Effect of Increased OASI Benefits on Public Assistance, September
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Table L-Old-age assistance and aid to dependent children: Aged per- Notes and Brzef Reports sons and families with children re- ceiving both assistance payments Effect of Increased OASI To help State agenciesin adjusting and OASI benefits, by State, Sep- Benefits on Public the amount of the assistance pay- tember 1954 1 ments made to persons who were re- Assistance, September- OAA recip- ADC fami- ceiving old-age and survivors insur- ients receiv- lies receiv- December 1954 * ance benefits before the amendments, in$,X&I 1 ing OASI a set, of conversion tables was pre- benefits The 1954 amendments to the Social IL--- Security Act that became effective pared by the Bureau of Old-Age and in September included provisions in- Survivors Insurance in cooperation state creasing benefit payments for all cur- with the Bureau of Public Assistance. rent beneficiaries of old-age and sur- These tables, which showed the bene- vivors insurance and permitting im- fit paid for August and the amount mediate entitlement to benefits of a of the increase for September, were group of persons who had heretofore used for all single beneficiaries and __]-I__ - been excluded. This new group con- for all family groups consisting of Total, 53 States :.mm.-4 L69.0351 18.2 26,325~ 4.5 two beneficiaries except families con- ---- sists of surviving parents, widows, Alabama-. _.______..___. 1.92& 644 3.9 and children of individuals who died sisting of two children only. All Alaska...---.-- _____ ---. 4041 2::: 5i 5.3 Arizona- _____ ________ 2,638 20.3 207 4.8 after 1939 and before September 1, other beneficiary cases, estimated to Arkansas.~ ..___ _...__. 2,949 5.6 262 3.5 be less than 10 percent of the total, California ._..__ _- _.____. 96.697 36.3 2,375 4.5 1950, and who, though not fully in- COlOEXlO ____ --- _____ --- 12,773 24.3 315 5.5 sured under the act at the time of had to be checked individually with Connecticut~. _-_. ..__ _. 5.445, 32.3 273 0.0 DelaWare-.--.--.-----. 2451 14.41 41 4.4 death, had at least 6 quarters of the old-age and survivors insurance Districr. of Columbia..- 641’ ‘21.3 4.1 coverage. Both these provisions af- district office for the area in which Florida.. .___ -.- ___. -.- 14.9041 2i.5 l.OE 5.4 the recipient lived. Georgia.. __.____._ .____ fect the public assistance caseloads Iiawaii-.- ____ -_- ._____ and expenditures, but their full ef- The majority of the States started Idaho-. ____._ -. _ _____ making the initial adjustment in as- Illinois.--....- .____._ -- fects are not yet known. Indi~na-....~~~....~~~~ sistance payments in October: a few IOl% ....._r._ -_- ..___._ Identification of persons newly KansIIs-ee..-.- .______. eligible for old-age and survivors in- States had started in September. Kentucky.-- .____._.. Louisiana... .____ -_-.-_ surance is in some instances difficult, With few exceptions, the reviews of Maine.. .._____ _..____ the remaining cases were completed and the assistance payments cannot Maryland ____ _.._____ be adjusted until claims for benefits in November and December. Some hlassachusett.s-.~.~~--- Michigan-. ._._____._._ a.re filed and adjudicated. Assistance agencies reinvestigated cases with llfinnesota ______. --..__ old-age and survivors insurance in- Mississippi. _ ___-_. ..__ agenciesare still reporting new bene- Missouri ____ ---- ______ ficiaries among the persons who had come and rebudgeted them for Montanae.-~.- ___._ -_- Nebraska-.--- ___..._._ been receiving old-age assistance or changes in need: other agencies Nevada-.-.-.---- ._____ aid to dependent children payments made desk reviews of the cases. Nw Hampshire--- __ -_ in September 1954. All the States submitted reports for New Jersey .._______... 4,751 22.9 444 8.3 New Mexico _____._.___ 1,151 9.5 267 4.0 The increase in benefits provided the months of October through De- New York.. ____ . .._ __ 2;,;;; 21.2 ‘a; 2.2 cember showing the number of cases North Carolina _.....__ by the amendments had an almost North Dakota ___._____ ‘875 1% 92 iti reviewed and the type of initial ac- Ohio.. .___ ____- _______. 20,605 19.8 759 5.4 immediate effect, however, on public Oklehoma. _.._._._____ assistance caseloads and expendi- tion taken by the assistanceagencies Oregonian.--.. __-----. 13,9575,912 14.728.9 772182 It: and comparing the change from the Pennsylvania _.________ 9,790 16.3 % 3.2 tures. This report relates only to Rhode Island ..________ 2,485 26.9 3.2 preceding month in the assistance the recipients of old-age assistance South Carolina ___..___. and to families receiving aid to de- payments with the change in monthly South Dakota ._______ -. pendent children in September 1954 old-age and survivors insurance bene- who also received an old-age and fits since August 1954. Most States survivors insurance benefit for Au- reported on all recipients affected. gust 1954.1 A later report will sum- A few States requested permission to marize the elect on these programs report the effects of the 1954 amend- of the group of persons who became ments on a sample basis: in most instances, plans were made for them newly eligible for benefits. INot entirely comparable with annual data re- to report on t.he basis of a statistical ported on concurrent receipt of public assistance and insurance benefits because of difference in report- *Prepared by Sue Ossman, Division of sample those items relating to re- ing methods. Excludes some cases that were sub- sequently closed or suspended for reasons other than Program Statistics and Analysts, Bureau of cipients who received an increase in the effect of the increase in benefit. Public Assistance. benefits and continued to receive “Includes Puerto Rieq; not shown in table be- 1 Because only a few reciplenta of aid cause no cases were receiving both assistance pay- assistance and to report on a 100. ments and insurance benefits. Total for aid to dc- to the blind and aid to the permanentIy percent basis for recipients whose pendent children is for 52 States; excludes Nevada, and totally disabled are affected by the where program is administered without Federal amendments, the States were not asked to assistance was terminated. narticiDation. J Excludes a few cases in which there was no re- report on these programs. The accompanying tables show the duction in payment. Bulfetin, July 1955 11 cumulative effect of the monthly Table 2.-Old-age assistance and aid to dependent children: Type of action changes that occurred during the 3- taken to adjust assistancepayments for increase in OASI benefits, by State, September-December1954 month period on cases receiving pub- lic assistance and old-age and sur- 1 OAA recipients receiving OASI benefits I ADC families receiving OASI benefits vivors insurance benefits in Septem- - -- - ber. Only one payment adjustment Percentage distribution by Percentage distribution by or other action for each case is in- Total type of action Total type of action state Il”Ill- I nunl- 1- - - cluded. The totals are the closest ber, her, approximation that can be made of Sep- pay- Pay- Sep- Pay. Pay- tember Closed sus- ment men t ember CXosed SUS. ment ment 1954 ’ pendec not 1954 ’ I )ended not the effect the increased old-age and duced :ducec I re ,duced ,duced survivors insurance benefits have had -- -- - on assistance payments. The data Total _.....__...._ 469,035 2.0 0.4 85.9 11. 7 26,325 3.1 0.5 72.9 23.5 ____ _- - are not entirely comparable with an- Alabamn~.... ..__..._ 1,925 24.4 ____.._ 88.3 7.3 644 5.6 7F. 7 17.7 nual data reported by State agencies Alnskn . .._..._..__... 404 .7 .__.... 83.4 15.8 57 (2) (2) Srizoon . .._. -.__-_ i,z; 88.5 10.5 207 (Y.4 %3 21.3 on concurrent receipt of public as- Arkansus . .._ _. _. _ _ 7: i (3)’ 3 8G. 7 5.9 202 2.7 58.X 38.5 California.... __... -__ 981697 83. ti 15.9 2,375 2.5 .5 82. 9 14.0 sistance and old-age and survivors in- Oolorado _....______ -- 1;s ‘$ :: .-:! 97. 7 2.1 315 3.2 61.9 34.9 Connecticut......... 1.3 (3) 94.9 3.7 273 1.1 .4 90.1 8.4 surance benefits, because the methods Delaware.-..-.-..-.. ‘245 3 3 _ _ _-_. 81.6 15.1 41 of reporting used are different. The District of Columbia. 641 .G ____--. 97.3 2.0 97 ii{ I:; I:; g method used for reporting the effect Florida . ..__.. --.__.., 14,904 2.0 .___--. 84.5 13. B 1,091 2.1 36.3 61. G Georgia. ____. -._ .._._ 9,187 10.4 -.--__- 5. 1 971 4. 8 7,3.9 21.2 of the old-age and survivors insur- Havaii __._...___ _. _-- 292 8.2 5.1 “sit; 68 Pj ance benefit increase almost certainly Idaho.... __.. ___._ -. 1,933 1.0 -...__ !a 7 5.3 151 2.0 ___.... ii.1 (?5.9 Illinois.. ..-__ __-- ___. 17,241 2.9 1.J 92.2 4.0 834 1.1 1.2 79.9 17.9 resulted in some understatement. Indiaua.......... .__. 6,100 2.6 2.0 82.5 12.9 679 2.4 GG. 0 31.1 Iowa..--.-..-.....-.~ 7,117 2. h .Q 94.4 2.1 555 8.5 3:: 73.5 14.8 which-although not too serious for 1iansvs .