Memo: Members Meeting/Concerns Re Finance Bill on SSI
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- Memo: Members Meeting/Concerns Re Finance Bill on SSI
- Description (Dublin Core)
- Memorandum regarding changes made and notes about the finance bill on SSI (supplemental security income).
- Date (Dublin Core)
- 1995-05-18
- Date Created (Dublin Core)
- 1995-05-18
- Congress (Dublin Core)
- 104th (1995-1997)
- Topics (Dublin Core)
- See all items with this valueFamily policy
- See all items with this valueFinance
- See all items with this valueMedicaid
- See all items with this valueSocial security
- See all items with this valueSupplemental security income program
- Policy Area (Curation)
- Social Welfare
- Creator (Dublin Core)
- Vachon, Alexander
- Record Type (Dublin Core)
- memorandums
- Names (Dublin Core)
- See all items with this valueConrad, Kent, 1948-
- See all items with this valueMoynihan, Daniel P. (Daniel Patrick), 1927-2003
- Location representation (Dublin Core)
- Kansas (state)
- Rights (Dublin Core)
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/
- Language (Dublin Core)
- eng
- Collection Finding Aid (Dublin Core)
- https://dolearchivecollections.ku.edu/?p=collections/findingaid&id=54&q=
- Physical Location (Dublin Core)
- Collection 021, Box 3, Folder 7
- Institution (Dublin Core)
- Robert J. Dole Institute of Politics, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS
- Archival Collection (Dublin Core)
- Alec Vachon Papers, 1969-2006
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MEMORANDUM TO SENATOR DOLE
DA: May 18, 1995
FR: Alec Vachon
RE: MEMBERS MEETING/CONCERNS RE FINANCE BILL ON SSI
The issue you may wish to raise on children's SSI is whether the Committee feels it has had sufficient hearings and received the information it needs to proceed in an orderly way on revamping the Children's SSI program.
Based on conversations with Finance staff (with whom I have worked closely), the Chairman's bill will have tighter eligibility for children's SSI--but make no changes in the kinds of benefits children receive (currently a cash/Medicaid combo). The provisions seem sound--based on extensive conversations with experts, GAO, SSA, Kansans, etc. But any changes will be political dynamite.
The Finance bill will drop more children that either the Conrad bill released last Thursday and a Moynihan bill in the works--but perhaps not by much (no actual estimates yet).
The "glide path" for dropping children is far more generous than the House bill (Senate--after a review to determine if the child still qualifies vs. dropped automatically after 6 months in the House) .
Finance will also drop SSI for all aliens--but leave them eligible for other public welfare programs such as food stamps.
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