t:onf. I>• • to clinic twice a month, Her older First, residence . The 'client' Grants will not be based on need must establish proof of residence and welfare recipients will again child needs school transportation. be subjected to invasions of Her current grant is $lll. Her new and continue to inform the office of any changes in residence or in privacy through home visits , grant will be $90. They will have to give independ.,.nt Ms. D. has 2 children, ages 4 the membership of the household, proof of residency, relationship, and 5. She pays $80 rent and For example: Ms. A . applies for deprivation and past management . utilities but she will not file suit welfare, She is staying with her mother and has no rent receipt . The problem IS not how to get women off welfare She must find some other way to but how to get we l fare off the backs of women. prove she lives there or she will not be eligible. They will have to register for against her husband from whom Ms. B. and her 2 children live work or training and prove they she is separated, Her current together, Her siste r , who is actively seek employment. grant is $109 . Her new grant will working, moves into the household. The assumption behind these b' $64, Ms . B. must immediate l y notify policies is that a person on Ms . E . has 3 children, ages 6, the office if her sister makes any welfare is guilty of fraud and 8 and \5, She lives in a project contribution to the household, deceit until she can prove herself and pays $8 rent and no utilities, Also since Ms. B. receives food innocent and in "legitimate" need Her current grant is $88. Her stamps from the Public Assistance of welfare , no·w grartt will be $112, Office her food stamps must be Following are excerpts from Ms. F, has 6 children, ages 4, closed and the family must r eapply the Women's Work Collective 5, 8, 9, II and 13, She pays $80 for food stamps from t he Non-Pub- Report, which is the most inten - rent and utilities. She earns lic Assistance Office. Only house- sive study made public on this issue: Th e S t ate s h ou l d do its own dirty work an d t a k e "The changes in AFDC policy respon sibility for filing charges against father s f o r include: r1 on - s uppo rt 1) the change from computed need to a flat grant, and 2) the re-introduction of the $175 a month, She pays $15 a holds in which all members are 'conventional method' . month child care and ttansporta.tion covered by welfare grants can be FL A T G R ANT to work. Her current grant is certified for food stamps by the Under the old system each fam - $25, Her new grant will be $20, welfare department, M s, B. i s ily's need is computed on the Ms. G. has 2 children, ages ll evicted. She cannot receive basis of: personal allowance per and 13. She has been sick and welfare because she has no p l ace adult and child, rent, fixed needed a nurse at home, She of residence. amount for utilities and household receives $60 from welfare for to Page 14 replacement, and medica l care. that nursing care . Her rent is Additional needs may be consider- $75 and she pays utilities . Her ed such as school transportation current grant including the and nursing care. The system nursing care is $176 . Her new currently gives 56"/o of all these grant will be $90, needs to the family. We can see from these examples The flat grant is based on a that the flat grant does not take state-wide average of last year ' s individual needs or special circum- grants, allocating money by the s t ances into consideration, Nor number of persons on the grant is it possible to raise healthy and at 60"/o of averaged need. prodUctive children on 60% or even The figures below reflect the 100% of what Mr. Bonin and--uw-- current grants in AFDC at 56% welfare department consider of computed need in comparison to necessary subsistence. the new grants at 60"/o of statewide M OD IF IED- SI M PLIF I ED M ETHOD. average need. Unde r the 'modified-simplified Ms. A. has 1 child, age 3 years, method ' the indhridual applying She lives with her mother and for or already on welfare was sup - .MEDICAL AND PSYCHQ.OGICAL pays no rent, Her current grant plying the necessary information for det ermining eligibility. Addi- INFffiMI>.TlON COUNSEUNG, AND is $42, Her new grant will be $64, tional contacts were used, with EDI.JCA'Tla-.JAL MATERIALS Ms. B. has 2 children , ages 8 the 'client ' s' permission, to ON MAnERS RELATED m and 14, She pays $60 for rent and verify information if there were SEX ut i lities, Her current grant is inconsistencies . THE COWMUNTV. SEX $108 , Her new g r ant will be $90. The ' conventional method' de - INFORMAnoN AND EWCATION SERya:, INC. Ms . C. has 2 childr en, ages 8 man~s independent proof of eve r y P.O.Jiol;424.6 and 14. She pays $60 f or r ent and requ~rement for eligibility, There .... O.W.., L• 70172 utilit ie s . He r younges t c h il d go e s a r e 4 major el i gi bilit y requirements . 1'04)097..... 6