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Added legally adopted children and legally assigned
foster children and non-related individuals over age 60
to group of related individuals under the household
definition. |
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Allowed an elderly person receiving "meals-on-wheels" to
be considered a household for FSP purposes. |
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Added "meals-on-wheels" organizations to definition of
retail food store. |
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Added Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands to the
definition of "State" under the FSP. |
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Added the definition of "elderly person" to mean a
person sixty years of age or over who is not a resident
of an institution or boarding house, and who is living
alone, or with spouse, whether or not he has cooking
facilities in his home. |
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Added the definition of "authorization to purchase card"
to mean any document issued by the State agency to an
eligible household which shows the face value of the
coupon allotment of the household is entitled to be
issued on presentment of such document and the amount to
be paid by such household for such allotment. |
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Substituted "the State agency" in place of "an
appropriate State agency", "an opportunity to obtain" in
place of "an opportunity more nearly to obtain", and
"value than the charge to be paid for such allotment by
eligible households." in place of "value than their
normal expenditures for food." in Section 4(a) of the
1964 Act. |
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Amended disaster provision of 1964 Act to prohibit
distribution of federally donated foods to households
under the authority of any other law except: (1) during
temporary emergency situations when the Secretary
determines that commercial channels of food distribution
have been disrupted; (2) for such period of time as the
Secretary determines necessary, to effect an orderly
transition in an area in which the distribution of
federally donated foods to households is being replaced
by a FSP; or (3) on request of the State agency.
Households may not simultaneously participate in both
the FSP and receive federally donated foods. |
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Permitted the FSP participation of households that are
victims of a disaster. |
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Provided that the Secretary, in consultation with the
Secretary of HEW, establish uniform national standards
of eligibility for participation by households in the
FSP. Standards to prescribe the amounts of household
income and other financial resources, including both
liquid and non-liquid assets, to be used as criteria of
eligibility. |
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Provided that any household which includes a member who
has reached his eighteenth birthday and who is claimed
as a dependent child for Federal income tax purposes by
a taxpayer who is not a member of an eligible household,
shall be ineligible to participate in any FSP during the
tax period such dependency is claimed and for a period
of one year after expiration of such tax period. |
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Provided that the Secretary may also establish temporary
emergency standards of eligibility, without regard to
income and other financial resources, for households
that are victims of a disaster which disrupted
commercial channels of food distribution when he
determines that such households are in need of temporary
food assistance, and that commercial channels of food
distribution have again become available. |
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Provided that the Secretary establish special standards
of eligibility and coupon allotment schedules which
reflect the average per capita income and cost of
obtaining a nutritionally adequate diet in Puerto Rico,
Guam, and the Virgin Islands. These standards of
eligibility were not to exceed those in the fifty
States. |
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Prohibited participation by households which included an
able-bodied adult person between the ages of 18 and 65
(except mothers or other members of the household who
have the responsibility of care of dependent children or
of incapacitated adults, bona fide students in any
accredited school or training program, or persons
employed and working at least 30 hours per week) who
either (a) fails to register for employment at a State
or Federal employment office, or (b) has refused to
accept employment or public work at not less than (i)
the applicable State minimum wage, (ii) the applicable
Federal minimum wage, (iii) the applicable wage
established by a valid regulation of the Federal
Government authorized by existing law to establish such
regulations, or (iv) $1.30 per hour if there is no
applicable wage as described in (i), (ii), or (iii)
above. Refusal to work at a plant or site subject to a
strike or a lockout not to be deemed to be a refusal to
accept employment. |
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Face value of coupon allotment issued to certified
households to be in such amount as the Secretary
determines to be the cost of a nutritionally adequate
diet, adjusted annually to reflect changes in the prices
of food published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics in
the DOL. |
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Provided that charge for coupon allotment shall be no
more than 30% of the household's income. |
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Provided that coupon allotments may be issued without
charge to households with income of less than $30 per
month for a family of four. |
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Provided that the Secretary shall provide a reasonable
opportunity for any eligible household to elect to be
issued a coupon allotment having a face value which is
less than the face value of the coupon allotment
authorized to be issued to them. Charge for such
allotment to be prorated based on amount received as
compared to full amount which would have been received. |
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PA applicants for FSP benefits to be certified for
eligibility solely by execution of an affidavit by the
member of such household making application. |
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Certification of a household as eligible in any
political subdivision shall, in the event of removal of
such household to another political subdivision in which
the FSP is operating, remain valid for participation in
the FSP for a period of 60 days from the date of such
removal. |
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Added requirement that State agencies undertake
effective action, including the use of services provided
by other federally funded agencies and organizations, to
inform low-income households concerning the availability
and benefits of the FSP and insure participation of
eligible households. |
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Provided for the granting of a fair hearing and a prompt
determination thereafter to any household aggrieved by
the action of a State agency. |
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Entitled any household participating in the FSP, if it
elected to do so, to have the charges, if any, for its
coupon allotment deducted from any grant or payment such
household was entitled to receive under any federally
aided PA program and have its coupon allotment
distributed to it with such grant or payment. |
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Allowed members of an eligible household who are sixty
years of age or over or an elderly person and his spouse
to use coupons to purchase meals prepared for and
delivered to them by a public or by a private nonprofit
organization which: (1) is not receiving federally
donated foods from the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture for use
in the preparation of such meals; (2) is operated in a
manner consistent with the purposes of the FSP; and (3)
is recognized as a tax exempt organization by the IRS.
Household members or elderly persons to whom meals are
delivered are unable to adequately prepare all of their
meals. |
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Added altering of coupons or authorization to purchase
cards to list of offenses punishable under the FSA.
Added unauthorized transfer, acquisition, alteration or
possession of authorization to purchase cards as
punishable offenses under the FSP (1964 act had only
provided punishment for offenses involving coupons). |
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PA recipients filing affidavit for FSP certification
shall not be charged with a violation of the FSA or any
other Act, or regulation, or of any State plan of
operation based on any statements or information
contained in the affidavit, except for fraud. |
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Authorized the Secretary to pay to each State agency an
amount equal to 62 1/2% of the sum of (1) the salary
travel, and travel-related cost of personnel for such
time as they are employed in outreach activities and in
making certification determinations for NA households;
(2) the direct salary, travel, and travel-related costs
of fair hearing officials. |
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Authorized $1.75 billion for FY 1971, and "such sums as
Congress may appropriate" for FYs 1972 and 1973. |
