New and Pending Demonstration Project Proposals Submitted Pursuant to Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act: April 1996

DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families

New and Pending Demonstration Project Proposals Submitted

Pursuant to Section 1115(a) of the Social Security Act: April 1996

AGENCY: Administration for Children and Families, HHS.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: This notice lists new proposals for welfare reform and

combined welfare reform/Medicaid demonstration projects submitted to

the Department of Health and Human Services for the month of April,

1996. It includes both those proposals being considered under the

standard waiver process and those being considered under the 30 day

process. Federal approval for the proposals has been requested pursuant

to section 1115 of the Social Security Act. This notice also lists

proposals that were previously submitted and are still pending a

decision and projects that have been approved since April 1, 1995. The

Health Care Financing Administration is publishing a separate notice

for Medicaid only demonstration projects.

Comments: We will accept written comments on these proposals. We

will, if feasible, acknowledge receipt of all comments, but we will not

provide written responses to comments. We will, however, neither

approve nor disapprove new proposals under the standard application

process for at least 30 days after the date of this notice to allow

time to receive and consider comments. Direct comments as indicated

below.

ADDRESSES: For specific information or questions on the content of a

project contact the State contact listed for that project.

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Comments on a proposal or requests for copies of a proposal should

be addressed to: Howard Rolston, Administration for Children and

Families, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, S.W., Aerospace Building, 7th Floor

West, Washington DC 20447. FAX: (202) 205-3598 PHONE: (202) 401-9220.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

I. Background

Under Section 1115 of the Social Security Act (the Act), the

Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) may approve research and

demonstration project proposals with a broad range of policy

objectives.

In exercising her discretionary authority, the Secretary has

developed a number of policies and procedures for reviewing proposals.

On September 27, 1994, we published a notice in the Federal Register

(59 FR 49249) that specified (1) the principles that we ordinarily will

consider when approving or disapproving demonstration projects under

the authority in section 1115(a) of the Act; (2) the procedures we

expect States to use in involving the public in the development of

proposed demonstration projects under section 1115; and (3) the

procedures we ordinarily will follow in reviewing demonstration

proposals. We are committed to a thorough and expeditious review of

State requests to conduct such demonstrations.

On August 16, 1995, the Secretary published a notice in the Federal

Register (60 FR 42574) exercising her discretion to request proposals

testing welfare reform strategies in five areas. Since such projects

can only incorporate provisions included in that announcement, they are

not subject to the Federal notice procedures. The Secretary proposed a

30 day approval process for those provisions. As previously noted, this

notice lists all new or pending welfare reform demonstration proposals

under section 1115. Where possible, we have identified the proposals

being considered under the 30 day process. However, the Secretary

reserves the right to exercise her discretion to consider any proposal

under the 30 day process if it meets the criteria in the five specified

areas and the State requests it or concurs.

II. Listing of New and Pending Proposals for the Month of April,

1996

As part of our procedures, we are publishing a monthly notice in

the Federal Register of all new and pending proposals. This notice

contains proposals for the month of April, 1996.

Project Title: California--Work Pays Demonstration Project

(Amendment).

Description: Would amend Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding

provisions to: reduce benefit levels by 10% (but retaining the need

level); reduce benefits an additional 15% after 6 months on assistance

for cases with an able-bodied adult; time-limit assistance to able-

bodied adults to 24 months, and not increase benefits for children

conceived while receiving AFDC.

Date Received: 3/14/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Glen Brooks, (916) 657-3291.

Project Title: California--Work Pays Demonstration Project

(Amendment).

Description: Would amend the Work Pays Demonstration Project by

adding provisions to not increasing AFDC benefits to families for

additional children conceived while receiving AFDC.

Date Received: 11/9/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

Project Title: California--Assistance payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding provisions

to California to allow two additional AFDC benefit reductions: (1)

reduce the Maximum Aid Payment (MAP) by 4.9 percent across-the-board

statewide; and (2) divide California counties into two regions based on

housing costs, and reduce both the Need Standard and the MAP in the

region with the lower costs. In addition, the State is requesting

blanket authority for future reductions in AFDC payment levels in

conjunction with welfare reform state law changes.

Date Received: 3/13/96.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

Project Title: California--Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Would amend the Assistance Payments Demonstration

Project/California Work Pays Demonstration Project by adding provisions

to allow one additional provision: income of a senior parent living in

the same household with a minor parent with a dependent child will not

be deemed to the minor parent's child.

Date Received: 3/13/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bruce Wagstaff, (916) 657-2367.

Project Title: Florida--Family Responsibility Act.

Description: Statewide, would require dependent children and

caretaker relatives under age 18 to remain in school; pay half the AFDC

benefit increment for the first child conceived by an AFDC recipient

and provide no cash benefits for a second or subsequent child; exclude

from the AFDC budget child support payments for children subject to the

family cap; require AFDC recipients not participating in JOBS or

actively seeking employment to engage in 20 hours per week of community

employment or work experience.

Date Received: 10/4/95.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Sallie P. Linton, (904) 921-5572.

Project Title: Georgia--Jobs First Project.

Description: In ten pilot counties, would replace AFDC payment with

paid employment; extend transitional Medicaid to 24 months; eliminate

100 hour employment rule for eligibility determination in AFDC--UP

cases.

Date Received: 7/5/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending (not previously published).

Contact Person: Nancy Meszaros, (404) 657-3608.

Project Title: Hawaii--Families Are Better Together.

Description: Statewide, would eliminate 100-hour, attachment to the

work force, 30 day unemployment and principal wage earner criteria for

AFDC-UP families.

Date Received: 5/22/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia Murakami, (808) 586-5230.

Project Title: Illinois--Six Month Paternity Establishment

Demonstration.

Description: In 20 counties, would require the establishment of

paternity, unless good cause exists, within 6 months of application or

redetermination as a condition of AFDC and Medicaid eligibility for

both mother and child; would deny Medicaid to children age 7 and under,

exclude children from filing rules, and exempt Department from making

protective payments to eligible children, when custodial parent has not

cooperated in

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establishing paternity; delegate the establishment of paternity in

uncontested cases to caseworkers who perform assistance payment or

social service functions under title IV-A or XX.

Date Received: 7/18/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Karan D. Maxson, (217) 785-3300.

Project Title: Indiana--Impacting Families Welfare Reform

Demonstration--Amendments.

Description: Statewide, proposes expansions and amendments to

current demonstration to impose a lifetime 24-month limit on cash

assistance and categorical Medicaid eligibility (12 months for resident

alien); allow 1 month AFDC credit (to a maximum of 24 at any one time)

for each 6 consecutive months full-time employment; count each month of

AFDC receipt from another state within the previous 3 years as 1 month

against the lifetime limit; restrict permissible ``specified

relatives'' for AFDC children and minor parents; extend AFDC, Medicaid,

and food stamp fraud disqualification penalties; establish 3 unexcused

absences per year as the statewide definition of unacceptable school

attendance; provide a voucher equal to 50% of assistance amount for

family cap child for goods and services related to child care; divert

AFDC grants to subsidize child care costs; establish an option for an

employed AFDC recipient to receive guaranteed child care or an AFDC

payment equal to the family's benefit before employment; require a

child's mother to establish paternity as a condition of eligibility for

the child and the caretaker; establish additional conditions of

eligibility for AFDC; impose penalties for illegal drug use; base CWEP

hours on the combined value of AFDC and Medicaid assistance; make JOBS

volunteers subject to the same sanctions as mandatory participants;

continue eligibility for AFDC recipients until countable income reaches

100% of the federal poverty guidelines; expand voluntary quit

definition and penalties; impose income limits on transitional Medicaid

and child care and limit each to 12 months in a person's lifetime; with

some exceptions, deny Medicaid under all coverage provisions to those

determined ineligible as a result of AFDC welfare reform provisions;

restrict Medicaid payments made to employees with employer's health

care benefits to the lesser of the employee's insurance premium or the

amount the state would otherwise pay; and require minor parents to live

with a legally responsible adult and count the income and resources of

non-parent adults.

Additional provisions: Food Stamp recipients could be required to

participate CWEP and job search; increase AFDC and Food Stamp penalties

for non-compliance with CWEP and job search; require cooperation with

child support as condition of eligibility for Food Stamps.

Date Received: 12/14/95; Amendment received 2/6/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: James H. Hmurovich, (317) 232-4704.

Project Title: Kansas--Actively Creating Tomorrow for Families

Demonstration.

Description: Amended pending demonstration to provide that the

demonstration would: replace $30 and 1/3 income disregard with

continuous 40% disregard; disregard lump sum income, income and

resources of children in school and interest income; count income and

resources of adults, and at State option children, who receive SSI;

exempt one vehicle without regard for equity value; eliminate 100-hour

rule and work history requirements for UP cases; expand AFDC

eligibility to pregnant women in 1st and 2nd trimesters; eliminate

eight week job search limitation; allow alcohol and drug screening and

treatment as a JOBS activity; eliminate the 20-hour work requirement

limit for parents with children under 6; delay the effective date of

changes in household composition; make work requirements in the AFDC

and Food Stamp programs more uniform; and increase sanctions for not

cooperating with child support enforcement activities and violations of

employment and JOBS requirements.

Date Received: 7/26/94; amendment received 4/30/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New (Amendment).

Contact Person: Diane Dystra, (913) 296-3028.

Project Title: Maine--Welfare to Work Program.

Description: Statewide, would require caretaker relatives to sign a

family contract; require participation in parenting classes and health

care services; provide one-time vendor payments in lieu of AFDC for the

purpose of obtaining/retaining employment; provide voucher payments to

both married and unmarried minor parents; limit JOBS exemptions; expand

eligibility for Transitional Medicaid and Child Care and replace

sliding-scale fees with flat-rate fees; reduce Transitional Medicaid

reporting requirements; disregard entire value of one vehicle; and

apply any federal savings to the JOBS program services. In selected

sites, implement ASPIRE-Plus, a subsidized employment program, would

cash out food stamps, divert AFDC benefits and pass through all child

support collected to families who participate in ASPIRE-Plus.

Date Received: 9/20/95.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Susan Dustin, (207) 287-3104.

Project Title: Maryland.

Description: Statewide, would expand, with some modifications,

previously approved Family Investment Program (FIP) pilot county

provisions to be statewide and introduce new provisions: replace the

current $90 and $30-and-one-third exclusions with a flat 20% earned

income deduction, 50% for self-employed earned income; limit the child

care disregard to $175 in all cases; allow case managers to set AFDC

certification periods up to 1 year and require eligibility to be re-

established before the end of each certification period; modify JOBS

exemption requirements; allow $2,000 in countable resources and exclude

one vehicle per household, life insurance, and certain real property;

count stepparent income only if it is more than 50% of the poverty

level; allow non-custodial parents and stepparents to participate in

JOBS; provide welfare avoidance grants of up to 3 months benefit amount

(up to 12 months in special circumstances); allow IV-A child care funds

in lieu of AFDC for families diverted from cash assistance; impose

immediate full-family sanctions for fraud and for failure to cooperate

with JOBS or child support enforcement requirements; reduce the adverse

notification period to 5 days; eliminate the $50 child support pass-

through; allow only 1 assistance unit per family or payee; eliminate

deprivation as an eligibility factor; change treatment of lump sums;

eliminate JOBS assessment and employability plans; and modify JOBS

program requirements.

Date Received: 4/26/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Kathy Cook, (410) 767-7055.

Project Title: Michigan--To Strengthen Michigan Families

Demonstration Project (Amendment).

Description: Statewide, would require minor parents to live with

their parent or other suitable adult; and require minor parents who

have not graduated

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from high school to attend school as a condition of family eligibility.

Date Received: 4/26/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Dan Cleary, (517) 335-0015.

Project Title: Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP)

(Amendment)

Description: Would amend MFIP by adding Ramsey County as an MFIP

site. MFIP provisions include: a consolidation of AFDC, Food Stamps,

and the State's Family General Assistance program into one cash grant,

with a single set of rules and procedures; eligibility based on net

income only; an asset limit of $2,000, with an exemption for vehicles

with a combined equity value of up to $4,500; elimination of the 100-

hour and work history rules for two-parent families; a benefit equal to

the maximum grant increased by 20 percent, minus net income (net income

excludes 38 percent of gross earnings), but benefits may not exceed the

maximum grant level, which equals the combined value of AFDC and Food

Stamps; child care is paid directly to the child care provider, up to

the county maximum rate; a 10 percent grant reduction for non-compliant

parents; mandatory participation in MFIP employment and training

services for non-exempt, long-term recipients. MFIP operates in seven

counties and the amendment would add Ramsey County.

Date Received: 3/29/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Chuck Johnson (612) 297-4727.

Project Title: Minnesota--Work First Program.

Description: In pilot counties, would provide vendor payments in

lieu of regular AFDC benefits for applicants' rent and utilities for up

to six months; sanction for at least six months job-ready applicants

who fail to comply with job search and other applicants who fail to

participate in JOBS orientation; and require part-time CWEP of

unemployed, nonexempt job-ready individuals who fail to participate in

job search for 32 hours/week or who after eight weeks of job search are

not employed for at least 32 hours/week or not self-employed with a net

income equal to the family's AFDC benefit. Individuals who refuse to

participate in CWEP or are terminated from a CWEP job would incur a

whole family sanction and become ineligible for AFDC for at least six

months. Non-job-ready participants would be assigned appropriate

education and training. Post-placement services would be provided for

up to 180 days and Transitional Child Care and Medicaid without regard

to AFDC receipt in 3 of the 6 months preceding ineligibility.

Date Received: 4/4/96.

Type: AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Gus Avenido, (612) 296-1884.

Project Title: Minnesota--AFDC Barrier Removal Project.

Description: Statewide, would expand AFDC-UP eligibility; treat

minor parents living with a caretaker parent on AFDC as a separate

filing unit and disregard the caretaker parents' earned income up to

200 percent of the federal poverty guideline; disregard earned income

of dependent children who are at least half-time students as well as

all their savings deposited into an individual development account;

increase the auto-equity limit to $4,500; cease recovering overpayments

(once every two years per case) due to an individual's new employment

resulting in ineligibility; and determine AFDC benefit amount for a

family in which all members have resided in the State for less than 12

months based on the payment standard of the state of immediate prior

residence if less than Minnesota's.

Date Received: 4/4/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Ann Sessoms, (612) 296-0978.

Project Title: New Hampshire--Earned Income Disregard Demonstration

Project.

Description: AFDC applicants and recipients would have the first

$200 plus 1/2 the remaining earned income disregarded.

Date Received: 9/20/93.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Avis L. Crane, (603) 271-4255.

Project Title: New Hampshire--New Hampshire Employment Program and

Family Assistance Program.

Description: Statewide, would replace AFDC with Employment Program

administered by both Employment Security Agency and Family Assistance

Program; require job search and other employment-related activities for

first 26 weeks of receipt followed by work-related activities for 26

weeks; eliminate JOBS target group funding requirement and change JOBS

reporting requirements; require recipients attending post-secondary or

part-time vocational training to participate in work-related

activities; eliminate JOBS services priority for volunteers; establish

limits for provision of transportation and other JOBS services based on

activity and local conditions; eliminate remoteness as exemption from

JOBS; require non-custodial parents to participate in JOBS; increase

earned income disregard to 50%; eliminate AFDC-UP eligibility

requirements; allow transitional case management for up to one year;

raise resource limit to $2,000 and exclude one vehicle and life

insurance policies; pass through child support directly to family; take

SSI income into account in determining eligibility/payment; eliminate

conciliation and apply JOBS sanction of 50% of AFDC benefits for three

months followed by no payment for three months, allowing option to

increase initial sanction up to 100%; exempt pregnant women from JOBS

only during third trimester; for minor parents cases, include in

assistance unit any parent or sibling living in the home; eliminate

gross income test; disregard educational grants; allow emergency

assistance for families with employment-related barriers; allow State

to eliminate the certificate option for child care and development

block grant funds and use of these funds for capital improvement;

eliminate ceiling on At Risk Child Care funds; provide that FFP for

AFDC not be reduced during life of demonstration; fund computer system

modifications at 80% FFP; require pregnant recipients to cooperate with

child support; require that AFDC apply for Medicaid as a unit and not

individually; eliminate requirement of receipt of AFDC for 3 of last 6

months in order to receive transitional Medicaid; and allow State to

require that some individuals be assigned to a managed care program;

substitute outcome measures for JOBS participation rates; change

participation requirements for parents with children under 6, UP

recipients and minors; establish a medical deduction; increase the

sanction for non-cooperation with child support; exempt individuals

with significant employment barriers from JOBS; treat lump sum income

and all real property, except a home, as a resource; and use 20% of

gross earned income as a Medicaid disregard. Also contains various Food

Stamp waivers.

Date Received: 9/18/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek, (603) 271-4442.

Project Title: New Hampshire--New Hampshire Employment Program.

Description: In three pilot sites, would require work after 6

months of AFDC receipt; eliminate the exemption from JOBS for women in

the second trimester

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of pregnancy; eliminate the JOBS exemption for caretaker of a child

under 3 but not less than 1 year of age; replace the earned income

disregard of $90 and $30 and \1/3\ with a 50% disregard which is not

time-limited; raise the resource limit for recipients to $2,000;

disregard full value of one vehicle per adult for applicants and

recipients; apply a full family sanction voluntarily quitting a job or

refusing to accept a job; apply a sanction of reducing the payment

standard by 30% for one month for failure to comply with JOBS in the

first instance, by 60% in the second instance for one month, and in the

third instance apply a full-family sanction for three months or until

compliance; and require non-custodial parents to participate in JOBS.

Date Received: 10/6/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Marianne Broshek, (603) 271-4442.

Project Title: Oklahoma--Welfare Self-Sufficiency Initiative.

Description: In four pilots conducted in five counties each, would

(1) extend transitional child care to up to 24 months; (2) require that

all children through age 18 be immunized and require that responsible

adults with preschool age children participate in parent education or

enroll the children in Head Start or other preschool program; (3) not

increase AFDC benefits after birth of additional children, but provide

voucher payment for the increment of cash benefits that would have been

received until the child is two years old; and (4) pay lesser of AFDC

benefit for previous state of residence or Oklahoma's for 12 months for

new residents.

Date Received: 10/27/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Raymond Haddock, (405) 521-3076.

Project Title: Pennsylvania--School Attendance Improvement Program.

Description: In 7 sites, would require school attendance as

condition of eligibility.

Date Received: 9/12/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia H. O'Neal, (717) 787-4081.

Project Title: Pennsylvania--Savings for Education Program.

Description: Statewide, would exempt as resources college savings

bonds and funds in savings accounts earmarked for vocational or

secondary education and disregard interest income earned from such

accounts.

Date Received: 12/29/94.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Patricia H. O'Neal, (717) 787-4081.

Project Title: South Carolina--Family Independence Program.

Description: Statewide, would, with exceptions, time limit AFDC

benefits to families with able bodied adults to 24 months out of 120

months, not to exceed 60 months in a lifetime; eliminate increase in

AFDC benefit resulting from birth of children 10 or more months after

the family begins AFDC receipt, but provide benefits to such children

in the form of vouchers for goods and services permitting child's

mother to participate in education, training, and employment-related

activities; eliminate deprivation requirements, principal earner

provisions, work history requirements, and 100-hour rule for AFDC-UP;

increase AFDC resource limit to $2,500 and disregard as resources one

vehicle with a market value up to $10,000, the balance in an Individual

Development Account (IDA) up to $10,000, and the cash value of life

insurance; disregard from income up to $10,000 in lump sum payments

deposited in an IDA within 30 days of receipt, earned income of

children attending school, and interest and dividend income up to $400;

require participation in a family skills training program; require

certain AFDC recipients to submit to random drug tests and/or

participate in alcohol or drug treatment; require children to attend

school; increase amount of child support passed through to AFDC

recipients; require more extensive information for child support

enforcement purposes; modify JOBS exemptions and good cause criteria,

and increase sanctions for non-compliance; make job search a condition

of eligibility; allow non-custodial parents of AFDC children to

participate in JOBS; pay transitional grant equaling 3 percent of the

maximum family grant following employment; and provide transitional

grant Medicaid and child care for 12 months from the date of employment

for cases previously closed due to time limit.

Date Received: 6/12/95.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Linda Martin (804) 737-6010.

Project Title: Tennessee--Families First.

Description: Statewide, would impose 18 month time limit with 60

month lifetime limit on cash assistance for non-exempt families

(extensions available under certain circumstances); require full-time

(40 hours) work or combination of work and other activities such as

education, training, or job search, unless exempt; eliminate many JOBS

exemptions including lowering youngest-child exemption to those with a

child less than 16 weeks of age; remove limits on periods of job

search; impose a family cap with no increase in benefits for additional

children; require unmarried teen parents without high school diploma or

GED to participate in education or other approved activity; deny AFDC

for three months if recipients voluntarily quit job or if applicant

voluntarily quits employment within two months of AFDC application;

impose whole family sanction for noncompliance with employment,

training or work preparation activities; impose sanctions without a

prior conciliation period; provide transitional child care and

transitional Medicaid for 18 months and without regard to months of

AFDC receipt; change earned income disregards; eliminate the 100-hour

rule, work history and quarters of work requirements when AFDC

recipient marries and disregard new stepparent's income up to set

limit; hold harmless child support arrearages owed by the new husband/

wife to his/her child in the new family unit as long as the parent

continues to reside in the home; require that applicants and recipients

sign Personal Responsibility Plan as condition of eligibility and

assure that children attend school, receive regular immunizations and

health checks, and the caretaker cooperates with child support

enforcement; impose significant sanction for failure of children to

attend school or obtain immunizations; impose whole family sanction for

failure to cooperate with child support enforcement; deny AFDC for 10

years for those convicted of fraudulently receiving benefits from two

states simultaneously; allow low-income entrepreneurs to establish

special accounts up to $5,000; conform AFDC and Food Stamp rules by

increasing resource limit to $2,000 and counting lump sum income as a

resource in the month received and after, if retained; and increase

auto limit to $4,600. In 12 counties allow individual development

accounts up to $5,000 and in 1 county operate a Responsible Fatherhood

Demonstration Pilot using IV-D funds.

Date Received: 5/1/96.

Type: Combined AFDC/Medicaid.

Current Status: New.

Contact Person: Glenda Shearon, (615) 313-5652.

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Project Title: Utah--Single-Parent Employment Demonstration

(Amendments).

Description: Would amend the current Single Parent Employment

Demonstration (SPED), requiring preschool children to be immunized and

other children to attend school; considering as a single filing unit

each family with a child in common, including all children in the

household related to either parent; permitting parents removed from the

grant due to non-cooperation or fraud to remain eligible for JOBS

services, including support services; and allowing a ``best estimate''

of earnings in lieu of actual earnings so long as estimate is within

$100 of actual earnings. These amendments would initially be limited to

the Kearns office and later expanded to other SPED sites.

Date Received: 2/7/96.

Type: AFDC.

Current Status: Pending.

Contact Person: Bill Biggs, (801) 538-4337.

III. Listing of Approved Proposals Since April 1, 1995

Project Title: Iowa--Family Investment Plan (Amendments).

Contact Person: Ann Weibers, (515) 281-7714.

IV. Requests for Copies of a Proposal

Requests for copies of an AFDC or combined AFDC/Medicaid proposal

should be directed to the Administration for Children and Families

(ACF) at the address listed above. Questions concerning the content of

a proposal should be directed to the State contact listed for the

proposal.

(Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance Program, No. 93562;

Assistance Payments--Research.)

Dated: May 6, 1996.

Howard Rolston,

Director, Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation.

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