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Show dependent children aid " nninquponJulyl ,;Aslu- Only "J. 0, ai irf ,, , , 5 tjh IVPArtnMt of Av Lvk-fS, Assislsnc hh percent cost of I'vmS 1977 1 Arsis' ur Wl11 J Jjrffcrt t th first of the . ' 'Jjtl oc-pern house-11 house-11 ' ! ,he standard Ant wlU t Jfcwn 7 monthly to i's i $S increase. For 05 k- of (our. the i,u"rvsse 'Tyfiom $333 monthly to X i $19 incase. For a ' of ten. the Aid to aiM with Dependent virt (AFDC) grant will f from S5S5 monthly to tfbijt money change Jt'ntoa in the Medical inc Only prosram. for :5 "v iad two persons house- 3 eligibility level has . in$l67 monthly for a S jersM household to $215 i or 100 percent of the "K jj Sindard needs budget, liji two-person household, 'odd aid canbeextend-Jito canbeextend-Jito individuals with an incest S37 monthly with jaJention for medical ex- ieitM-s," llofeling noted. To ho eligible fur mediciil assistance, an individual must be disabled, blind or over age to, have a medical need or be involved in the Ah'OC assistance, assis-tance, a parent must be absent, incapacitated, or deceased, de-ceased, from a home with children. If both parents are in the home and neither are incapacitated, the father must be unemployed (working less than 100 hours monthly). llofeling noted that in some cases the increased grant level may affect the family's purchase price of food stamps. "Hut this will not occur except in very large families," he added. llofeling noted that the legislature sets the eligibility and payment levels for both AKDC program and the MAO program by law. 'The AKPC grant level is 77 percent of the standard needs budget while MAO assistance goes to 100 percent of the standard needs level," he explained. The I'tah standard budget was developed in 1970 and is updated annually. It is based on a typical urban family of . four - father, mother, boy 13 and girl 8. The typical family is characterized by 15 years of married life, with the father working. The family has an average inventory of clothing, furnishing, durables, and equipment. 'The standard needs budget bud-get takes into consideration all of the things a family needs to survive - utilities, food, medical, housing, personal expenses, ex-penses, clothing, transportation. transporta-tion. It then sets up a minimum mini-mum budget necessary to support that family. The budget bud-get is adjusted according to family composition. The assistance assis-tance budget is at the lower end of the spectrum. The July 1. 1977. budget estimates that for a family of four to survive, it will require $457 monthly. The AFDC family receives a grant of 77 percent of this amount. "What this means is that we are paying family only 77 percent of the barest minimum mini-mum they need to survive. Where we estimate that a family of five would need $457 monthly, we given them an AFDC grant of only $432," Hofeling noted. Utah ranks 16th in the nation in terms of its payments pay-ments to recipients of the AFDC oroeram. Averaee 1 payments are $81.93 per per- son. The U.S. average is 175.48. Other intermountain area states pay: Idaho $85.98, Colorado $72, Wyoming $71.18, New Mexico $44.26. Utah in 1976 ranked 6th in the nation in payment to general assistance clients. Utah paid an average of $134.22. the U.S. average was $116.36. |