Welfare Reform

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to five years total, and let states establish family duration by denying additional benefits to mothers for children born while the mothers are already on public assistance.
Traditionally the federal government set eligibility guidelines on a national basis, then handed out money to the states to fund specific programs. But now, the federal money for public assistance is sent to the states in block grants. This causes the federal role to be limited to setting goals , financial penalties and rewards. Many of the new approaches now require a human being to decide when a individual recipient is ready for work and should be cut off from assistance. These welfare caseworker's responsibilities went from a simple task of handing out checks to those who fell under standard guidelines to actually deciding who will and will not receive benefits. As a result, assistance which used to be standard all over the United States now differs from state to state, county to ...

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