Here is a look at some of the impacts of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act in Iowa:
FMAP (Medicaid percentage increase) FY2009-11 — $550.0 million
State Fiscal Stabilization (Flexible block grant) — $ 86.0 million
Education/ Child Care:
State Fiscal Stabilization fund (education) FY2009-10 — $386.4 million
Title 1 (supplemental support) — $65.3 million
IDEA (special education state grants)—$120.9 million
Child Care & Development Block Grant FY2009-10 — $18.1 million
Child Support FY2009-10 — $27.2 million
Unemployment Insurance (UI):
UI Benefit Increase ($25/week) — 212,422 recipients
UI Emergency Extension to 12/09 — 27,600 new beneficiaries
Employment Services FY09:
Youth Services — $5.2 million
Dislocated Workers — $6.3 million
Adult Activities — $1.6 million
Making Work Pay Credit — 1,110,000 taxpayers
Food Stamps FY2009-13:
Benefit Increase — $161 million and 279,000 recipients
Administration — $2.7 million
Child Tax Credit (tax year 2009 — lowers threshold to make credit available to families at $3,000 earnings):
Number helped lowering $8,500 threshold — 133,000
Number helped lowering $12,550 threshold — 156,000
Emergency Shelter Grant Pgm FY091 Add’l Funds — $16.8 million and 4,500 households
