ABSTRACT
The Family Assistance Plan is a revolutionary effort to reform a welfare system in crisis. With this program and the Administration's proposed Food Stamp plan, the Federal Government launches a new strategy—an income strategy—to deal with most critical domestic problems. The eventual transfer of the Food Stamp Program to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare—as previously proposed by the Administration—should further enhance this administrative simplification. The Family Assistance Plan has a major impact on several other Federal programs bearing on the poor. Certain changes in the programs of services for Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) recipients under Title IV of the Social Security Act are necessitated as a result of the Family Assistance Plan. In the meantime, however, leaving the present AFDC services provisions intact and retaining the 75 per cent Federal matching for the financing of these programs.
