community work and training programs

community work and training programs Sec. 105. (a) Title IV of the Social Security Act is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: “community work and training programs “Sec. 409. (a) For the purpose of assisting the States in encouraging, through community work and training programs of a constructive nature, the conservation of work skills and the development of new skills Tor individuals who have attained the age of 18 and are receiving aid to families with dependent children, under conditions which are designed to assure protection of the health and welfare of such individuals and the dependent children involved, expenditures (other than for medical or any other type of remedial care) for any month with respect to a dependent child (including payments to meet the needs of any relative or relatives, specified in section 406(a), with whom he is living) under a State plan approved under section 402 shall not be excluded from aid to families with dependent children because such expenditures are made in the form of payments for work performed in such month by any one or more of the relatives with whom such child is living if such work is performed for the State agency or any other public agency under a program (which need not be in effect in all political subdivisions of the State) administered by or under the supervision of such State agency, if there is State financial participation in such expenditures, and if such State plan includes— “(1) provisions which, in the judgment of the Secretary, provide reasonable assurance that— “(A) appropriate standards for health, safety, and other conditions applicable to the performance of such work by such relatives are established and maintained; “(B) payments for such work are at rates not less than the minimum rate (if any) provided by or under State law for the same type or work and not less than the rates prevailing on similar work in the community; “(C) such work is performed on projects which serve a useful public purpose, do not result either in displacement76 Stat. 187 of regular workers or in the performance by such relatives of work that would otherwise be performed by employees of public or private agencies, institutions, or organizations, and (except in cases of projects which involve emergencies or which are generally of a nonrecurring nature) are of a type which has not normally been undertaken in the past by the State or community, as the case may be; “(D) in determining the needs of any such relative, any additional expenses reasonably attributable to such work will be considered; “(E) any such relative shall have reasonable opportunities to seek regular employment and to secure any appropriate training or retraining which may be available; “(F) any such relative will, with resjiect to the work so performed, be covered under the State workmen’s compensation law or be provided comparable protection; and “(G) aid under the plan will not be denied with respect to any such relative (or the dependent child) for refusal by such relative to perform any such work if he has good cause for such refusal; “(2) provision for entering into cooperative arrangements with the system of public employment offices in the State looking toward employment or occupational training of any such relatives performing work under such program, including appropriate provision for registration and periodic reregistration of such relatives and for maximum utilization of the job placement services and other services and facilities of such offices; “(3) provision for entering into cooperative arrangements with the State agency or agencies responsible for administering or supervising the administration of vocational education and adult education in the State, looking toward maximum utilization of available public vocational or adult education services and facilities in the State in order to encourage the training or retraining of any such relatives performing work under such program and otherwise assist them in preparing for regular employment; “(4) provision for assuring appropriate arrangements for the care and protection of the child during the absence from the home of any such relative performing work under such program in order to assure that such absence and work will not be inimical to the welfare of the child; “(5) provision that there will be no adjustment or recovery by the State or any political subdivision thereof on account of any payments which are correctly made for such work; and “(6) such other provisions as the Secretary finds necessary to assure that the operation of such program will not interfere with achievement of the objectives set forth in section 401. “(b) In the case of any State which makes expenditures in the form described in subsection (a) under its State plan approved under section 402, the proper and efficient administration of the State plan, for purposes of section 403(a)(3), may not include the cost of maxing or acquiring materials or equipment in connection with the work performed under a program referred to in subsection (a) or the cost of supervision of work under such program, and may include only such other costs attributable to such programs as are permitted by the Secretary.” (b) The Secretary shall submit to the President, for transmission to the Congress prior to January 1, 1967, a full report of the administration of the provisions of the amendment made by subsection (a), including the experiences of each of the States in paying for work76 Stat. 188 under community work and training programs under the provisions of their respective State plans which are in accord with such amendment, together with his recommendations as to continuation of and modifications in such amendment. (c) Expenditures (other than for medical or any other type of remedial care) made at any time during the period beginning July 1, 1961, and ending with the close of September 30, 1962, which would have been considered aid to dependent children or aid to families with dependent children, as the case may be, under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act except that they were made in the form of payments for work performed by a relative with whom a dependent child (as defined in section 406 or 407 of such Act) is living, shall be deemed to have been made under a State plan approved under title IV of the Social Security Act and to constitute aid to dependent children or aid to families with dependent children, as the case may be, if (1) such expenditures were made under conditions which meet the requirements set forth in section 409 of such Act (added by subsection (a) of this section), other than subparagraphs (D) and (F) of subsection (a)(1) thereof and other than the requirement that the State agency (administering or supervising the administration of such plan) be administering or supervising the administration of the program under which such work is performed, and (2) at the time such expenditures were made, such State plan met the requirements of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 407 of the Social Security Act. The costs of administration of any such State plan may include, with respect to expenditures described in the preceding sentence, only such costs as are permitted in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of such section 409.