1675 CONTENTS II. Summary of principal provisions_ Eligibility for and amount of payments. Definitions of family and child.. Registration with public employment service.... State supplementation of family assistance payment.. Evaluation and annual report_--_. Social services for families with dependent children_ Aid to the aged, blind, and disabled___ III. General discussion of the bill-Continued A. Establishment of a plan, etc.—Continued (3) Determination of family relationships- (4) Income and resources of noncontributing adult (5) Recipients of aid to the aged, blind, and dis- (2) Overpayments and underpayments_ (4) Applications and furnishing of information by (5) Furnishing of information by other agencies-- f. Registration and referral of family members for man- power services, training, and employment--- g. Denial of benefits in case of refusal of manpower services, training, or employment-- h. Transfer of funds for on-the-job training programs. 2. State supplementation of family assistance benefits. a. Payments to States for other welfare programs conditioned on supplementation--- III. General discussion of the bill-Continued f. Overpayments and underpayments_- Page 40 40 h. Payments to States for services and administration_ 40 i. Computation of payments to States.. j. Definition_. k. Repeal of titles I, X, and XIV of the Social Security C. Miscellaneous conforming amendments. 41 D. General: 1. Effective date_ 2. Saving provision 3. Special provisions for Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, IV. Financing the family assistance act__. Alternative benefit funds considered___. Extension of family assistance to single adults and childless Financing adult assistance program_ 42 42 42 42 50 50 51 V. Section-by-section analysis of the bill_ 53 VI. Additional views of Hon. Sam M. Gibbons.... 78 VII. Dissenting views of Hon. Al Ullman, Hon. Phil Landrum, and 84 MARCH 11, 1970.-Committed to the Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union and ordered to be printed Mr. MILLS, from the Committee on Ways and Means, REPORT together with ADDITIONAL AND DISSENTING VIEWS [To accompany H.R. 16311] The Committee on Ways and Means, to whom was referred the bill (H.R. 16311) to amend the Social Security Act to provide a basic level of financial assistance throughout the Nation to needy families with children, to provide incentives for employment and training of members of such families, to improve the adult assistance programs, and to make other changes to improve the public assistance programs, having considered the same, report favorably thereon without amendment and recommend that the bill do pass. I. PRINCIPAL PURPOSES AND SCOPE OF THE BILL President Nixon, in transmitting his recommendations on welfare reform to the Congress in October of 1969, declared The present welfare system has failed us-it has fostered family breakup, has provided very little help in many States and has even deepened dependency by all too often making it more attractive to go on welfare than to go to work. I propose a new approach that will make it more attractive to go to work than to go on welfare, and will establish a nationwide minimum payment to dependent families with children. The President listed the following effects of his proposal: For the first time, all dependent families with children in America, regardless of where they live, would be assured of minimum standard payments based upon uniform and single eligibility standards. (1) |