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ards relating to eligibility duration
and amount of benefit should be
developed
c. Old-age and survivors msur~
anCe
The old-age and survivors inSur-
ance system should be strengthened
and made more widely available py
the following changes:
"a Coverage should be extended
10 employees of non profit corpora
tons. Additional groups of employees
should be covered as rapidly as it
can be demonstrated that tley VIII
receive adequate or significant bene-
fits from the system.
tbl Continuing study should be
given to the feasibility OF revising
the benefit formulas and the mini
mum earnings eligibility require
ment, with view to making it pos
sible for the vast majority of COW
cred workers to qualify for benefits
and to enable the system to offer
significant monthly benefits to q
larger proportion of the loW-paid
and irregularly employed workers.
Periods Of involuntary unemploy-
ment, sickness and military service
should not impair eligibility for and
amount Of benefits.
'cl The general principle Of q
governmental contribution 10 the
costs Of the program should be spe-
officially embodied in legislation.
5. General Public Assistance.
A. In addition to adequate work
and social insurance programs,
there should be a comprehensive
general public assistance program.
B. There should be a Federal
grant-in-aid for general public as
siStance, which should be available
on basis rejecting differences IN
need and economic and fiscal ca
pacity as between the States. The
States should be required TO dis
tribute Federal and State monies
within their political subdivisions on
q similar variable basis The costs
Of public assistance granted to per-
sons with less than one years resi-
dence in State should be a wholly
Federal charge.
c. The system should be admin
lStered through single State
agency responsible for the admin
ltratlon OF supervision Of the plan.
The Federal administrative agency
should be the Social Security Board.
Where a State refuses to comply
with the Federal requirements IN
accordance with the Federal law
or retrainS from participation i'll
the program, the Federal Govern
ment should have the power 10
operate the program within that
State with Federal personnel until
the State demonstrates its ability
and Willingness TO reasSume its re-
SponslbllltleS, provided
"a That a public hearing should
be called at which the Federal Gov
ernment should show why this step
is believed to be necessary and at
which the State government should
have an opportunity to answer the
allega lions; and
tB) That the hearing should take
place within the State concerned.
d. In addition to The provisions
laid down for the special types of
public assistance in the Social Sc
cUIity Act relating to availability of
AID, throughout the State, selection
Of staff on a merit basis, the aSSur-
anCe Of appeal rights and the rem
dering Of reports to the Social Sc
cuIity Board, the States plans for
general public assistance should
provide.
- That public assistance may
not be denied any person by reason
Of race, sex, marital or employment
sta Us, OF failure to have resided
within the State for more than one
year
B That public assistance should
be administered in accordance with
general standards adopted under
rules and regulations of the Social