Concurrent Receipt of Public Assistance and Old-Age and Survivors Insurance
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Old-age and survivors insurance and two of the public assist ance programs-old-age assistance and aid to dependent children-have 4 common purpose in that they are income-maintenonce programs for aged persons and for children. For this reason the concurrent receipt of both types of payment has been a matter of continuing interest, and information on that subject has been reported annually in the Bulletin in recent years. This year’s article shows also the effect on public assistance of the 1954 liberalizations in old-age and survivors insurance and discusses some of the characteristics of aged beneficiary-recipients, cornoaring them with the characteristics of all recipients of old-age assistance.
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Conczment Receipt of Public Assistance and Old-Age and Survivors hzsurance
Two of the public assistance programs-old-age assistance and aid to dependent children-and the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program have a common purpose in that they are incomemaintenance programs for aged persons and for children. For this reason, the Bureau of Public Assistance summarizes in the Bulletin each year information obtained by State and local public assistance agen...
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COVERAGE OF the Nation’s aged population by the old-age, survivors, and disability insurance program has expanded rapidly in recent years. By February 1960 an estimated 10.1 million persons aged 65 and over-646 of every 1,000 persons in that age group-were receiving benefits under that program. Largely as a result of the increasing financial protection afforded the aged population by oldage, su...
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The 1950 amendments to the Social Security Act made substantial changes in old-age and survivors insurance coverage and benefits. Of the new provisions that were effective September 1950, one—the increase in current insurance benefits—had an almost immediate effect on public assistance caseloads and expenditures, as reported in the following pages. A later article will summarize the impact on t...
متن کاملCharacteristics of Aged Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Beneficiaries Who Receive Public Assistance
T HREE out of every 4 persons aged 65 and over in the United States receive either old-age and survivors insurance benefits or old-age assistance payments, or both. For this reason the socio-economic characteristics of aged insurance beneficiaries and assistance recipients under these social security programs have an important bearing on planning for the security of the aged. Findings of the na...
متن کاملOld-Age and Survivors Insurance
for old-age and survivors insurance to reach full maturi ty, it is still in its childhood. The number of beneficiaries today is only a fraction of the number who will be receiving benefits 1 0 or 1 5 years hence. Acceptance by employers and workers of the idea of social insurance protection for old people and survivors, however, has been little short of phenomenal. This general acceptance is th...
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تاریخ انتشار 2000