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Five years of shrinking welfare rolls in New York and steady welfare allocations from Washington have meant a windfall for New York state and city budgets that totaled $6.7 billion statewide.
The problem is, just months before Congress is set to debate the next round of state-by-state welfare allocations, more than half of the $1.19 billion that has been accumulating in Albany and was earmarked by the state for specific anti-poverty programs has not left the bank.
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As a share of its total federal welfare allocation, New York's unspent dollars rank roughly in the middle of all 50 states.
A third of local authorities spent less than 40% of their local welfare allocation in 2013-14 on direct financial assistance to vulnerable people, the study found.
The study is based on financial returns from 127 local authorities in England, equivalent to 85% of those councils who received a local welfare allocation.
Another council, Middlesbrough, used over half its local welfare allocation – nearly £400,000 – to subsidise council tax payments for low income families whose council tax benefit had been abolished under government reforms.
Or the urban poor should be allowed to adjust their "personal responsibility" assistance formula, not in order to be eligible for a 600 thousand dollar subsidy (possible for a farm couple), but at least a bit above the current six thousand dollar a year welfare allocation for a family of four.
Welfare reform, allocations reform, antisocial behaviour reform: individually each represent a major challenge to the UK's social housing providers.
Spokes, A. C., Howard, R., Mehr, S. A. & Krasnow, M. M. Like Adults, children make consistent welfare tradeoff allocations.
Spokes, A. C., Howard, R., Mehr, S. A. & Krasnow, M. M. Like adults, children make consistent welfare tradeoff allocations.
A. C. Spokes, Howard, R., Mehr, S. A., and Krasnow, M. M., "Like adults, children make consistent welfare tradeoff allocations", Society for Research in Child Development Biennial Meeting.
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