Public Assistance: Effect of the Increase in Current Old-Age and Survivors Insurance Benefits
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چکیده
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 the assistance programs of the provisions, also effective September 1950, liberalizing eligibility conditions for old-age and survivors insurance benefits.
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Federal Grants to State and Local Governments, 1953–54
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