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BY 11-[ COMPTROLLER GENERAL
Report To The Congress
(J T I ][-- UNIT LD S-ATES
States Use Several Strategies
To Cope With Funding Reductions
Under Social Services Block Grant
In 1981 three categorical grant programs
were consolidated into the social services
block grant, which gave states greater
authority for program management Al-
though federal SUpport decreased as states
began implementing the block grant, 11 of
the 13 states GAO visited increased their
total social servces expenditures between
1981 and 1983, primarilythrough increased
state and other nonfederal funding as well
as transfers from other federal block grant
programs The growth in expenditures, how-
ever, rarely kept pace with the increase in
inflition (uring this period
For the most part, states continued to fULnd
the swr e programs as they had under the
prior citegorcal programs, but changes
were made to program priorities, services
offered, and client eligibility to better reflect
states' views and adjust to limitations on
,Ivildble f Un(Js The same state agencies
thait hiad managed the prior social services
programs assuImed block grant responsi-
bililties an( reported making administrative
ifiprovement s Overall, state officials were
plea,,sed with the block grant, while many
interest (jroLupS preferred the prior approach
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