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PEMD-84-6 1 (1984-04-02)

handle is hein.gao/gaobabelq0001 and id is 1 raw text is: REPORT BY THE U. S. General Accounting Office An Evaluation Of The 1981 AFDC Changes: Initial Analyses The Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 (OBRA) made major changes in the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program, particularly with regard to AFDC recipients' earnings. These changes resulted in the loss of AFDC benefits for many working recipients, and they reduced benefits for many others. From its survey of state public assistance agencies and an analysis of 10 years of HHS program data, GAO estimates that when the declines in caseload and outlays stabilized, OBRA had decreased the national AFDC-Basic monthly caseload by 493,000 cases and monthly outlays by $93 million. However, because the caseload rose faster than pre- dicted after this point, long-term effects are less certain. GAO conducted in-depth evaluations of OBRA's effects on individual AFDC families in Boston, Dallas, Memphis, Milwaukee, and Syracuse, using case records and interviews. These evaluations indicate that by fall 1983, most working recipients who lost benefits because of OBRA had not quit their jobs and returned to AFDC. In interviews with former working recipients more than a year after their termination from AFDC because of OBRA, GAO found that OBRA changes to the food stamp program appear to have resulted in a simultaneous loss of AFDC and food stamps for many families in Boston, Milwaukee, and Syracuse. Although earnings increased for many who remained in the labor force, the respondents as a whole (including those no longer working) experienced significant income losses in all five sites. Apparently they did not make up the loss of income from AFDC and food stamps by working. Additionally, in Dallas and Memphis, about half of these families remained without health insurance coverage after having lost Medicaid. 123783 GAO/PEMD-84-6 0 APRIL 2, 1984

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