Search

Defined contribution plan account holders should have to obtain written spousal consent to take payment from the account in a form other than a joint-and-survivor annuity.

Public-benefit programs should ensure that families headed by grandparents and other caregiver relatives receive sufficient support for economic security and well-being. 

Policies and regulations should prioritize placing children in foster care with grandparents and other caregiver relatives whenever possible and appropriate. 

Policymakers should not increase the age of eligibility for SSI. 

Policymakers should support efforts to improve the quality of foods purchased and consumed by SNAP recipients, such as through nutrition education and healthy food incentives. 

Policymakers should not expand work requirements for SNAP recipients.

States should make it as simple as possible for grandparents and other caregiver relatives to enroll children in their care in school or obtain medical treatment for them. 

States should distribute public revenue only to social service agencies that are formally accountable to taxpayers. This should be demonstrated by performance-based measures. 

Congress should mandate the use of the Supplemental Poverty Meas

Policymakers should increase food benefits and expand eligibility for food programs.