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Allowed women and their children who are temporarily
living in houses or shelters for battered women to use
food stamps. |
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Excluded energy assistance payments from consideration
as income. |
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Consumer Price Index to be used in all FSP calculations
is the new index developed to cover all urban consumers,
not merely wage or clerical workers. |
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Allowed a separate dependent care deduction at a maximum
of $90 per household per month. This deduction will not
be indexed. To be implemented January 1, 1982. |
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Threshold above which all medical costs to be deducted
by those 60 or older or on SSI or receiving disability
payments under title II of the SSA lowered from $35 to
$25 a month. Medical expenses incurred by the spouse of
an elderly, blind, or disabled household member allowed
to be included in the deduction, even if he/she were not
elderly, blind, or disabled. To be implemented January
1, 1982. |
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Medical deduction for the blind and disabled extended to
cover blind or disabled persons in Puerto Rico, Guam,
and the Virgin Islands who are covered by titles II, X
and XIV of the SSA, but not SSI, which does not apply to
those areas. |
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Provided States the option of applying retrospective
accounting procedures. |
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Excluded a vehicle which is used for a physically
disabled person from consideration as a resource. |
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Provided States the option to conduct administrative
fraud hearings or seek civil/criminal action. |
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States with retrospective accounting would have to
require periodic reporting; other States could, with
Secretary's approval. |
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Certification periods for households required to submit
periodic reports 6-12 months. |
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Secretary allowed to modify income exclusion for
infrequent or irregular income. |
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Secretary allowed to modify timeliness standard for
notice of expiration and recertification application. |
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Households with strikers as members are only eligible if
they meet program requirements. |
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The income, less a pro-rata share, and resources of
ineligible individuals must be considered in determining
a household's eligibility and allotment. |
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States permitted to expand their use of third-party
information or documentation to verify household size
and any other factor shown to be subject to substantial
error in connection with error-prone household profiles
developed from quality control statistics. |
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Required all certified eligible households (other than
those certified at home or by mail) to have photo ID's
in project areas in which the Secretary, after
consultation with the Inspector General, finds that
mandating such a procedure in the project area in
question would help protect the program's integrity. The
ID to be used in conjunction with the ATP in obtaining
coupons. |
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Required certification workers to report an ineligible
alien to INS if the worker determines the alien is in
the country illegally. |
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States agencies provided the option of establishing and
operating ADP and information retrieval systems that
meet the Secretary's standards. |
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Required the Secretary to conduct an investigation of a
State on evidence of a pattern of non-compliance and if
such non-compliance was found and the State did not take
corrective action, the Secretary could withhold
administrative funds. |
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Replaced the simplified affidavit with a "simple
application" for SSI joint processing. |
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Provided for a special financial audit review by OIG of
high participation States where 60% of population
receives stamps. Limited the mandatory auditing of any
one State by the OIG to one audit with any remaining
audits to be at the option of the Inspector General. |
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Provided for the forfeiture of nonfood items or funds
obtained in illegal transactions. |
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As of October 1, 1980 incentives provided for States to
reduce errors. Incentives increased Federal cost sharing
to 65% for States with error rates of under 5% and
reasonable rates of invalid denials; allowed 60% Federal
cost sharing for States with error rates of more than 5%
but less than 8%; and 55% Federal cost sharing for
States that reduce error rates by 25% or more. No State
to receive more than one incentive. |
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Provided for an error rate sanction system which imposed
a penalty upon those States that failed to meet certain
specified performance standards in controlling their
error rates. States liable for all erroneous allotments
over their prescribed limit out of the Federal
administrative cost-sharing. |
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Allowed Department and State agency employees (upon
written request) to obtain SSA wage, net earnings from
self-employment, and benefit records (including
information from IRS returns previously turned over to
the SSA) as well as unemployment compensation wage and
benefit information and information relating to refusal
of an offer of employment. Request subject to HEW
safeguards designed to insure that the information will
be used only to determine a household's eligibility to
receive food stamps, or to verify information in the
household's application. |
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Permitted payment of legal fees of departmental
employees involved in job-related suits. |
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Allowed Secretary to pay 75% of State costs for
computerization, except for leasing of computers.
Effective October 1, 1980. |
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SSI cash-out pilot project continued through October 1,
1981 even if welfare reform legislation (which cashes
out SSI recipients) is passed, if the State requests a
continuation. |
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Workfare job search time period changed from 30 days to
10 days in at least one workfare pilot project area. |
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Workfare pilot project extended to September 30, 1981
with interim reports due October 1, 1979, October 1,
1980, and March 30, 1981. 50% cost share funding for
administrative expenses in workfare pilot projects. |
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Required a report to Congress by CBO, in conjunction
with the Secretaries of Agriculture, Commerce and Labor,
of the CPI and other indices to determine their validity
for current and future projections. Due February 1,
1981. |
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Denied use of federal funds by groups using such funds
to impede implementation of the FSA. |
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Provided for the annual rather than semi-annual
adjustment of the TFP. Annual adjustment to be done on a
January to January basis. Allotment adjustment canceled
July 1, 1980. Adjustments effective January 1981 to be
based on changes for the 12 months ending September 30,
1980. The January, 1982 adjustment to be based on
changes for the 12 months ending the preceding September
30 and the subsequent three months ending December 31
projected by the Secretary; and thereafter every January
1 for the 9 months ending the preceding September 30 and
the subsequent 3 months ending December 31, as projected
by the Secretary. |
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Provided for the annual rather than semi-annual
adjustment of the standard deduction, every January 1.
Canceled the annual excess shelter deduction adjustment
for July 1, 1980 and adjusted this every January 1
thereafter. Adjustments effective January 1981 to be
based on changes for the 12 months ending September 30,
1980. January 1982 adjustment based on changes for the
12 months ending the preceding September 30 and the
subsequent three months ending December 31 projected by
the Secretary; and thereafter every January 1 for the 9
months ending the preceding September 30 and the
subsequent 3 months ending December 31, as projected by
the Secretary. |
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Poverty line no longer updated by more current CPI data
resulting in the net income limit reflecting the poverty
line as it was 12-24 months ago rather than 4-15 months
ago as it was previously. |
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Asset limit (except for households of two or more that
contain an elderly person) dropped from $1,750 to
$1,500. |
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Eliminated all post-secondary school students from the
program excepting only: 1) those who could not be
expected to work because they are under 18, over 60 or
disabled; 2) are already working at least half-time; 3)
have dependents; or 4) are participating in the WIN
program. |
