State THE AGING POPULATION: STATE TRENDS, 1961 AND PROJECTIONS FOR 1970'-Continued South Carolina South Dakota Tennessee Texas Utah Vermont Virginia Washington West Virginia Wisconsin Wyoming Table 7 1 Data for 1961, U.S. Bureau of the Census, "Current Population Reports," Series P-25. Projections for 1970, adapted from "Financing Education in the 1960's," Special Project on School Finance, Research Division, National Education Association, are based on certain assumptions as to national level of death rates and immigration, relation of State birth and death rates and percentage age distribution to national levels, and continuation of previous fertility and net migration levels. * Computed on the basis of the rounded projections. State OLD-AGE ASSISTANCE, 1962 [Preliminary data: Includes vendor payments for medical care and cases receiving only such payments] Table 3 Source: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Welfare Administration, Bureau of Family Services, April 1963. 27, 649, 848 49, 710 46 15 173, 939, 527 223, 092 69.28 5,827, 342 5, 731 64, 57 5,023, 916 5, 525 80.80 225, 974 519 36. 22 9, 406, 992 13, 993 55.60 49, 201, 682 43, 849 86.67 MEDICAL ASSISTANCE FOR THE AGED (MAA), CALENDAR YEAR 1962 [Preliminary data) Table 4 Of the estimated $245.9 million spent in 1962 for the medical care of MAA recipients, $216.3 million, or 88 percent, were spent in 5 States: New York, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania. For the remaining 23 jurisdictions, the estimated annual expenditure was only $29.6 million, or 12 percent of the national total. Recipients, like payments, were rather heavily concentrated in New York, California, Massachusetts, Michigan, and Pennsylvania; 72,800, or 73 percent, of the average monthly number of recipients were in these 5 States. The average monthly number of recipients for the other 23 jursidictions was 27,500, or 27 percent of the national total. 1 States making payments less than 12 months in 1962 were Alabama and Pennsylvania, 11 months; Connecticut, 8 months; Guam, 7 months; and Vermont, 3 months. 40, 546 37 30, 368 204 7, 243 40 Less than 0.05 percent. Source: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Welfare Administration, Bureau of Family Services, April 1963. |