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PUBLIC LAW 85-840-AUG. 28. 1958

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amount equal to the sum of the following proportions of the total amounts expended during such quarter as aid to the permanently and totally disabled under the State plan (including expenditures for insurance premiums for medical or any other type of remedial care or the cost thereof)— " (A) four-fifths of such expenditures, not counting so much of any expenditure with respect to any month as exceeds the product of $?>0 multiplied by the total number of recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled for such month (which total number, for purposes of this subsection, means (i) the number of individuals who received aid to the permanently and totally disabled in the form of money payments for such month, plus (ii) the number of other individuals with respect to whom expenditures were made in such month as aid to the permanently and totally disabled in the form of medical or any other type of remedial care); plus " (B) the Federal percentage of the amount by which such expenditures exceed the maximum which may be counted under clause (A), not counting so much of any expenditure with respect to any month as exceeds the product of $65 multiplied by the total number of such recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled for such month; and (2) in the case of Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam, an amount equal to one-half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as aid to the permanently and totally disabled under the State plan (including expenditures for insurance premiums for medical or any other type of remedial care or the cost thereof), not counting so much of any expenditure with respect to any month as exceeds $35 multiplied by the total number of recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled for such month; and (3) in the case of any State, an amount equal to one-half of the total of the sums expended during such quarter as found necessary by the Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare for the proper and efficient administration of the State plan, including services which are provided by the staff of the State agency (or of the local agency administering the State plan in the political subdivision) to applicants for and recipients of aid to the permanently and totally disabled to help them attam self-support or self-care." FEDERAL M A T C H I N G PERCENTAGE 42 USC 1301.

SEC. 505. Subsection (a) of section 1101 of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new paragraph: "(8)(A) The 'Federal percentage' for any State (other than Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam) shall be 100 per centum less the State percentage; and the State percentage shall be that percentage which bears the same ratio to 50 per centum as the square of the per capita income of such State bears to the square of the per capita income of the continental United States (excluding Alaska); except that (i) the Federal percentage shall in no case be less than 50 per centum or more than 65 per centum, and (ii) the Federal percentage shall be 50 per centum for Alaska and Hawaii. " (B) The Federal percentage for each State (other than Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam) shall be promulgated by the Secretary between July 1 and August 31 of each even-numbered year, on the basis of the average per capita income of each State and of the continental United States (excluding Alaska) for the three most recent calendar years for which satisfactory data are available from the Department of Commerce. Such

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