TABLE 7.-Aid to the blind: Expenditures for assistance and administration, by source of funds, calendar year ended Dec. 31, 1961 Amount less than 50 percent because for the fiscal year 1961 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 present legislation; accordingly expenditures from Federal funds comprised less than half the total for the period January-June 1961. 3 Less than 0.05 percent. TABLE 8.-Aid to the permanently and totally disabled: Expenditures for assistance and administration, by source of funds, calendar year ended Dec. 31, 1961 1 [Amounts in thousands] 1 1 States not shown have no program. 2 Amount less than 50 percent because for the fiscal year 1961 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 present legislation; accordingly expenditures from Federal funds comprised less than half the total for the period January-June 1961. 3 Less than 0.05 percent. TABLE 9.-General assistance: Expenditures for assistance and administration, by source of funds, calendar year ended Dec. 31, 1961 2 Represents an estimated amount for assistance payments; data for administration not available. 3 Incomplete. 4 Represents data for January-June; data for July-December not available. 5 Represents data for assistance payments; data for administration not available. 6 For administration, represents data for State office only; data for local offices not available. 7 Includes administrative costs for programs other than general assistance. 8 For administration, data incomplete. For administration, represents expenditures of local welfare department. Excludes expenditures of county commissioners or other local officials. Mr. THOMAS. Let's take up "Training of Public Welfare Personnel." Insert the appropriation language and the explanation sheets and pages 6, 7, 8, and 9 of the justifications. (The material referred to follows:) TRAINING OF PUBLIC WELFARE PERSONNEL "For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided, for training public welfare personnel, $1 million: Provided, That this amount shall be available for direct training and grants or contracts with public or nonprofit private agencies or institutions as authorized by the provisions of section 705(f) of the Social Security Act as amended by the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962 (Public Law 87-543).' EXPLANATION OF LANGUAGE This appropriation request pertains to a new authority included in the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962, Public Law 87-543, approved July 25, 1962, which authorizes the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to provide directly or through grants or contracts with institutions and others for training to increase the number of adequately trained personnel for work in the public assistance programs. [H. Doc. 514] Training of public welfare personnel Appropriation fiscal year 1963. Request (for fiscal year 1963)_ Employment: Average number current appropriation___ $1, 000, 000 0 PURPOSE AND NEED FOR SUPPLEMENTAL FUNDS The Public Welfare Amendments of 1962, Public Law 87-543, approved July 25, 1962, included a provision that made substantive changes in the training authority in section 705 of the Social Security Act, as amended. These changes (1) made the authority in section 705 permanent (otherwise it would have expired at the end of fiscal year 1963); and (2) added a new provision which authorized the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare to carry out a training program for increasing the number of adequately trained personnel available for work in the public assistance programs (either directly or through grants to, or contracts with, public or nonprofit private institutions)-this appropriation request is related only to this new method of carrying out the training program. An acute shortage of adequately trained staff in the public assistance programs has existed for some time. This situation becomes more serious when viewed against the recent expansions in program responsibilities and the increasing complexities of our society which are manifested so often in the problems found in public assistance administration. The recent legislative action by Congress in enacting the Public Assistance Amendments of 1962 recognized that better trained staff are essential to the main objective in these amendments-the provision of social services to prevent and to alleviate dependency. The $1 million requested, the amount designated in the new authority that may be used in 1963 for using methods other than grants to States for increasing the number of adequately trained public assistance personnel, is intended for direct training arrangements to be made by this Department. It is believed the training activities, that this Department plans, described in the justification which follows, clearly relate to the urgency of making the greatest impact possible on staff preparedness to deal with the preventive and rehabilitative aspects of public assistance. In addition to the need for training social work staff, there is great need for training of other key personnel such as persons for work on basic research relating to problems of dependency and rehabilitation, and to administer complicated administrative programs that require the use of new methods of data and recordkeeping. Such training will increase the effectiveness of planning, directing, and carrying out rehabilitative services for persons now or likely to become dependent. The significant potentialities that exist for preventive and rehabilitative services in the public assistance programs resulted in enactment of important new legislation by the current Congress. Positive, progressive action through numerous methods to increase the supply and to improve the capability of welfare personnel available to the public assistance programs to provide these services should be accorded highest priority. The $1 million requested for this Department's use in carrying out a more direct type of training program-that is, by employing some training staff and entering into agreements directly with universities and others (e.g., individual experts) to provide training-will help translate this priority into reality. It is emphasized that this training will augment the State's own efforts to provide more training, much of which will be of the in-service kind. JUSTIFICATION The added administrative emphasis during the past year on increasing welfare services directed toward the preventive and rehabilitative aspects of public welfare have now been further strengthened by the Public Welfare Amendments of 1962. By providing necessary resources to the States these amendments provide a framework for the public assistance programs to progress toward realization of the goal of dependency prevention and rehabilitation not heretofore possible in these programs. A paramount parallel need is better trained staff to administer the public assistance programs. The authorized increase of 75 percent in Federal financial participation in such services and the requirement of lower caseloads |