WK 6 (CH. 10) Policy Jeopardy

Question 1

Medicaid

Answer 1

State-federal program providing medical insurance to low- income people

Question 2

One a policy has been selected, a policy analysis starts with this first step

Answer 2

Determining the kind of benefits offered by the policy (nature, size, frequency, cash, in-kind, etc.)

Question 3

Social Security Act (SSA) (1935)

Answer 3

Foundation of U.S. federal income support for the poor

Question 4

Medicare

Answer 4

Federal health insurance program for elderly and disabled people

• Established under the Social Security Act

Question 5

Patient Protect & Affordable Care Act

Answer 5

Enables young adults to stay on their parents health insurance until age 26

Question 6

Characteristic of social policy

Answer 6

• Policy is the formal expression of communities values, principles, beliefs, that become reality through program and its resulting services
• Policy provides legitimacy & sanctions an organization to provide a particular program
• Policy offers a roadmap for organizations
• Policy creates a broad structural framework that guides the practitioner in his her professional role

Question 7

Difference: In-kind & Cash benefit programs

Answer 7

In-kind: benefits are limited in scope and provide a defined benefit or service (not cash)
EX: public housing, SNAP, WIC

Question 8

Unintended Consequence

Answer 8

Result of a policy that is not directly related to its planned outcome

Question 9

Residual VS. Institutional perspectives/ frameworks

Both: public assistance programs

Answer 9

Residual: Social welfare (means-tested)
EX: Safety net (leftover. WIC, TANF)

Institutional: Social Insurance - part of society
EX: unemployment/ public education

Question 10

3 levels of governement

Answer 10

Local
State
Federal

Question 11

3 branches of government

Answer 11

Executve
Judicial
Legislative

Question 12

WIC

Answer 12

provides vouchers to low income families with children up until age 5

Question 13

TANF

Answer 13

means-tested program that ties the receipt of the cash benefit to work and recipients are restricted to 5 yr lifetime limit

Question 14

Earned Income Tax Credit

Answer 14

program provides a tax refund to supplement the earnings of the working poor

Question 15

Regressive tax

Answer 15

tax is one that imposes a harsher burden on lower-income households than on higher-income households.

EX: state lotteries

Question 16

Elizabethan Poor Laws

Answer 16

Impact current ideas about how and who we help in the U.S.

Question 17

of years you must work to qualify for social security

Answer 17

10

Question 18

Difference: SSDI & SSI

Answer 18

Qualifying work history!

SSDI- Social Security Disability Insurance- requires a disability and work history

SSI- Supplemental Security Income - available to low-income individuals with a disability

Question 19

Difference: Horizontal & Vertical Adequacy in policies

Answer 19

Horizontal: provides a wide range of coverage to all people eligible
EX: Social security

Vertical: How well the service meets the needs of recipients