Mickey Leland Childhood Hunger Relief Act (Secretary Mike Espy): Hearing Before the Committee on Agriculture, House of Representatives, One Hundred Third Congress, First Session, on H.R. 529, April 28, 1993U.S. Government Printing Office, 1993 - 84 pages |
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administration AFDC Agriculture reported amends section Americans benefit levels budget Chairman Charlie Stenholm child support Childhood Hunger Relief Committee on Agriculture Committee on Hunger CONG CONGRESS THE LIBRARY Consumer Relations Current law determining Food Stamp disabled members Domestic Marketing elderly Electronic Benefit Transfer EMERSON employment and training exclude Federal food aid food assistance programs food for progress Food Stamp Act food stamp benefits Food Stamp Program funding GRESS THE LIBRARY Hearing Serial held a hearing homeless hunger issues Hunger Relief Act income increase Leland Childhood Hunger Leon Panetta LIBRARY CONGRESS LIBRARY OF CONGR LIBRARY OF CONGRESS low-income Mickey Leland bill Mickey Leland Childhood MIKE ESPY million month Nutrition held participation PAT ROBERTS percent problems receiving food stamps reimbursements Rept Secretary ESPY signed into P.L. Somalia Stamp Act Stenholm Subcommittee on Domestic TEFAP Thank thrifty food plan Tim Penny TITLE USDA vendor payments welfare reform
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Page 38 - ... in the Consumer Price Index For All Urban Consumers, published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics of the Department of Labor.
Page 39 - ... a group of individuals who live together and customarily purchase food and prepare meals together.
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Page 39 - Household" means (1) an individual who lives alone or who, while living with others, customarily purchases food and prepares meals for home consumption separate and apart from the others, or...
Page 47 - ... 1989 include only those paid out of food stamp appropriation and the food stamp portion of the general appropriation for food program administration. Figures for earlier years include estimates of food stamp related Federal administrative expenses paid out of other Agriculture Department accounts. State and local costs are estimated based on the known Federal shares and represent an estimate of all administrative expenses of participating States and other jurisdictions (including Puerto Rico).
Page 47 - All Federal administrative costs associated with the Food Stamp Program and Puerto Rico's block grant are included: Federal matching for the various administrative and employment and training expenses of States and other jurisdictions, and direct Federal administrative costs. Figures for Federal administrative costs beginning with fiscal year 1989 include only those paid out of food stamp appropriation and the food stamp portion of the general appropriation for food program administration. Figures...
Page 69 - At the federal level, wic is administered by the US Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service (FNS).
Page 47 - All benefit costs associated with the Food Stamp program and Puerto Rico's block grant are included. The benefit amounts shown in the table reflect small downward adjustments for overpayments collected from recipients and, beginning in 1989, issued but unredeemed benefits. Over time, the figures reflect both changes in benefit levels and numbers of recipients.
Page 36 - ... the first month for which an allotment is issued to a household following any period of more than a month during which the household was not certified for participation in the Food Stamp Program.
Page 41 - Thank you, Mr. Chairman, and I also wish to welcome the Secretary to our hearing.