Other Populations

The purpose of this paper is to examine the health and disability status of AFDC families using information gathered in the 1984 Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) and to assess the implications for welfare work programs.

This paper presents the Survey of Income and Program Participation data on child care for working guardians on AFDC. These guardians use care by relatives 58% of the time for their youngest children under 6. They are thus using informal care arrangements which are generally free or low cost instead of more formal arrangements, for which one generally must pay.

This report summarizes state-by-state data on the number of children and adults in foster homes administered by child welfare or social service agencies. As of December 1985, there were approximately 261,000 children in out-of-home foster care, including 54,000 handicapped children, of whom 14,000 were mentally retarded.

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

George Carcagno, Robert Applebaum, Jon Christianson, Barbara Phillips, Craig Thornton and Joanna Will Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. July 18, 1986 This report was prepared under contract #HHS-100-80-0157 between the U.S.

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

  U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services