Initial Effects of the 1958 PA Amendments on Assistance Payments
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Effective October 1, 1958, the four public assistance titles of the Social Security Act were amended to change the basis of Federal financial participation in assistance payments under State programs for old-age assistance, aid to the blind, aid to the permanently and totally disabled, and aid to dependent children. The amendments had a threefold effect: (1) They made available some additional Federal funds to each State; (2) they simplified administrative procedures for the States by providing for Federal matching on an average maximum basis, covering combined money payments to recipients and vendor payments in their behalf for medical care; and (3) they brought about greater equity in the financing of public assistance by relating in part the Federal share of assistance payments to State fiscal capacity as measured by State per capita inc0me.l
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تاریخ انتشار 2000