More recent analyses of hard data from the Colorado project. however. indicate that there were no statistically significant savings realized. This conclusion was also reached in an additional AFDC demonstration project in Michigan conducted October 1980 to September 1981. In the food stamp program. retrospective budgeting is required for all households with the sole exception of migrant farmworker households as long as these households are in the migrant job stream. Monthly reporting is required for households with earned income. those containing potential earners. those whose household head is receiving unemployment insurance. and those whose household head is required to register for work. Only migrant households and those whose adult members are without income and elderly or disabled are excluded from this requirement. Because this requirement affects so many households. the law provides waiver authority where a State agency can prove monthly reporting of certain households would result in unwarranted expenditures by the State agency. It is my understanding that at the end of October. the Department had received over 280 requests from the States for waivers in this regard.