This report summarizes basic eligibility rules, as of May 1983, for more than 70 cash and non-cash programs that benefit primarily persons of limited income. It also gives funding formulas, benefit levels, and, for fiscal years 1979-1981, recipient numbers and expenditure data for each program.,CRS 83-110 EPW,"June 6, 1983.",SuDoc# LC 14. 18/3

This paper provides a brief legislative history of the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), which was created by the Social Security Act of 1935. From the beginning each State has set its own benefit levels; but over the years Congress has altered many features of AFDC, including potential eligibility, treatment of earnings, and Federal share of funding. The paper traces these changes.,Vee Burke, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare Division,CRS 84-546 EPW,"February 24, 1984.",SuDoc# LC 14. 18/3

Vee Burke, Specialist in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare Division,CRS 87-74 EPWnn"February 2, 1987."nnSuDoc # LC 14. 18/3

This report provides brief summaries of selected proposals to revise programs of aid for needy children and their families. All proposals would alter treatment of recipients of the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and some also include recommendations to revise cash welfare for the needy aged, blind, or disabled (Supplemental Security Income--SSI). nnThe report summarizes several provisions of current law and then describes how the proposals would change them. Examined are: benefit rules, work/school obligations, treatment of earnings, job refusal on income grounds, eligibility of two-parent families, the Federal funding share, and the interaction of AFDC with other programs.,Vee Burke, Specialist in Social Legislation and Carmen D. Solomon, Analyst in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare Division,CRS 87-309 EPW,"January 20, 1987"n"Updated August 17, 1987.",SuDoc# 14. 18/3