Social Security Act of 1935
TITLE IV-GRANTS TO STATES FOR AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
Appropriation
State Plans for Aid to Dependent Children
Payment to States
Operation of State Plans
Administration
Definitions
APPROPRIATION
SECTION 401. For the purpose of enabling each State to furnish financial assistance, as far as practicable under the conditions in such State, to needy dependent children, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $24,750,000, and there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for each fiscal year thereafter a sum sufficient to carry out the purposes of this title. The sums made available under this section shall be used for making payments to States which have submitted, and had approved by the Board, State plans for aid to dependent children.
STATE PLANS FOR AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN
SEC. 402. (a) A State plan for aid to dependent children must
(1) provide that it shall be in effect in all political subdivisions
of the State, and, if administered by them, be mandatory upon them;
(2) provide for financial participation by the State;
(3) either provide for the establishment or designation of a single
State agency to administer the plan, or provide for the establishment
or designation of a single State agency to supervise the administration
of the plan;
(4) provide for granting to any individual, whose claim with respect
to aid to a dependent child is denied, an opportunity for a fair hearing
before such State agency;
(5) provide such methods of administration (other than those relating
to selection, tenure of office, and compensation of personnel) as are
found by the Board to be necessary for the efficient operation of the
plan; and
(6) provide that the State agency will make such reports, in such form
and containing such information, as the Board may from time to time
require, and comply with such provisions as the Board may from time
to time find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of
such reports.
(b) The Board shall approve any plan which fulfills the conditions specified
in subsection (a) except that it shall not approve any plan which imposes
as a condition of eligibility for aid to dependent children, a residence
requirement which denies aid with respect to any child residing in the
State
(1) who has resided in the State for one year immediately preceding
the application for such aid or
(2) who was born within the State within one year immediately preceding
the application, if its mother has resided in the State for one year
immediately preceding the birth.
SEC. 403. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor, the Secretary of
the Treasury shall pay to each State which has an approved plan for
aid to dependent children, for each quarter, beginning with the quarter
commencing July 1, 1935, an amount, which shall be used exclusively
for carrying out the State plan, equal to one-third of the total of
the sums expended during such quarter under such plan, not counting
so much of such expenditure with respect to any dependent child for
any month as exceeds $18, or if there is more than one dependent child
in the same home, as exceeds $18 for any month with respect to one such
dependent child and $12 for such month with respect to each of the other
dependent children.
(b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows:
(1) The Board shall, prior to the beginning of each quarter, estimate
the amount to be paid to the State for such quarter under the provisions
of subsection
(a), such estimate to be based on
(A) a report filed by the State containing its estimate of the total
sum to be expended in such quarter in accordance with the provisions
of such subsection and stating the amount appropriated or made available
by the State and its political subdivisions for such expenditures in
such quarter, and if such amount is less than two-thirds of the total
sum of such estimated expenditures, the source or sources from which
the difference is expected to be derived,
(B) records showing the number of dependent children in the State, and
(C) such other investigation as the Board may find necessary.
(2) The Board shall then certify to the Secretary of the Treasury the
amount so estimated by the Board, reduced or increased, as the case
may be, by any sum by which it finds that its estimate for any prior
quarter was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid
to the State for such quarter, except to the extent that such sum has
been applied to make the amount certified for any prior quarter greater
or less than the amount estimated by the Board for such prior quarter.
(3) The Secretary of the Treasury shall thereupon, through the Division
of Disbursement of the Treasury Department and prior to audit or settlement
by the General Accounting Office, pay to the State, at the time or times
fixed by the Board, the amount so certified.
SEC. 404. In the case of any State plan for aid to dependent children
which has been approved by the Board, if the Board, after reasonable
notice and opportunity for hearing to the State agency administering
or supervising the administration of such plan, finds-
(1) that the plan has been so changed as to impose any residence requirement
prohibited by section 402 (b), or that in the administration of the
plan any such prohibited requirement is imposed, with the knowledge
of such State agency, in a substantial number of cases; or
(2) that in the administration of the plan there is a failure to comply
substantially with any provision required by section 402 (a) to be included
in the plan; the Board shall notify such State agency that further payments
will not be made to the State until the Board is satisfied that such
prohibited requirement is no longer so imposed, and that there is no
longer any such failure to comply. Until it is so satisfied it shall
make no further certification to the Secretary of the Treasury with
respect to such State.
SEC. 405. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1936, the sum of $250,000 for all necessary expenses of the Board in administering the provisions of this title.
SEC. 406. When used in this title-
(a) The term dependent child means a child under the age of sixteen
who has been deprived of parental support or care by reason of the death,
continued absence from the home, or physical or mental incapacity of
a parent, and who is living with his father, mother, grandfather, grandmother,
brother, sister, stepfather, stepmother, stepbrother, stepsister, uncle,
or aunt, in a place of residence maintained by one or more of such relatives
as his or their own home;
(b) The term aid to dependent children means money payments with respect
to a dependent child or dependent children.