Declares that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall forthwith provide full and complete information to State governments on regulations implementing the supplemental security income program, such regulations to carry out the intent of Congress that present and additional persons receiving benefits under adult categories of public assistance programs shall be better enabled to provide for their self-sufficiency and to meet the rising cost of living; and that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall expedite the determination of State supplemental payment levels; and urges States legislatures to enact appropriate enabling legislation to assure that the intent of Congress with respect to the enactment of the supplemental security income program is carried out by January 1, 1974, when this program becomes effective.

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Declares that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall forthwith provide full and complete information to State governments on regulations implementing the supplemental security income program, such regulations to carry out the intent of Congress that present and additional persons receiving benefits under adult categories of public assistance programs shall be better enabled to provide for their self-sufficiency and to meet the rising cost of living; and that the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare shall expedite the determination of State supplemental payment levels; and urges States legislatures to enact appropriate enabling legislation to assure that the intent of Congress with respect to the enactment of the supplemental security income program is carried out by January 1, 1974, when this program becomes effective.

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