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Block maintains that the administration already has sufficient legal authority to carry out the PIK program, but that he wants congressional input and planning to assist in its beginning.
One important authority Block does need before the program starts is the power to freeze direct subsidy payments at 1983 levels. These subsidies, called "deficiency payments" cost taxpayers over SI billion in 1982 and are automatically increased each year.
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