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Welfare
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Dependent Children (AFDC) program, the main program that is the subject of the current debate in Congress and the reform bill passed by the last session of the General Assembly. There are 46 children involved in those 24 cases, she said.
It is one of the smaller of the programs run out of the department. There are 165 families receiving food stamps and 400 individuals who qualify for Medicaid. There are also 20 children in foster care, some placed outside the county but still the responsibility of the local Social Services Department.
That is one of the concerns, Mr. McCarthy said. Talcing away AFDC payments may mean placing more children in foster care, and that is more costly than AFDC.
Mr. McCarthy said another concern is that the funds for the Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA) are being cut and funding may be eliminated entirely, under proposals being debated in Congress. Some people have found jobs through that program of worker training and subsidized employment. If funds for that are cut, it may mean more people qualify for AFDC.
The JTPA program is entirely federally run, Mr. McCarthy said. If instead people receiving services under that program become the responsibility of local social services there is a 20 percent local cost share, he said. “My concern is that the numbers may increase, and there will be a local burden. It is impossible to predict the consequences at this level.”
The bill approved by the General Assembly limits AFDC payments to a maximum of two years. Recipients are required to work in subsidized, unsubsidized or community service
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