Let me first introduce Roger Winter. on my left. our Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement. Mr. Chairman. members of the committee. I appreciate this opportunity to appear before you today in response to the mandate for congressional consultation in this Act. I am going to be very brief. I will just pick out highlights of this statement which in itself is quite brief. but I am going to give testimony today focusing on four major areas: Fiscal asperets of the refugee assistance program. including current availability of funds: the new 1981 budget request occasioned by enactment of the Refugee Act of 1980. the status of funding for social Services in the current fiscal year: and our estimates of costs for assisting the additional 3.500 Cuban refugees whom President Carter has authorized to enter the United States. Under our current continuing resolution. the refugee program is authorized to spend funds to aid Indochinere refugees based on 14.000 admissions monthly. We believe the 1980 budget has sufficient moneys to provide basic assistance to newly arrived Indochinese refugees. The only problem is social services. which I will allude to later. We also have before us a fiscal year 1980 supplemental request. primarily to address activities which are not covered by our current appropriations.
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