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...FAP would replace the AFDC program; each family would get $1,600 from the Federal Government. That would be only the floor. Through continuing state contributions atop that sum, most recipients would get approximately what they get now. But the change in much of the South would be dramatic. HEW estimates that there are 845,000 AFDC families in the South and Puerto Rico that would benefit to varying degrees. In Alabama, for instance, the maximum payment for an AFDC family of four is now $972; under FAP, it would be at least the federally guaranteed $1,600, even...
Largely the concept of the White House's resident liberal, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, FAP would provide a guaranteed minimum income of $1,600 annually to every welfare family of four. It would eliminate the harsh proviso of many state laws that cuts off aid to a mother and her children if the father returns to live with them. The program would initially add an estimated 12 million poor people to welfare rolls, which now carry 11.6 million. But through provisions for day-care centers for the children of working mothers and requirements that able-bodied recipients must either work...
...point on which the Finance Committee's ranking Republican, John Williams of Delaware, expertly probed for and found grave weaknesses. Williams shocked his colleagues by producing figures assembled by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare at his request. They showed that total state-federal assistance to an FAP-eligible family (food stamps, Medicaid, public housing) could in several states add up to more than $6,000 yearly, none of it subject to income or Social Security taxes. That is more than many self-supporting families earn...
...experts returned to the drawing board, but their revisions still would permit instances in which a four-person family headed by a woman could receive more in federal assistance than she would be likely to earn. Further, FAP's so-called work incentives are inadequate in the view of all committee members. It would be possible for an FAP family to increase its earnings by $1,000 and realize as little as a $200 gain in actual income-because the $1,000 increase would cut off food stamps and other benefits...
...Finance Committee fails to send the bill to the floor with a favorable report, as now seems certain, Administration backers may try to attach FAP to a Social Security bill regarded as sure to pass. But without the support of Finance Committee members, the effort has little chance...