Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1316

 95 STAT. 1290

42 USC 1381.

PUBLIC LAW 97-98—DEC. 22, 1981

pilot or experimental project implemented under this paragraph and operating as of October 1, 1981, involving the payment of the value of allotments in the form of cash to eligible households all of whose members are either age sixty-five or over or entitled to supplemental security income benefits under title XVI of the Social Security Act shall be continued until October 1, 1985, if the State so requests.". NUTRITIONAL MONITORING

7 USC 2026.

Report and recommendations to congressional committees.

SEC. 1329. Section 17(c) of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: "Further, the Secretary shall, by way of making contracts with or grants to public or private organizations or agencies, implement pilot programs to test various means of measuring on a continuing basis the nutritional status of low income people, with specisQ emphasis on people who are eligible for food stamps, in order to develop minimum common criteria and methods for systematic nutrition monitoring that could be applied on a nationwide basis. The locations of the pilot programs shall be selected to provide a representative geographic and demographic cross-section of political subdivisions that reflect natural usage patterns of health and nutritional services and that contain high proportions of low income people. The Secretary shall report on the progress of these pilot programs on an annual basis commencing on July 1, 1982, to the Committee on Agriculture of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry of the Senate, together with such recommendations as the Secretary deems appropriate.". PILOT PROJECTS TO SIMPLIFY THE PROCESSING OP APPLICATIONS FOR CERTAIN AFDC, SSI, AND MEDICAID RECIPIENTS

7 USC 2026.

42 USC 601. 42 USC 1381. 42 USC 1396.

7 USC 2014. 7 USC 2017. 42 USC 601. 42 USC 1381. 42 USC 1396.

SEC. 1330. Section 17 of the Food Stamp Act of 1977 is amended by adding at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: "(f) The Secretary may conduct no more than two statewide pilot projects (upon the request of a State) and no more than fourteen pilot projects in political subdivisions of States (upon the request of any such political subdivision) in which households that include one or more recipients of aid to families with dependent children under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act, of supplemental security income under title XVI of the Social Security Act, or of medical assistance under title XIX of the Social Security Act, and whose income does not exceed the applicable income standard of eligibility described in section 5(c) of this Act shall be deemed to satisfy the application requirements prescribed under section 5(a) of this Act and the income and resource requirements prescribed under subsections (d) through (g) of section 5 of this Act. For any pilot project carried out under this subsection, allotments provided pursuant to section 8(a) of this Act shall be based upon household size and (1) benefits paid to such household under part A of title IV or title XVI of the Social Security Act, or (2) income as determined for eligibility under title XIX of the Social Security Act, or at the option of the political subdivision or the State, the standard of need for such size household under such programs, except that the Secretary shall adjust the value of such allotments as may be necessary to ensure that the average allotment by household size for households participating in such pilot project and receiving such aid to families with dependent children, such supplemental security income, or such medical assistance, as the case may be, is not less than the average allotment which would

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