
to California to allow two additional AFDC benefit reductions: (1) 
reduce the Maximum Aid Payment (MAP) by 4.9 percent across-the-board 
statewide; and (2) divide California counties into two regions based on 
housing costs, and reduce both the Need Standard and the MAP in the 
region with the lower costs. In addition, the State is requesting 
blanket authority for future reductions in AFDC payment levels in 
conjunction with welfare reform state law changes.
    Date Received: 3/13/96.
    Type: AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

    Project Title: California--Assistance Payments Demonstration 
Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project (Amendment).
    Description: Would amend the Assistance Payments Demonstration 
Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding provisions 
to allow one additional provision: income of a senior parent living in 
the same household with a minor parent with a dependent child will not 
be deemed to the minor parent's child.
    Date Received: 3/13/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

    Project Title: Florida--Family Responsibility Act.
    Description: Statewide, would require dependent children and 
caretaker relatives under age 18 to remain in school; pay half the AFDC 
benefit increment for the first child conceived by an AFDC recipient 
and provide no cash benefits for a second or subsequent child; exclude 
from the AFDC budget child support payments for children subject to the 
family cap; require AFDC recipients not participating in JOBS or 
actively seeking employment to engage in 20 hours per week of community 
employment or work experience.
    Date Received: 10/4/95.
    Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Sallie P. Linton, (904) 921-5572.

    Project Title: Georgia--Jobs First Project.
    Description: In ten pilot counties, would replace AFDC payment with 
paid employment; extend transitional Medicaid to 24 months; eliminate 
100 hour employment rule for eligibility determination in AFDC--UP 
cases.
    Date Received: 7/5/94.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending (not previously published).
    Contact Person: Nancy Meszaros, (404) 657-3608.

    Project Title: Hawaii--Families Are Better Together.
    Description: Statewide, would eliminate 100-hour, attachment to the 
work force, 30 day unemployment and principal wage earner criteria for 
AFDC-UP families.
    Date Received: 5/22/95.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Patricia Murakami, (808) 586-5230.

    Project Title: Illinois--Six Month Paternity Establishment 
Demonstration.
    Description: In 20 counties, would require the establishment of 
paternity, unless good cause exists, within 6 months of application or 
redetermination as a condition of AFDC and Medicaid eligibility for 
both mother and child; would deny Medicaid to children age 7 and under, 
exclude children from filing rules, and exempt Department from making 
protective payments to eligible children, when custodial parent has not 
cooperated in

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establishing paternity; delegate the establishment of paternity in 
uncontested cases to caseworkers who perform assistance payment or 
social service functions under title IV-A or XX.
    Date Received: 7/18/95.
    Type: AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Karan D. Maxson, (217) 785-3300.

    Project Title: Indiana--Impacting Families Welfare Reform 
Demonstration--Amendments.
    Description: Statewide, proposes expansions and amendments to 
current demonstration to impose a lifetime 24-month limit on cash 
assistance and categorical Medicaid eligibility (12 months for resident 
alien); allow 1 month AFDC credit (to a maximum of 24 at any one time) 
for each 6 consecutive months full-time employment; count each month of 
AFDC receipt from another state within the previous 3 years as 1 month 
against the lifetime limit; restrict permissible ``specified 
relatives'' for AFDC children and minor parents; extend AFDC, Medicaid, 
and food stamp fraud disqualification penalties; establish 3 unexcused 
absences per year as the statewide definition of unacceptable school 
attendance; provide a voucher equal to 50% of assistance amount for 
family cap child for goods and services related to child care; divert 
AFDC grants to subsidize child care costs; establish an option for an 
employed AFDC recipient to receive guaranteed child care or an AFDC 
payment equal to the family's benefit before employment; require a 
child's mother to establish paternity as a condition of eligibility for 
the child and the caretaker; establish additional conditions of 
eligibility for AFDC; impose penalties for illegal drug use; base CWEP 
hours on the combined value of AFDC and Medicaid assistance; make JOBS 
volunteers subject to the same sanctions as mandatory participants; 
continue eligibility for AFDC recipients until countable income reaches 
100% of the federal poverty guidelines; expand voluntary quit 
definition and penalties; impose income limits on transitional Medicaid 
and child care and limit each to 12 months in a person's lifetime; with 
some exceptions, deny Medicaid under all coverage provisions to those 
determined ineligible as a result of AFDC welfare reform provisions; 
restrict Medicaid payments made to employees with employer's health 
care benefits to the lesser of the employee's insurance premium or the 
amount the state would otherwise pay; and require minor parents to live 
with a legally responsible adult and count the income and resources of 
non-parent adults.
    Additional provisions: Food Stamp recipients could be required to 
participate CWEP and job search; increase AFDC and Food Stamp penalties 
for non-compliance with CWEP and job search; require cooperation with 
child support as condition of eligibility for Food Stamps.
    Date Received: 12/14/95; Amendment received 2/6/96.
    Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: James H. Hmurovich, (317) 232-4704.

    Project Title: Kansas--Actively Creating Tomorrow for Families 
Demonstration.
    Description: Amended pending demonstration to provide that the 
demonstration would: replace $30 and 1/3 income disregard with 
continuous 40% disregard; disregard lump sum income, income and 
resources of children in school and interest income; count income and 
resources of adults, and at State option children, who receive SSI; 
exempt one vehicle without regard for equity value; eliminate 100-hour 
rule and work history requirements for UP cases; expand AFDC 
eligibility to pregnant women in 1st and 2nd trimesters; eliminate 
eight week job search limitation; allow alcohol and drug screening and 
treatment as a JOBS activity; eliminate the 20-hour work requirement 
limit for parents with children under 6; delay the effective date of 
changes in household composition; make work requirements in the AFDC 
and Food Stamp programs more uniform; and increase sanctions for not 
cooperating with child support enforcement activities and violations of 
employment and JOBS requirements.
    Date Received: 7/26/94; amendment received 4/30/96.
    Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: New (Amendment).
    Contact Person: Diane Dystra, (913) 296-3028.
    Project Title: Maine--Welfare to Work Program.
    Description: Statewide, would require caretaker relatives to sign a 
family contract; require participation in parenting classes and health 
care services; provide one-time vendor payments in lieu of AFDC for the 
purpose of obtaining/retaining employment; provide voucher payments to 
both married and unmarried minor parents; limit JOBS exemptions; expand 
eligibility for Transitional Medicaid and Child Care and replace 
sliding-scale fees with flat-rate fees; reduce Transitional Medicaid 
reporting requirements; disregard entire value of one vehicle; and 
apply any federal savings to the JOBS program services. In selected 
sites, implement ASPIRE-Plus, a subsidized employment program, would 
cash out food stamps, divert AFDC benefits and pass through all child 
support collected to families who participate in ASPIRE-Plus.
    Date Received: 9/20/95.
    Type: AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Susan Dustin, (207) 287-3104.

    Project Title: Maryland.
    Description: Statewide, would expand, with some modifications, 
previously approved Family Investment Program (FIP) pilot county 
provisions to be statewide and introduce new provisions: replace the 
current $90 and $30-and-one-third exclusions with a flat 20% earned 
income deduction, 50% for self-employed earned income; limit the child 
care disregard to $175 in all cases; allow case managers to set AFDC 
certification periods up to 1 year and require eligibility to be re-
established before the end of each certification period; modify JOBS 
exemption requirements; allow $2,000 in countable resources and exclude 
one vehicle per household, life insurance, and certain real property; 
count stepparent income only if it is more than 50% of the poverty 
level; allow non-custodial parents and stepparents to participate in 
JOBS; provide welfare avoidance grants of up to 3 months benefit amount 
(up to 12 months in special circumstances); allow IV-A child care funds 
in lieu of AFDC for families diverted from cash assistance; impose 
immediate full-family sanctions for fraud and for failure to cooperate 
with JOBS or child support enforcement requirements; reduce the adverse 
notification period to 5 days; eliminate the $50 child support pass-
through; allow only 1 assistance unit per family or payee; eliminate 
deprivation as an eligibility factor; change treatment of lump sums; 
eliminate JOBS assessment and employability plans; and modify JOBS 
program requirements.
    Date Received: 4/26/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: New.
    Contact Person: Kathy Cook, (410) 767-7055.

    Project Title: Michigan--To Strengthen Michigan Families 
Demonstration Project (Amendment).
    Description: Statewide, would require minor parents to live with 
their parent or other suitable adult; and require minor parents who 
have not graduated

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from high school to attend school as a condition of family eligibility.
    Date Received: 4/26/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: New.
    Contact Person: Dan Cleary, (517) 335-0015.

    Project Title: Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) 
(Amendment)
    Description: Would amend MFIP by adding Ramsey County as an MFIP 
site. MFIP provisions include: a consolidation of AFDC, Food Stamps, 
and the State's Family General Assistance program into one cash grant, 
with a single set of rules and procedures; eligibility based on net 
income only; an asset limit of $2,000, with an exemption for vehicles 
with a combined equity value of up to $4,500; elimination of the 100-
hour and work history rules for two-parent families; a benefit equal to 
the maximum grant increased by 20 percent, minus net income (net income 
excludes 38 percent of gross earnings), but benefits may not exceed the 
maximum grant level, which equals the combined value of AFDC and Food 
Stamps; child care is paid directly to the child care provider, up to 
the county maximum rate; a 10 percent grant reduction for non-compliant 
parents; mandatory participation in MFIP employment and training 
services for non-exempt, long-term recipients. MFIP operates in seven 
counties and the amendment would add Ramsey County.
    Date Received: 3/29/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Chuck Johnson (612) 297-4727.

    Project Title: Minnesota--Work First Program.
    Description: In pilot counties, would provide vendor payments in 
lieu of regular AFDC benefits for applicants' rent and utilities for up 
to six months; sanction for at least six months job-ready applicants 
who fail to comply with job search and other applicants who fail to 
participate in JOBS orientation; and require part-time CWEP of 
unemployed, nonexempt job-ready individuals who fail to participate in 
job search for 32 hours/week or who after eight weeks of job search are 
not employed for at least 32 hours/week or not self-employed with a net 
income equal to the family's AFDC benefit. Individuals who refuse to 
participate in CWEP or are terminated from a CWEP job would incur a 
whole family sanction and become ineligible for AFDC for at least six 
months. Non-job-ready participants would be assigned appropriate 
education and training. Post-placement services would be provided for 
up to 180 days and Transitional Child Care and Medicaid without regard 
to AFDC receipt in 3 of the 6 months preceding ineligibility.
    Date Received: 4/4/96.
    Type: AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: New.
    Contact Person: Gus Avenido, (612) 296-1884.

    Project Title: Minnesota--AFDC Barrier Removal Project.
    Description: Statewide, would expand AFDC-UP eligibility; treat 
minor parents living with a caretaker parent on AFDC as a separate 
filing unit and disregard the caretaker parents' earned income up to 
200 percent of the federal poverty guideline; disregard earned income 
of dependent children who are at least half-time students as well as 
all their savings deposited into an individual development account; 
increase the auto-equity limit to $4,500; cease recovering overpayments 
(once every two years per case) due to an individual's new employment 
resulting in ineligibility; and determine AFDC benefit amount for a 
family in which all members have resided in the State for less than 12 
months based on the payment standard of the state of immediate prior 
residence if less than Minnesota's.
    Date Received: 4/4/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: New.
    Contact Person: Ann Sessoms, (612) 296-0978.

    Project Title: New Hampshire--Earned Income Disregard Demonstration 
Project.
    Description: AFDC applicants and recipients would have the first 
$200 plus 1/2 the remaining earned income disregarded.
    Date Received: 9/20/93.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Avis L. Crane, (603) 271-4255.

    Project Title: New Hampshire--New Hampshire Employment Program and 
Family Assistance Program.
    Description: Statewide, would replace AFDC with Employment Program 
administered by both Employment Security Agency and Family Assistance 
Program; require job search and other employment-related activities for 
first 26 weeks of receipt followed by work-related activities for 26 
weeks; eliminate JOBS target group funding requirement and change JOBS 
reporting requirements; require recipients attending post-secondary or 
part-time vocational training to participate in work-related 
activities; eliminate JOBS services priority for volunteers; establish 
limits for provision of transportation and other JOBS services based on 
activity and local conditions; eliminate remoteness as exemption from 
JOBS; require non-custodial parents to participate in JOBS; increase 
earned income disregard to 50%; eliminate AFDC-UP eligibility 
requirements; allow transitional case management for up to one year; 
raise resource limit to $2,000 and exclude one vehicle and life 
insurance policies; pass through child support directly to family; take 
SSI income into account in determining eligibility/payment; eliminate 
conciliation and apply JOBS sanction of 50% of AFDC benefits for three 
months followed by no payment for three months, allowing option to 
increase initial sanction up to 100%; exempt pregnant women from JOBS 
only during third trimester; for minor parents cases, include in 
assistance unit any parent or sibling living in the home; eliminate 
gross income test; disregard educational grants; allow emergency 
assistance for families with employment-related barriers; allow State 
to eliminate the certificate option for child care and development 
block grant funds and use of these funds for capital improvement; 
eliminate ceiling on At Risk Child Care funds; provide that FFP for 
AFDC not be reduced during life of demonstration; fund computer system 
modifications at 80% FFP; require pregnant recipients to cooperate with 
child support; require that AFDC apply for Medicaid as a unit and not 
individually; eliminate requirement of receipt of AFDC for 3 of last 6 
months in order to receive transitional Medicaid; and allow State to 
require that some individuals be assigned to a managed care program; 
substitute outcome measures for JOBS participation rates; change 
participation requirements for parents with children under 6, UP 
recipients and minors; establish a medical deduction; increase the 
sanction for non-cooperation with child support; exempt individuals 
with significant employment barriers from JOBS; treat lump sum income 
and all real property, except a home, as a resource; and use 20% of 
gross earned income as a Medicaid disregard. Also contains various Food 
Stamp waivers.
    Date Received: 9/18/95.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Marianne Broshek, (603) 271-4442.

    Project Title: New Hampshire--New Hampshire Employment Program.
    Description: In three pilot sites, would require work after 6 
months of AFDC receipt; eliminate the exemption from JOBS for women in 
the second trimester

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of pregnancy; eliminate the JOBS exemption for caretaker of a child 
under 3 but not less than 1 year of age; replace the earned income 
disregard of $90 and $30 and \1/3\ with a 50% disregard which is not 
time-limited; raise the resource limit for recipients to $2,000; 
disregard full value of one vehicle per adult for applicants and 
recipients; apply a full family sanction voluntarily quitting a job or 
refusing to accept a job; apply a sanction of reducing the payment 
standard by 30% for one month for failure to comply with JOBS in the 
first instance, by 60% in the second instance for one month, and in the 
third instance apply a full-family sanction for three months or until 
compliance; and require non-custodial parents to participate in JOBS.
    Date Received: 10/6/95.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Marianne Broshek, (603) 271-4442.

    Project Title: Oklahoma--Welfare Self-Sufficiency Initiative.
    Description: In four pilots conducted in five counties each, would 
(1) extend transitional child care to up to 24 months; (2) require that 
all children through age 18 be immunized and require that responsible 
adults with preschool age children participate in parent education or 
enroll the children in Head Start or other preschool program; (3) not 
increase AFDC benefits after birth of additional children, but provide 
voucher payment for the increment of cash benefits that would have been 
received until the child is two years old; and (4) pay lesser of AFDC 
benefit for previous state of residence or Oklahoma's for 12 months for 
new residents.
    Date Received: 10/27/95.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Raymond Haddock, (405) 521-3076.

    Project Title: Pennsylvania--School Attendance Improvement Program.
    Description: In 7 sites, would require school attendance as 
condition of eligibility.
    Date Received: 9/12/94.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Patricia H. O'Neal, (717) 787-4081.

    Project Title: Pennsylvania--Savings for Education Program.
    Description: Statewide, would exempt as resources college savings 
bonds and funds in savings accounts earmarked for vocational or 
secondary education and disregard interest income earned from such 
accounts.
    Date Received: 12/29/94.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Patricia H. O'Neal, (717) 787-4081.

    Project Title: South Carolina--Family Independence Program.
    Description: Statewide, would, with exceptions, time limit AFDC 
benefits to families with able bodied adults to 24 months out of 120 
months, not to exceed 60 months in a lifetime; eliminate increase in 
AFDC benefit resulting from birth of children 10 or more months after 
the family begins AFDC receipt, but provide benefits to such children 
in the form of vouchers for goods and services permitting child's 
mother to participate in education, training, and employment-related 
activities; eliminate deprivation requirements, principal earner 
provisions, work history requirements, and 100-hour rule for AFDC-UP; 
increase AFDC resource limit to $2,500 and disregard as resources one 
vehicle with a market value up to $10,000, the balance in an Individual 
Development Account (IDA) up to $10,000, and the cash value of life 
insurance; disregard from income up to $10,000 in lump sum payments 
deposited in an IDA within 30 days of receipt, earned income of 
children attending school, and interest and dividend income up to $400; 
require participation in a family skills training program; require 
certain AFDC recipients to submit to random drug tests and/or 
participate in alcohol or drug treatment; require children to attend 
school; increase amount of child support passed through to AFDC 
recipients; require more extensive information for child support 
enforcement purposes; modify JOBS exemptions and good cause criteria, 
and increase sanctions for non-compliance; make job search a condition 
of eligibility; allow non-custodial parents of AFDC children to 
participate in JOBS; pay transitional grant equaling 3 percent of the 
maximum family grant following employment; and provide transitional 
grant Medicaid and child care for 12 months from the date of employment 
for cases previously closed due to time limit.
    Date Received: 6/12/95.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Linda Martin (804) 737-6010.

    Project Title: Tennessee--Families First.
    Description: Statewide, would impose 18 month time limit with 60 
month lifetime limit on cash assistance for non-exempt families 
(extensions available under certain circumstances); require full-time 
(40 hours) work or combination of work and other activities such as 
education, training, or job search, unless exempt; eliminate many JOBS 
exemptions including lowering youngest-child exemption to those with a 
child less than 16 weeks of age; remove limits on periods of job 
search; impose a family cap with no increase in benefits for additional 
children; require unmarried teen parents without high school diploma or 
GED to participate in education or other approved activity; deny AFDC 
for three months if recipients voluntarily quit job or if applicant 
voluntarily quits employment within two months of AFDC application; 
impose whole family sanction for noncompliance with employment, 
training or work preparation activities; impose sanctions without a 
prior conciliation period; provide transitional child care and 
transitional Medicaid for 18 months and without regard to months of 
AFDC receipt; change earned income disregards; eliminate the 100-hour 
rule, work history and quarters of work requirements when AFDC 
recipient marries and disregard new stepparent's income up to set 
limit; hold harmless child support arrearages owed by the new husband/
wife to his/her child in the new family unit as long as the parent 
continues to reside in the home; require that applicants and recipients 
sign Personal Responsibility Plan as condition of eligibility and 
assure that children attend school, receive regular immunizations and 
health checks, and the caretaker cooperates with child support 
enforcement; impose significant sanction for failure of children to 
attend school or obtain immunizations; impose whole family sanction for 
failure to cooperate with child support enforcement; deny AFDC for 10 
years for those convicted of fraudulently receiving benefits from two 
states simultaneously; allow low-income entrepreneurs to establish 
special accounts up to $5,000; conform AFDC and Food Stamp rules by 
increasing resource limit to $2,000 and counting lump sum income as a 
resource in the month received and after, if retained; and increase 
auto limit to $4,600. In 12 counties allow individual development 
accounts up to $5,000 and in 1 county operate a Responsible Fatherhood 
Demonstration Pilot using IV-D funds.
    Date Received: 5/1/96.
    Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.
    Current Status: New.
    Contact Person: Glenda Shearon, (615) 313-5652.


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    Project Title: Utah--Single-Parent Employment Demonstration 
(Amendments).
    Description: Would amend the current Single Parent Employment 
Demonstration (SPED), requiring preschool children to be immunized and 
other children to attend school; considering as a single filing unit 
each family with a child in common, including all children in the 
household related to either parent; permitting parents removed from the 
grant due to non-cooperation or fraud to remain eligible for JOBS 
services, including support services; and allowing a ``best estimate'' 
of earnings in lieu of actual earnings so long as estimate is within 
$100 of actual earnings. These amendments would initially be limited to 
the Kearns office and later expanded to other SPED sites.
    Date Received: 2/7/96.
    Type: AFDC.
    Current Status: Pending.
    Contact Person: Bill Biggs, (801) 538-4337.

III. Listing of Approved Proposals Since April 1, 1995

    Project Title: Iowa--Family Investment Plan (Amendments).
    Contact Person: Ann Weibers, (515) 281-7714.

IV. Requests for Copies of a Proposal

    Requests for copies of an AFDC or combined AFDC/Medicaid proposal 
should be directed to the Administration for Children and Families 
(ACF) at the address listed above. Questions concerning the content of 
a proposal should be directed to the State contact listed for the 
proposal.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program, No. 93562; 
Assistance Payments--Research.)

    Dated: May 6, 1996.
Howard Rolston,
Director, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.
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