welfare coverage

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Apr 26 07:33:48 PDT 1999


Max Sawicky wrote:


>FSP and Medicaid are uncoupled from AFDC, so losing TANF has no
>bearing on their eligibility for the other two.

Not legally, no, but certainly in practice. People kicked off AFDC often assume they've lost eligibility for Food Stamps & Medicaid, and no one is telling them anything to the contrary. I know this is happening in NYC - where the welfare offices have been renamed job centers - and assume it's happening elsewhere as well.

Doug



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