Table SA35
Transfer Payments by type of Payment footnotes

 1/  Consists largely of temporary disability payments and black lung
     payments.

 2/  Consists of medicaid and other medical vendor payments.

 3/  Consists of aid to families with dependent children and, beginning with
     1996, assistance programs operating under the Personal Responsibility
     and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.

 4/  Consists largely of general assistance, emergency assistance, refugee
     assistance, foster home care payments, earned income tax credits, and
     energy assistance.

 5/  Consists of trade readjustment allowance payments, Redwood Park benefit
     payments, public service employment benefit payments, and transitional
     benefit payments.

 6/  Consists largely of veterans' readjustment benefit payments and
     educational assistance to spouses and children of disabled or deceased
     veterans.

 7/  Consists largely of payments to paraplegics, payments for autos and
     conveyances for disabled veterans, veterans' aid and veterans' bonuses.

 8/  Consists largely of federal fellowship payments (National Science
     Foundation, fellowships and traineeships, subsistence payments to
     State maritime academy cadets, and other federal fellowships),
     interest subsidy on higher education loans, basic educational
     opportunity grants, and Job Corps payments.

 9/  Consists largely of Bureau of Indian Affairs payments, education
     exchange payments, Alaska Permanent Fund dividend payments, compensation
     of survivors of public safety officers, compensation of victims of
     crime, disaster relief payments, compensation for Japanese internment,
     and other special payments to individuals.

 10/ Consists of State and local government payments for foster home care
     supervised by private agencies, State and local government educational
     assistance payments to nonprofit institutions, and other State and local
     government payments to nonprofit institutions.

 11/ Consists largely of personal injury payments to individuals other than
     employees and other business transfer payments.

 (L) Less than $50,000, but the estimates for this item are included in the 
     total.

 (N) Data not available for this year.

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 Table SA35         September 1998       Bureau of Economic Analysis