Title XIX-Grants to States for Medical Assistance Pro Page grams 507 Title XX-Grants to States for Services___ Section 43-Earned Income____. Chapter 2-Tax on Self-Employment Income_.. Chapter 21-Federal Insurance Contributions Act___ Excerpt from the Consumer Credit Protection Act, as amended Excerpts from the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as enacted by section 1301 of the Food and Agriculture Act of 1977 (P.L. 95-113) Selected Unemployment Insurance Laws: 541 557 559 581 617 629 662 703 707 Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation 711 Excerpt from Public Law 93-618, the Trade Act of 1974, 718 Excerpt from Title 5, U.S. Code (Unemployment Benefits 733 Excerpts from Public Laws related to the Social Security Act: 741 D-Federal Matching Percentages for Welfare Programs (D-i) E-Variable Amounts Applicable to Selected Provisions__ (E-i) F-Amending Legislation_ (F-i) Revised April 1982 SOCIAL SECURITY ACT, AS AMENDED AN ACT To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemployment compensation laws; to establish a Social Security Board; to raise revenue; and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, TITLE I-GRANTS TO STATES FOR OLD-AGE Section 1. For the purpose of enabling each State, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to furnish financial assistance to aged needy individuals, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare (hereinafter referred to as the "Secretary"), State plans for oldage assistance. 1 P.L. 92-603, sec. 303, repealed title I effective January 1, 1974, but such repeal does not apply to Puerto Rico, Guam, and the Virgin Islands. The heading was amended by sec. 2184 of P.L. 97-35. 2 This table of contents does not appear in the law, 3 Sec. 1 was amended by sec. 2184 of P.L. 97-35. Sec. 2. (a) A State plan for old-age assistance must— (1) except to the extent permitted by the Secretary with respect to services, provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State, and, if administered by them, be mandatory upon them; (2) provide for financial participation by the State; (3) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration of the plan; (4) (A) provide for granting an opportunity for a fair hearing before the State agency to any individual whose claim for assistance under the plan is denied or is not acted upon with reasonable promptness, and (B) that if the State plan is administered in each of the political subdivisions of the State by a local agency and such local agency provides a hearing at which evidence may be presented prior to a hearing before the State agency, such local agency may put into effect immediately upon issuance its decision upon the matter considered at such hearing; (5) provide (A) such methods of administration (including methods relating to the establishment and maintenance of personnel standards on a merit basis, except that the Secretary shall exercise no authority with respect to the selection, tenure of office, and compensation of any individual employed in accordance with such methods) as are found by the Secretary to be necessary for the proper and efficient operation of the plan, and (B) for the training and effective use of paid subprofessional staff, with particular emphasis on the full-time or part-time employment of recipients and other persons of low income, as community service aides, in the administration of the plan and for the use of nonpaid or partially paid volunteers in a social service volunteer program in providing services to applicants and recipients and in assisting any advisory committees established by the State agency; (6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form and containing such information, as the Secretary may from time to time require, and comply with such provisions as the Secretary may from time to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports; 1 Sec. 2 was amended by sec. 2184 of P.L. 97-33. |