ABSTRACT
The crippled children's services program accounts for 84 percent of the budget authority appropriated in 1981 for all seven programs. The accompanying table outlines the programs included in the block grant. The crippled children's services program provided financial support to states for medical and related services to crippled children under the age of twenty-one, and special projects of regional and national interest. The program provided formula grants to state health agencies for services, and project grants for special projects. The block grant created from several categorical grant programs will provide similar services and meet objectives similar to the old programs'. State health agencies are required to operate under a number of restrictions imposed by the reconciliation act. The 1983 Reagan budget proposals would establish a new block grant to consolidate the maternal and child health services block grant; the women's, infants', and children's nutrition program; and the commodity supplemental food program.
