TABLE 8.-Aid to the permanently and totally disabled: Expenditures for assistance and administration, by source of funds, fiscal year ended June 30, 1962 1

1 States not shown bave no program.

2 Amount less than 50 percent because half of the total expenditures exceeded the statutory limitation on the aggregate amount of Federal funds for all programs that can be made available for a fiscal year under legislation in effect during fiscal year 1962.

T Less than 0.05 percent.

TABLE 9.-General assistance: Expenditures for assistance and administration, by source of funds, fiscal year ended June 30, 1962 1

Represents an estimated amount for assistance payments; data for administration not available. • Incomplete.

Represents data for assistance payments; data for administration not available.

For administration, represents data for State office only; data for local offices not available.

7 Includes administrative costs for programs other than general assistance.

For administration, data incomplete.

For administration, represents expenditures of local welfare department. Excludes expenditures of County commissioners or other local officials.

Mr. THOMAS. Any further questions?

Mr. LANGEN. Referring to the charts on pages 35 and 36, column 2, is this all Kerr-Mills?

Mr. HURLEY. Yes, sir.

Mr. LANGEN. These figures identify the States where Kerr-Mills is now in effect?

Mr. HURLEY. Yes. There are 28. There are some other States contemplating putting it in.

Mr. LANGEN. Would there be additional obligations in this column by virtue of States having qualified in the last quarter?

Mr. HURLEY. There is a possibility we may have additional payments for this program in this quarter but that is somewhat doubtful at the moment.

Mr. THOMAS. Thank you, gentlemen. Let's move along to the Bureau of Family Services.

BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES

WITNESSES

JOHN J. HURLEY, ACTING DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES

ACCOMPANIED BY

ANDREW R. N. TRUELSON, ASSISTANT DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF
FAMILY SERVICES

CHARLES S. WHITE, CHIEF, DIVISION OF ADMINISTRATION,
BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES
MRS. DOROTHY B. WEST, CHIEF,

OPERATING STATISTICS

BRANCH, DIVISION OF PROGRAM STATISTICS AND ANALYSIS, BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES

DR. ELLEN B. WINSTON, COMMISSIONER OF WELFARE

ROY L. WYNKOOP, EXECUTIVE OFFICER, WELFARE ADMINISTRATION

JAMES F. KELLY, DEPARTMENT BUDGET OFFICER

SALARIES AND EXPENSES

Mr. THOMAS. Let us look at salaries and expenses, Bureau of Family Services. If there is a general statement put it in the record. (The following statement was submitted for the record:)

STATEMENT BY ACTING DIRECTOR, BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES

Mr. Chairman, to date additional funds have not been made available to enable the Bureau to handle the very substantial increase in responsibilities and workload resulting from enactment of the Public Welfare Amendments to 1962. (Funds for this purpose were approved last year by both the House and the Senate but the bill in which they were included failed of enactment.)

Of the total request of $452,000, an amount of $313,000 is to provide 95 positions for the remainder of this fiscal year. These additional positions are for essential activities that must be performed at the Federal level to carry out the many changes called for in the new legislation to improve the Nation's public welfare program. The balance of the supplemental request, $139,000, is the net additional operating cost for present staff due to the recent increase in salary rates of Federal employees.

In the earlier statement on public assistance grants, I described some of the major provisions of the 1962 welfare legislation. By way of summary, I would like to say that these amendments are being hailed as a "major breakthrough" in public assistance they provide for some 14 substantial and diversified changes to improve these programs and introduce some of the most far-reaching changes

in the public assistance programs since enactment of the Social Security Act

in 1935.

The new legislation makes available more Federal funds for expanded services for the rehabilitation of recipients and for the training of caseworkers in the skills and services that will help free families from reliance on public assistance. The amendments authorize for the first time Federal contributions to community work and training projects and provide useful new incentives for those capable of work to seek jobs. Special protection is provided against abuses in money management that have reflected upon the program of aid to families with dependent children. The new legislation permits experimentation by the States and localities in improved methods and authorizes waiver of requirements for statewide uniformity where it is thought that pilot projects may be constructive. These amendments express the congressional conviction that public assistance can and should do more to rehabilitate dependent individuals and to lessen or prevent continuing dependency.

To date there has not been sufficient Bureau staff to adequately handle the most urgent work related to the new legislation. Only the most basic policies essential for States to begin developing plan material have been issued, and these are not yet completed. Many additional policies and standards and guide materials must be developed by the Bureau for most of the amendments. Counseling and other technical assistance must be furnished to individual States and on a nationwide basis on methods of carrying out the amendments, including the all-important task of assuring that program goals and improved administration are reflected in such work.

Most of the amendments require submittal of plan material by the States and action by the Bureau on such submittals. General consultative services and advice on conformity of State programs with Federal requirements will be necessary in many instances. Facilities to provide information and answer inquiries, and providing a system for obtaining and compiling data for servicing these needs, are greatly accelerated by the amendments.

This supplemental request for 95 positions is to enable the Bureau to proceed to develop policy and operating procedures, carrying out the day-to-day operations, and to provide the stimulation and guidance and other kinds of assistance that should be available for the completely new measures-and opportunities-that now exist for creating a new image of public welfare.

Aside from the 1962 amendments, other legislative changes in the past several years have resulted in stepped-up workloads for the Bureau and require a large proportion of Bureau staff time for continuing day-to-day activities. Present staff have handled some of the most urgent work stemming from the 1962 amendments to date only through considerable overtime, postponement of other essential work, and the accumulation of backlogs in virtually all areas.

The Bureau's heavy involvement this fiscal year in the special administrative review of eligibility in the dependent children's program directed to be made by the Senate Appropriations Committee has magnified the drain on Bureau resources. State legislatures which began to convene in regular biennial sessions in January have proceeded to consider legislation needed to implement some of the amendments. Requests for Bureau assistance have, of course, increased during this period, but the impact on Bureau workload will become the heaviest as State legislative actions are reflected in plan submittals and as actual program operations commence in the States.

The importance of assistance to the States in this crucial developmental stage of major program changes such as provided by the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962 cannot be overemphasized. The effectiveness of this assistance depends to a considerable extent upon the type, the timeliness, and the amount of leadership provided by the Bureau.

Mr. Chairman, the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962 make it possible for the States to offer incentives to recipients of public assistance to improve their conditions and provide incentives to the States to work toward reducing the need for assistance by restoring recipients, wherever possible, to useful, productive lives. The Bureau of Family Services needs sufficient resources to provide the leadership, interpretation, and guidance necessary to assure that the goals of the 1962 amendments become reality.

The detailed justification material provides additional information on all the Bureau's major activities. If you and the members of the committee have any questions, I shall do my best to answer them.

SUMMARY OF 1963 REQUEST

Mr. THOMAS. Mr. Reporter, put pages 2, 3, 4, and 5 in the record. (The pages follow:)

SALARIES AND EXPENSES, BUREAU OF FAMILY SERVICES

"For an additional amount for 'Salaries and expenses, Bureau of Family Services,' $452,000."

Includes comparative transfer of $65,000 from "Assistance for repatriated U.S. nationals."