Welfare Simplification: Service Integration Demonstrations Under the 1984 Deficit Reduction Act

In response to a congressional request, GAO provided information on the Department of Health and Human Services' (HHS) funding and monitoring of integration demonstration projects in five states. The demonstration projects will develop ways to ensure that an applicant for services under one program has access to available services under other programs by eliminating programmatic fragmentation. GAO reported specifically on: (1) funding arrangements for the projects; (2) whether certain requirements HHS placed on the states exceeded statutory mandates; and (3) possible federal obstructions to the development of integrated service projects.