A bill to amend the Social Security Act to provide that the Federal Government will gradually take over the local share of AFDC and medicaid costs if States meet certain minimum AFDC benefit requirements, and for other purposes.
Welfare and Medicaid Fiscal Assistance Program Act of 1981 - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to raise the "Federal medical assistance percentage" to 90 percent by fiscal year 1985 provided a State establish a minimum benefit level for its AFDC program (part A of title IV of the Act, Aid to Families with Dependent Children). Requires the minimum benefits to be at least 75 percent of the official poverty line. Provides for additional payments to a State if the State incurs additional expenditures in meeting the minimum benefit amount. Requires under both Medicaid and AFDC that additional Federal funds be passed through the State to local government.
Introduced in Senate
Read second time and referred to Senate Committee on Finance.
Committee on Finance requested executive comment from OMB; Treasury Department; Health and Human Services Department.
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