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 Social Security $773 Billion (2012)  53.6 Million recipients (Sept. 2012)  (Congressional Budget Office, Social Security Administration)  Supplemental.

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1  Social Security $773 Billion (2012)  53.6 Million recipients (Sept. 2012)  (Congressional Budget Office, Social Security Administration)  Supplemental Security Income (SSI)  $48 Billion (FY 2009)  5.4 Million recipients (Sept. 2012)  Basic monthly benefit $674 (individual)/$1011 (couple) (2010/2011)  (Social Security Administration, Center for Budget and Policy Priorities)  Head Start $7.9 Billion (2012)  Almost 1 Million kids served  (The New York Times)

2  Medicare: $549 Billion (FY 2011)  48.7 Million people covered  (medicare.gov)  Medicaid: $258 Billion (FY 2012)  Matched by state funds  (Congressional Budget Office)  School Lunch program $10.1 Billion (FY 2010)  33.8 Million recipients  (US Department of Agriculture)  TANF $17.8 Billion (FY 2011)  4.4 Million recipients  (hhs.gov)  SNAP (food assistance) $78 Billion (FY2011)  Average of 45 Million recipients per month  (Congressional Budget Office)

3  Housing assistance (Section 8)  $20 Billion (FY 2002)  2 million recipients (FY 2005)  (Hall and Ryan, Americans for Democratic Action)  WIC $7 Billion (FY 2012)  Average monthly participation 9M (FY 2011)  (US Department of Agriculture)

4  http://fcnl.org/pdfs/issues/budget/South_Carolina-_Field.pdf

5  Medicaid: Approx. $5 Billion (FY 2012)  DSS: Approx. $1.9 Billion (FY 2012)  Housing Authority: $126 Million (FY 2012)  Dept. of Education: $943 Million (FY 2012)  Note that this does not include local school funds.

6  Are programs effective? Do they succeed in helping people become self-sufficient?  Are programs cost-efficient?  Current controversy: Should drug testing be required for welfare recipients (laws in some states)  Consequences to society of fraud

7  Ensuring that no genuinely needy person is left out of the opportunity for services inevitably leads to fraud, which has serious consequences for society – both economic and non-economic.  Ensuring that no one defrauds the system inevitably leaves out genuinely needy people, which also has consequences for society.

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