At the same time, among households receiving food stamps, 16.2 percent received TANF, 30.2 percent received SSI, 30.5 percent received Social Security, and 26 percent were on Medicare. (The figures do not add up to 100 percent because some people received more than one benefit.) About 10.8 percent of those receiving WIC (Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children) also received TANF benefits. (See Table 6.6.)
TABLE 6.5
Percent of recipients in multiple federal assistance programs, 2002
| Ways and Means assistance programs | |||||
| Other assistance programs | TANF | SSI | Social Security | Unemployment compensation | Medicare |
| Food stamps | 80.8 | 40.2 | 6.7 | 10.6 | 6.3 |
| WIC | 35.1 | 5.2 | 1.2 | 8.4 | 0.8 |
| Medicaid | 99.6 | 96.4 | 18.2 | 23.5 | 17.8 |
| Free or reduced-price school meals | 62.3 | 17.7 | 4.3 | 16.1 | 3.0 |
| Public or subsidized rental housing | 37.6 | 22.9 | 5.6 | 3.0 | 5.6 |
| VA compensation or pensions | 1.0 | 3.6 | 4.6 | 1.4 | 4.8 |
| Number of recipients in households receiving benefits (in thousands) | 1,393 | 5,207 | 31,358 | 3,209 | 28,452 |
| Note: Table shows number of recipient households for February–May 2002. Tables read that 80.8 percent of households with TANF recipients also received food stamp benefits. | |||||
| SOURCE: "Table 15. Overview 1. Percent of Recipients in Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means Receiving Assistance from Other Major Federal Programs, 2002," in The Green Book U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC, 2004 | |||||
Between 1984 and 2002 the percentage of AFDC/TANF and SSI households who received other benefits fluctuated, but, generally, the coverage for most non-veteran benefit programs increased then declined following the passage of PRWORA in 1996. The percentage of households receiving both AFDC/TANF and food stamps declined (from 87.2 percent in 1995 to 80.8 percent in 2002). The percentage receiving both SSI and food stamps also declined over this period, from 50 percent to 40.2 percent. (See Table 6.7.)
TABLE 6.6
Recipients of federal assistance programs receiving aid from multiple programs, by percent and number, 2002
| Other assistance programs | ||||||
| Ways and Means assistance programs | Food stamps | WIC | Free or reduced-price school meals | Public or subsidized rental housing | Medicaid | VA compensation or pensions |
| TANF | 16.2 | 10.8 | 9.0 | 10.9 | 8.0 | 0.6 |
| SSI | 30.2 | 6.0 | 9.6 | 24.8 | 29.0 | 7.0 |
| Social Security | 30.5 | 8.1 | 13.9 | 36.9 | 32.9 | 54.4 |
| Unemployment compensation | 4.9 | 6.0 | 5.4 | 2.0 | 4.4 | 1.7 |
| Medicare | 26.0 | 5.1 | 9.0 | 33.5 | 29.2 | 52.3 |
| Number of recipients in households | ||||||
| receiving benefits (in thousands) | 6,924 | 4,517 | 9,620 | 4,795 | 17,322 | 2,639 |
| Note: Table shows number of recipient households for February–May 2002. Tables read that 16.2 percent of households with food stamp recipients also received TANF. | ||||||
| SOURCE: "Table 15. Overview 2. Percent of Recipients in Programs within the Jurisdiction of the Committee on Ways and Means Receiving Assistance from Other Major Federal Programs, 2002," in The Green Book U. S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC, 2004 | ||||||
TABLE 6.7
Percent of households receiving assistance from multiple federal programs, selected years 1984–2002
| Assistance program | 1984 | 1987 | 1990 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1997–98 | 2002 |
| AFDC/TANF: | |||||||||
| Food stamps | 81.4 | 81.7 | 82.7 | 86.2 | 88.9 | 88.3 | 87.2 | 81.0 | 80.8 |
| WIC | 15.3 | 18.6 | 18.7 | 21.5 | 18.5 | 21.4 | 24.7 | 30.6 | 35.1 |
| Free or reduced-price | |||||||||
| school meals | 49.2 | 55.6 | 52.7 | 55.5 | 56.9 | 57.5 | 63.1 | 60.3 | 62.3 |
| Public or subsidized | |||||||||
| rental housing | 23.0 | 19.4 | 34.7 | 29.5 | 33.1 | 30.3 | 31.1 | 21.2 | 37.6 |
| Medicaid | 93.2 | 95.5 | 97.6 | 96.2 | 97.6 | 96.4 | 97.2 | 97.3 | 99.6 |
| VA compensation or pensions | 2.8 | 1.9 | 1.3 | 1.9 | 1.1 | 1.1 | 0.8 | 1.1 | 1.0 |
| Number of households receiving | |||||||||
| benefits (in thousands) | 3,585 | 3,527 | 3,434 | 4,057 | 4,831 | 4,906 | 4,652 | 3,008 | 1,391 |
| SSI: | |||||||||
| Food stamps | 46.5 | 39.7 | 41.3 | 46.2 | 48.0 | 50.1 | 50.0 | 43.7 | 40.2 |
| WIC | 2.5 | 2.5 | 3.0 | 4.3 | 3.7 | 5.4 | 5.6 | 5.5 | 5.2 |
| Free or reduced-price | |||||||||
| school meals | 12.7 | 11.9 | 15.3 | 18.2 | 21.3 | 23.8 | 25.2 | 18.4 | 17.7 |
| Public or subsidized | |||||||||
| rental housing | 21.6 | 20.0 | 21.4 | 23.8 | 23.9 | 24.9 | 24.1 | 23.4 | 22.9 |
| Medicaid | 100.0 | 99.6 | 99.7 | 99.8 | 99.5 | 100.0 | 100.0 | 95.0 | 96.4 |
| VA compensation or pensions | 4.7 | 7.7 | 5.7 | 4.0 | 4.5 | 3.9 | 3.6 | 2.8 | 3.6 |
| Number of households receiving | |||||||||
| benefits (in thousands) | 3,008 | 3,341 | 3,037 | 3,957 | 3,861 | 4,223 | 4,580 | 4,772 | 5,207 |
| Note: Data on households interviewed between February and May 2002. | |||||||||
| SOURCE: "Table 15. Overview 3. Percent of Households Receiving TANF or SSI and Also Receiving Assistance from Other Programs, Selected Years, 1984–2002," in The Green Book U.S. House of Representatives, Committee on Ways and Means, Washington, DC, 2004 | |||||||||
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