Political Quotes

“And more, because the benefits are more generous. I suspect we will see more people moving from the AFDC rolls, in an attempt to claim some sort of disability to get into the SSI. I suggest that given the fact that this program is not rapidly increasing in many States--maybe New York and Pennsylvania being two of them--we will see a leveling off and maybe even a decline where we have in those States an opportunity to get work into these programs and get significant cost savings. And we have provided in this bill a growth factor of $1.5 billion, I think, over the next 7 years for the higher growth States to tap into more money to be able to deal with the increases in AFDC population. So we have not completely turned our backs to the possibility of growth. We hope that with the combination of the Governors being able to redesign programs with some limited additional assistance from the Federal Government, we can handle those States that are having growth problems in AFDC.”