TABLE 15.-Statutory residence provisions for public assistance programs under Social Security Act, February 1948

With the exception of Alaska and Colorado, the provision is residence in the State for 5 of last 9 years cluding 1 year immediately preceding application. Alaska and Colorado do not require the year mediately preceding application.

With the exception of Vermont, the provision is residence in the State for 3 of last 9 years including 1 ar immediately preceding application." Vermont requires 3 of last 10 years and does not require the year mediately preceding application.

The provision is residence in the State for 2 of last 9 years including 1 year immediately preceding applition.

Although New Mexico has no statutory residence provision, there is an administrative requirement of of last 9 years, including 1 year immediately preceding application.

These States require residence of 1 year immediately preceding application. Georgia provides that person must have been a "bona fide resident" of the State for not less than 1 year.

States listed in this column vary in minor detail from a basic 1 year requirement.

Residence requirement waived if persons became blind while residing in State.

No approved State plan.

Residence requirement reduced to 1 year immediately preceding application if person became blind ile residing in District of Columbia.

TABLE 16.-Federal grants for public assistance per capita, by State, 1946-1947

NOTE.-Computations in Column 3 based on unrounded data.

Source: Column 1, annual report, Federal Security Agency, 1947, p. 166; column 2, estimated by Buresti

of the Census; column 4, Survey of Current Business, August 1947.

APPENDIX III-B. MEMORANDUM OF DISSENT BY FOUR MEMBERS FROM THE MAJORITY REPORT WITH RESPECT TO FEDERAL PARTICIPATION IN GENERAL ASSISTANCE

Those opposing the extension of Federal grants to include general ssistance are fully cognizant of the pressing need to improve the tandards and effectiveness of this type of social-welfare program. They believe, however, that the extension and liberalization of the ocial insurances and the improvement of the program for aid to ependent children currently recommended by this Council, if adopted, ill in time materially reduce the burden of general assistance to be orne by the States and localities. Further, they are convinced that eneral assistance for persons of working age is in particular, under our orm of government, the responsibility of the State and locality, since ustained and immediate participation by community representatives essential to the effective and economical administration of this form assistance. They would favor the broadening of the existing proam of Federal participation in State aid to the blind to cover persons working age who are totally and permanently disabled by other pecified physical impairments of an equally serious and demonstrable

aracter.

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APPENDIX III-C. STAFF FOR PUBLIC ASSISTANCE

Robert M. Ball, staff director.

Fedele F. Fauri, research director.

Leona V. MacKinnon, executive assistant.

Helen Livingston, research assistant.

Donald S. Howard, director, department of social-work administration, Russell Sage Foundation, acted as consultant.

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Part IV

UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE

INTRODUCTION AND SUMMARY

cteristics of State-Federal Unemployment Insurance ng the long and deep depression of the 1930's, the United States acutely aware of the plight of millions of men and women who employed through no fault of their own. Although up to that y one State had enacted an unemployment insurance law, the Government took steps in 1935 to provide unemployment int an early date for a large proportion of the industrial and al labor force. The Social Security Act of 1935, however, et up a single Federal system of unemployment insurance. rough a tax-offset device, it encouraged the States to estabown systems conforming to a few broad Federal standards. rears, the 48 States, the District of Columbia, Alaska, and unemployment insurance laws.

eral Government levies a 3 percent tax on the pay rolls of In business and industry who have eight or more emhis tax can be offset-up to 90 percent-by contributions loyers under approved State laws. A State law can be ly if the funds collected under it are deposited to the nt in a trust fund in the Federal Treasury to be used by clusively for the payment of unemployment insurance thermore, the benefits provided under the State law hrough public employment offices "or such other agencies 1 Security Administrator may approve." In general, ndards have been established relating to such benefit mount or duration of benefits. One Federal standard efits, however, was set as a condition for tax offset; nefits under the State law shall not be denied to any le individual for refusing to accept new work (1) if the is vacant due directly to a labor dispute; (2) if the ›ns offered are substantially less favorable than those milar work in the locality; or (3) if, as a condition he individual must join a company union or resign rom joining any bona fide labor organization.

to employment stabilization, employers were ainst the Federal tax, not only for contributions also for contributions which were waived because ntribution rate was reduced by the State on the ence with unemployment "or other factors directly oyment risk."

timulating the enactment of State unemployment Federal Government undertook to assure adequate