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PUBLIC LAW 85-840-AUG. 28, 1958 uALLOTMENTS TO STATES

"SEC. 522. (a) The sums appropriated for each fiscal year under section 521 shall be allotted by the Secretary for use by cooperatinjr State public-welfare agencies which have plans developed jointly by the State agency and the Secretary, as follows: He shall allot to each State such portion of $60,000 as the amount appropriated under section 521 for such year bears to the amount authorized to be so appropriated; and he shall allot to each State an amount which bears the same ratio to the remainder of the sums so appropriated for such year as the product of (1) the population of such State under the age of 21 and (2) the allotment percentage of such State (as determined under section 524) bears to the sum of the corresponding products of all the States. "(b)(1) If the amount allotted to a State under subsection (a) for any fiscal year is less than such State's base allotment, it shall be increased to such base allotment, the total of the increases thereby required being derived by proportionately reducing the amount allotted under subsection (a) to each of the remaining States, but with such adjustments as may be necessary to prevent the allotment of any such remaining State under subsection (a) from being thereby reduced to less than its base allotment. "(2) For purposes of paragraph (1) the base allotment of any State for any fiscal year means the amount which would be allotted to such State for such year under the provisions of section 521, as in effect prior to the enactment of the Social Security Amendments of 1958, as applied to an appropriation of $12,000,000. P A Y M E N T TO STATES

"SEC. 523. (a) From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotment available under this part, the Secretary shall from time to time pay to each State with a plan for child-welfare services developed as provided in this part an amount equal to the Federal share (as determined under section 524) of the total sum expended under such plan (including the cost of administration of the plan) in meeting the costs of district, county, or other local child-welfare services, in developing State services for the encouragement and assistance of adequate methods of community child-welfare organization, in paying the costs of returning any runaway child who has not attained the age of eighteen to his own community in another State, and of maintaining such child until such return (for a period not exceeding fifteen days), in cases in which such costs cannot be met by the parents of such child or by any person, agency, or institution legally responsible for the support of such child: Provided, That in developing such services for children the facilities and experience of voluntary agencies shall be utilized in accordance with child-care programs and arrangements in the States and local communities as may be authorized by the State. " (b) The method of computing and paying such amounts shall be as follows: " (1) The Secretary shall, prior to the beginning of each period for which a payment is to be made, estimate the amount to be paid to the State for such period under the provisions of subsection (a). "(2) From the allotment available therefor, the Secretary shall ay the amount so estimated, reduced or increased, as the case may be, y any sum (not previously adjusted under this section) by which he finds that his estimate of the amount to be paid the State for any prior period under this section was greater or less than the amount which should have been paid thereunc^r to the State for such prior period.

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