Shriver Center - Sargent Shriver National Center on Poverty Law

Disaster Follows Disaster

This article describes the organization of federal disaster relief programs, how the Federal Emergency Management Agency responded to Hurricane Hugo and the Loma Prieta earthquake in fall 1989, and how legal services programs can prepare to assist clients in the event of a disaster.

By Sandra D. Jones

Medicaid and Managed Care: Testimony Submitted to the House Subcommittee on Health and the Environment

This article discusses capitation of health care costs as an incentive to control overutilization and the special problems for Medicaid recipients that result from this incentive mechanism.

By presented by Michele Melden

A Quick and Easy Method of Screening for Medicaid Eligibility Under the Pickle Amendment

This quick and simple screening method will eliminate the great majority of those who are not eligible without the necessity of performing any mathematical calculations.

SSA Releases Allowance Figures for Children's SSI Under Interim Standard for Determining Disability

Although implementation of Zebley v. Sullivan is beginning, the allowance rate for children's SSI in most states is still small.

Future Funding Goals for National Support Centers

This article summarizes issues considered by the Funding Criteria Committee and the Steering Committee of the Project Advisory Group in setting future funding goals.

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February 1991