Transitions from Afdc to Ssi Prior to Welfare Reform - Policy Brief

Transitions from AFDC to SSI before welfare reform.

The Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) programs serve populations with similar characteristics. SSI serves adults and children with disabilities who are in low-income families, and AFDC serves low-income families with children. Because of that overlap, policy changes in one program can affect the other. In 1996, Congress enacted the Personal Re...

AFDC, SSI, and Welfare Reform Aggressiveness: Caseload Reductions vs. Caseload Shifting∗

Welfare reform has made receipt of cash benefits more difficult and less attractive for single mothers. We examine whether reforms of AFDC affected caseloads of another program Supplemental Security Income (SSI). We exploit state variation in welfare reform over time, and find that female-headed households in states aggressively pursuing welfare reform were 21.6 percent more likely to receive S...

Are AFDC and SSI Substitutes ?

Dan Black Terra McKinnish Seth Sanders Senior Research Fellow, Carnegie Joint Doctoral Candidate Research Director, Carnegie Mellon Census Research Data Center Heinz School of Public Policy Mellon Census Research Data Center and and and Gatton College of Business and Economics Department of Statistics Heinz School of Public Policy The University of Kentucky Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie M...

Welfare Policy and the Employment Rate of Afdc Mothers

The paper analyzes the effect of economic incentives in the AFDC program on the employment of AFDC mothers. Multiple regression analysis is applied to cross-sectional aggregate state program data for 1967. Our estimates indicate that the level of guarantees, tax rates and set-asides affect AFDC employment rates in the direction predicted by economic theory. Short of a drastic reduction in guara...

Organizational Responses to Social Policy: The Case of Welfare Reform