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handle is hein.amenin/aeiacjs0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Supplemental Security Income: The New Federal Program for the Aged, Blind, and Disabled, by Paul L. Grimaldi, evaluates the first three years of the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program, 1974-1977. Its initial effect was to raise welfare payments and to reduce the number of aged, blind, and disabled persons with incomes below the poverty line. In the longer term, the SSI program has made the minimum social security benefit no longer necessary as an anti- poverty measure. SSI replaced the myriad state-operated welfare programs with a uniform nationwide program administered by the Social Security Administration. In a majority of cases, the federally financed benefits replaced state welfare payments, providing state governments with fiscal relief from mushrooming welfare costs. In twelve states, how- ever, including some of the largest, state welfare expenditures for the aged, blind, and disabled were larger after the SSI program was implemented than before. And contrary to expectations, federal ad- ministration of the program has resulted in a payment error rate com- parable to that of the earlier state-administered programs-affecting approximately one-fourth of all SSI claims. Paul L. Grimaldi is associate professor of economics at the W. Paul Stillman School of Business, Seton Hall University, South Orange, New Jersey. American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research 1150 Seventeenth Street, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20036 ISBN 978-0-8447-3356-2 |1|| |I1 90000> 780844 733562 I I

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