Census Data used for Budgeting and Appropriations

By House Appropriations Committee Staff , | 3 years ago

The Census is distributed to all households in the United States every ten years. Census data helps determine how $675 billion is spent by the federal government and how many representatives Pennsylvania has in Congress. It is estimated that for every person who is not counted, the community loses $2,000 per year.

Funding for the following programs and services in Pennsylvania are directly impacted by Census data.

DCED

• Federal- Community Service Block Grant
• Federal- State Community Block Grant 

DOS

• Federal – Election Reform

Housing 

 HUD funding 

• Section 8 Housing Choice Vouchers 
• Public Housing Capital Fund 
• Community Development Block Grants

Police

• Proposed municipality fees

Revenue and Taxes

• Useful in an array of revenue forecasting situations

• Economic census used to estimate sales tax exemptions
• Estimates of tax policy changes
• Property tax relief calculations and property tax forecast estimates

L&I

• Some WIOA allocations to states use both ACS and Census estimates in their formulas
• Vocational rehabilitation funds are allocated to states in part based on population

Transportation

• Federal highway planning and construction
• Federal transit – capital investment grants

Environment

• Federal clean diesel grants
• Healthy communities grants
• Federal public water system supervision

Education

• Special education funding
• Career and technical education grants
• Vocational rehabilitation grants
• School safety national activities
• National school lunch program
• Title 1 grants
• State basic education grants

Human Services

Funding to/through PA:

• Medical Assistance (MA)
  • • poverty thresholds impact eligibility
    • per capita income impacts Federal Medical Assistance Percentage (FMAP) calculation
• Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)
  • • poverty thresholds impact eligibility
    • per capita income impacts FMAP calculation
    • population used to calculate state allocations
  • Supplemental Nutrition Programs for Women, Infant, and Children (WIC)
    • Poverty thresholds impact eligibility
    • Consumer price index for annual inflation adjustment for monthly fruit and vegetable vouchers
    • Population used to calculate state allocations
  • Child Welfare Services - Foster Care and Adoption Assistance (Title IV-E)
    • Per capita income impacts FMAP calculation
  • Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP)
    • Fuel use in low-income households
    • Poverty thresholds and state median income for eligibility
    • Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF)
    • Population for number of children under 13
    • State median income used in eligibility limits
    • Per capita income impacts FMAP calculation
  • Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
    • Poverty thresholds impact eligibility
  • Block Grants for Prevention and Treatment of Substance Abuse
    • Uses population and urban/rural classification in allocation formula
  • Social Services Block Grant
    • Uses population in allocation formula
  • Maternal and Child Health Services Block Grant
    • Uses population of low-income children in allocation formula
  • Developmental Disabilities Basic Support and Advocacy Grants
    • Allocation methodology uses number of disabled children, state per capita income and total population
  • Family Violence Prevention and Services
    • Uses population in allocation formula
  • Abstinence Education Program
    • Uses population in allocation formula
  • Special Programs for the Aging
    • Uses population in allocation formula

Funding to PA residents:

• Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
  • Poverty thresholds impact eligibility
  • Poverty guidelines used to determine household eligibility and benefit amounts
  • Local area unemployment used to waive work requirements for able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD)
• Medicare physician fee schedule
  • Geographic fee schedule indexes
• Health Care Centers
  • Used to Identify index of medical underservice
  • Used to identify medically underserved areas
  • Used to identify medically underserved populations