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GLOSSARY
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Administration for Children and Families: A federal agency funding state, territory, local, and tribal organizations to provide family assistance (welfare), child support, child care, Head Start, child welfare, and other programs relating to children and families.
AFDC (Aid to Families with Dependent Children): A grant program which enabled states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who have been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was absent from the home, incapacitated, deceased, or unemployed. Replaced in 1996 by TANF.
Alimony: An allowance made to one spouse by the other for support pending or after legal separation or divorce.
Beneficiary: A person who benefits from a program such as Medicaid or from life insurance and other insurance programs.
Benefit Package: Services an insurer, government agency, or health plan offers to a group or individual under the terms of a contract.
CCDF (Child Care and Development Fund): Federal program to help make it possible for parents to achieve economic self-sufficiency by helping them with quality early-child care and after-school programs.
Chain Letters: A letter sent to several persons with a request that each send copies of the letter and possibly money to an equal number of persons.
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