ERIC Number: ED298191
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1988-May
Pages: 27
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Welfare Reform: Projected Effects of Requiring AFDC for Unemployed Parents Nationwide. Briefing report to the Ranking Minority Member, Subcommittee on Public Assistance and Unemployment Compensation, Committee on Ways and Means, House of Representatives.
General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.
Aid to Families with Dependent Children for Unemployed Parents (AFDC-UP) is a state option under which cash aid is provided to two-parent families whose principal earner is unemployed or employed less than 100 hours a month. As of January 1988, 27 states, the District of Columbia, and Guam had AFDC-UP. This report reviews the following: (1) available cost estimates of requiring states to adopt AFDC-UP; and (2) research on AFDC-UP's effect on families. The Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) 1993 Federal and state cost estimates for requiring AFDC-UP under H.R. 1720--$945 million and $961 million, respectively--and S. 1511--$915 million and $1.090 billion--are similar. CBO's and HHS's estimates for H.R. 1720 differ mostly on food stamp costs; on S. 1511 they differ mostly on Medicaid costs. Mathematica Policy Research's estimates for H.R. 1831 and an identical bill, S. 862, are also reviewed. Very little information was found about AFDC-UP's family stability effects; the information found is of little relevance to the current proposals. Data are presented on three tables. One of the two appendixes lists the data bases reviewed in the literature search for this report; the other describes selected provisions of the welfare reform proposals discussed. (BJV)
Descriptors: Cost Estimates, Economically Disadvantaged, Family Financial Resources, Federal Aid, Federal Legislation, Federal Programs, Low Income Groups, Program Budgeting, Program Costs, State Programs, Unemployment, Welfare Reform, Welfare Services
U.S. General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20817 (1-5 copies free, over 5 copies $2.00 each, 100 or more copies 25% discount).
Publication Type: Reports - Research
Education Level: N/A
Audience: Policymakers
Language: English
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Authoring Institution: General Accounting Office, Washington, DC. Div. of Human Resources.
Identifiers - Laws, Policies, & Programs: Aid to Families with Dependent Children
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