Our Picture of Health 1998:
Focusing on Community Health to the Year 2000CHAPTER 10: SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT
COMMUNITY SAFETY
99. Caseloads and Expenditures for Social Service Assistance
Figure 10-20 shows the total caseload for December of each year (August for 1993-94). A case could be a family with more than one child or an individual. A case represents situations that are monitored. Not every case receives payment.
Effective July, 1997 Colorado Works replaced AFDC. Colorado Works (Senate Bill 120) eliminates any entitlement to assistance, but subjects it to available appropriations. Under the bill a family is allowed only 60 cumulative months assistance in a lifetime.
Other restrictions to aid also apply, including the prohibition of aid to anyone with a drug-related felony unless they are in treatment.
For the average family of one adult and two children, the maximum basic assistance grant is $356 per month or 32% of the Federal Poverty Level.
Figure 10-20: Total Monthly Caseload for Each Program
Source: Mesa County Department of Human Services
Figure 10-21 shows the total expenditures of AFDC and all major assistance programs in Mesa County. Total expenditures have not declined as sharply as AFDC because monies are being increasingly applied to job training, child care and other welfare to work assistance.
Figure 10-21: Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)
Source: Mesa County Department of Human Services
May link to . . .
- Skilled Work Force
- Education
- Unemployment Rate
- Public Policy
Programs included in totals:
- AFDC
- Child Care
- Aid to Blind
- Aid to Needy Disabled
- LEAP Energy Assistance
- Old Age Pension
1994+ Expenditures include:
- New Directions (JOBS)
- Employment First
- Colorado Works
- One Stop Career Center
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