means tested programs

• Low Levels of Retirement Resources in the Near-Elderly Time Period and Future Participation in Means-Tested Programs

This article describes the de facto standards of low income and resources reflected in the eligibility standards of the largest means-tested programs that serve the elderly and then applies these standards to a near-elderly cohort. Through juxtaposing retirement resources in the near-elderly time period with program participation in the elderly time period, the author indirectly examines some of the changes between the two time periods that could affect program eligibility, including spend-down of resources and marital dissolution. Retirement resource levels are estimated using the Survey of Income and Program Participation, and subsequent participation in one of the means-tested programs—Supplemental Security Income (SSI)—is examined using matched administrative records.

• Social Security Bulletin
• Nbr. 70-1, February - November 2010

• Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, established in 1996, replaced what previously was called the Aid to Families with Dependen...

• NBER Reporter
• Nbr. 2000, March 2000

• Alien Amnesty Bloats Welfare

The major means-tested programs include Food Stamps, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, public housing, the earned income credit and Medicaid. For most of these individuals, receipt of the earned income tax credit and other refundable credits will outweigh Social security taxes paid.

• Human Events
• August 10, 2009

• 42 USC 608 - Sec. 608a. Fraud under means-tested welfare and public assistance programs

• US Code - Title 42: The Public Health and Welfare

• 31 CFR 285.1 - Collection of past-due support by administrative offset.

...Administrative offset means withholding funds payable by the United States (in... under this part payments made under means-tested programs when requested by the head of the Federal...

• Code of Federal Regulations - Title 31: Money and Finance: Treasury

• Census Bureau News - Economic Characteristics of Households in the United States: Third Quarter 2008

Census Bureau Reports Nearly Half of U.S. Residents Live in Households Receiving Government Benefits Participation in Means-Tested Programs on Upswing in 2008

• U.S. Newswire
• April 15, 2010

• Stimulus Bill Abolishes Welfare Reform Successes

Since the House and Senate bills are nearly identical in their welfare provisions, we can expect these features to continue in any final bill. The federal government runs over 50 means-tested welfare programs, including Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, Medicaid, food stamps, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), the Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) food program, public housing, Section 8 housing, the Community Development Block Grant the Social Services Block Grant, and Head Start. [...] both Congress and President Obama intend for most of these increases to become permanent.

• Human Events
• September 04, 2009

• There's No Easy Pill to Fix Healthcare

Today, about 12 million uninsured Americans - including 74 percent of uninsured children - are already eligible for either SCHIP or Medicaid but simply aren't enrolled. Simply delaying the onset or slowing the progression of Alzheimer's by five years could save $100 billion per year by 2020 in Medicare and Medicaid costs. This is why drug companies invested over $45 billion in2007 in finding new cures and treatments for Alzheimer's and diseases that affect not just millions of Americans, but billions of people around the world. Pharmaceutical companies aren't just developing cures to fight these diseases. They're also calling for innovative new public-private partnerships to tackle chronic diseases, starting with the establishment of a collaborative National Commission on Chronic Care M...

... procedures that piggyback on other means-tested programs, like food stamps and the national...

• Michigan Chronicle
• August 29, 2009

• Improving Child Support Enforcement for Children Receiving SSI

This article examines child support provisions in the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and other means-tested programs. It also discusses policy options for improving receipt of child support for children receiving SSI and ways that SSA could gain better access to child support data.

• Social Security Bulletin
• Nbr. 64-1, April 2001

• Does Obama's Election Mean Real Change?

The realigning election of 1932 prefigured the thirty-six year dominance of a Democratic coalition that embraced the democratic regulation of capitalism and the emergence of a modest universal United States welfare state. The New Deal coalition, however, despite opposition from radicals and progressive Democrats, excluded African-Americans and Latinos by denying the largely Black and Latino farm workers and domestic workers Social Security benefits and the National Labor Relations Act's federal guarantee of the right to organize. The ensuing struggle to include the disproportionately non-white poor in mainstream American life culminated in the means-tested programs of the Great Society. The reaction against these programs, particularly by workers whose income put them just above the lev...

• Democratic Left
• Vol. 36 Nbr. 3, January 2008