Welfare To Work Employers welfare to Work @ SBA www.sba.gov/welfare. Department of Health HumanServices welfare reform www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare. State. http://www.wtwemployers.cahwnet.gov/wtwemrs.htm
Extractions: Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Adult Career and Vocational Education Columbus OH. Interagency Collaboration: Its Role in Welfare Reform. ERIC Digest No. 126. THIS DIGEST WAS CREATED BY ERIC, THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER. FOR MORE INFORMATION ABOUT ERIC, CONTACT ACCESS ERIC 1-800-LET-ERIC The FSA affords professionals chances to forge critical interagency connections and expand the range and capacity of programs for learners at risk. If adult and vocational educators, human service and employment and training personnel, and other professionals are to take advantage of these opportunities, they must begin forming linkages with each other in their local areas. This ERIC DIGEST describes a strategy for forming effective linkages across agencies, particularly at the local level. FOR THE COMMON GOOD: DEVELOPING INTERAGENCY LINKAGE TEAMS Developing or strengthening interagency linkages is a systematic process consisting of a series of steps. Like most planning activities, it may not be feasible or desirable to follow the steps in a linear fashion but each step needs to be considered in the process of interagency linkage development.
Federal Welfare Reform (H.R. 3734): Fiscal Effect On California Although previous versions of welfare reform legislation repealed the for the developmentof its Child welfare Services Case Web page at http//www.lao.ca.gov. http://www.lao.ca.gov/fed_welfare_reform_pb082096.html
Extractions: Fiscal Effect on California Federal Welfare Reform In August 1996 the Congress passed, and President Clinton has indicated he will sign, H.R. 3734The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. This measure repeals and amends several major public assistance programs and replaces certain of these programs with block grants. Impact on California In this policy brief, we summarize the key features of H.R. 3734 and its potential fiscal effects on federal funds to California. We estimate that the act would likely result in a net reduction of $6.8 billion in federal funds to California over the first six years of implementation. About two-thirds of this loss in federal funds is due to eliminating federal aid to certain noncitizens legally residing in the state. At the same time, we estimate that the state will receive additional federal funds under the new Block Grants for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (formerly the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program). The fiscal estimates that we present in this policy brief represent our best initial projection of how H.R. 3734 will impact federal funds to the state. They are not predictions of future policy decisions by the Legislature and administration in implementing this measure in California. Our estimates, especially those for 1996-97, are sensitive to assumptions concerning implementation dates, the state's caseload growth as affected by economic and demographic trends, and the extent to which noncitizens become citizens. In addition, the act contains a number of penalties for state failure to comply with federal requirements, the imposition of which could further reduce the amount of federal funds to the state.
Extractions: NATIONAL COUNCIL ON DISABILITY Impact of the Welfare Reform Legislation on Legal Immigrants with Disabilities June 23, 1997 It is the statutory mandate of the National Council on Disability to advise the Congress and the President when the laws and policies of the United States adversely affect the well-being and progress of individuals with disabilities. The National Council on Disability therefore must convey its serious concern, and that of the members of this community, at the economic, physical and emotional injury that the 1996 welfare reform legislation will inflict, in fact has already inflicted, on certain members of the community, legal immigrants with disabilities. The welfare law's toll on the community of persons with disabilities has already been enormous. Letters mailed earlier this year by the Social Security Administration ("SSA"), warning legal immigrants of the U.S. Government's plans to terminate their benefits this summer, created such dismay and panic in the community that disability advocates fear a rash of suicides as the deadline for termination of benefits approaches. The bipartisan budget accord reached last May purported to restore certain benefits to legal immigrants who arrived in the country before August 23, 1996. However, the budget accord did not go far enough in restoring benefits desperately needed by individuals with disabilities. Moreover, recent Congressional proposals to implement the budget accord have stripped certain of the benefits that were restored to individuals with disabilities by the budget accord, despite new official estimates that sufficient funding could be made available within the budgetary limits established by the accord to restore all such benefits to persons with disabilities and to restore benefits to aging legal immigrants as well.
Research And Resources - Program Administration their efforts and pursuing a mutual vision of welfare reform Changing welfare officesto job centers; Maintaining the view http//www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/ofa http://www.calib.com/peerta/policies/program.htm
Extractions: This report details the September 2002 Conference on ACF's Positive Youth Development initiative and provides information on how to effectively incorporate the initiative into a cross section of ACF supported programs such as TANF, Child Support, Head Start, Child Care, Child Welfare, Independent Living, and Runaway and Homeless Youth. The Local Path To Making Work Pay: Denver's Earned Income Credit Experience , March 2002 This report is the first in a series of web essays about local innovations in welfare and work.This essay describes the reasons for Denver's decision to use welfare block grant funds to create a local earned income tax credit for th city's low-income workers. It describes the: 1) reasons for Denver Mayor Webb's decision to create a local Earned Income Tax Credit; 2) specific steps the city took to create the working family credit; 3) lessons learned during the development of the new policy; and 4) implications of this experience for welfare reform reauthorization. It concludes that local leaders can creatively use flexible federal welfare funds to provide accessible support that alleviates poverty and rewards work. The author recommends that federal welfare reform reauthorization maintain flexibility and include adequate funds by adjusting block grants for inflation.
Welfare Reform: The Failed Anti-Poverty Prescription welfare reform has been to keep caseloads down, instead of helping families breakthe cycle of poverty. Practices by state and county welfare agencies, private http://www.foodfirst.org/progs/humanrts/welfarefactsheet2002.html
Extractions: What is Welfare Reform? In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, commonly known as welfare reform. This law slashed the 60-year-old vital safety net for millions of poor and working families. The new system has altered the administration of welfare in many ways: It ended the human right to a base minimum needed for survival. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) replaced Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC). Cash assistance to poor people with poverty-level income is no longer an entitlement; they are now benefits with a work requirement and a five-year time limit. The federal government devolved the responsibility to administer welfare, such as determining welfare benefits or job training, to state and local governments, charities, and private companies (i.e. Lockheed Martin). The federal government gives states money for welfare through fixed block grants, which binds states from obtaining more federal funding if caseloads increase. It limited legal immigrants access to TANF, food stamps
[Hpn] 2000-06-01 Statement By The President On Welfare Reform 6/1/7.text.1 PublicDistribution@pub.pub.whitehouse.gov THE WHITE builds on my Administration'slong-standing commitment to reform welfare, reward work http://projects.is.asu.edu/pipermail/hpn/2000-June/000835.html
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National Low Income Housing Coalition: 2002 Advocates' Guide housing programs, especially in the wake of welfare reform. available online at pic.hud.gov/pic.RCRPublic Housingagencies stand to benefit from partnering with http://www.nlihc.org/advocates/welfare.htm
Extractions: Home Search 2002 Advocates' Guide To Housing and Community Development Policy Although welfare and housing assistance systems are designed and administered separately, their beneficiaries overlap to a substantial degree. This intersection presents opportunities and challenges for welfare recipients, housing and welfare advocates, and administrators of both welfare and housing programs. It also presents potential risks for housing programs, especially in the wake of welfare reform. As of May 2001, about 633,000 HUD-assisted families with children received some income from the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program. Of these families, about 190,000 lived in public housing, 340,000 received Section 8 vouchers, and 103,000 lived in project-based Section 8 housing. Nationally, about 30% of families who receive monthly TANF cash benefits also receive federal housing assistance, since 1996. State-level data on the number of HUD-assisted families with TANF income, compiled from reports submitted by housing authorities and owners to HUD, are available online at pic.hud.gov/pic.RCRPublic/rcrmain.asp. Housing agencies stand to benefit from partnering with welfare agencies to promote work. Programs to promote tenant employment and increase earnings may stabilize housing developments and reduce maintenance needs and crime. Housing agency efforts to support work also may garner public support for additional appropriations. However, if tenant incomes fall as families hit TANF time limits, housing agencies may be faced with loss of revenue. In addition, if families cannot replace lost welfare income with earnings and are left destitute, housing agency costs for maintenance and security may increase. Each of the three major federal housing programs will be affected when tenants incomes increase or decrease as a result of welfare reform.
GOP.com - Republican National Committee the flexibility to streamline and coordinate these support programs, which now operateunder different agencies, different rules Background on welfare reform http://www.rnc.org/issues/issues-welfare.htm
Welfare-to-Work Grants Program, The Provides a subject index to reports on welfare reform that have come to the attention of the Wisconsin Dept. of Workforce Development. http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf26.html
Extractions: Number A-26 in Series, "New Federalism: Issues and Options for States" The nonpartisan Urban Institute publishes studies, reports, and books on timely topics worthy of public consideration. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the Urban Institute, its trustees, or its funders. he $3 billion Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Grants program authorized under the Balanced Budget Act of 1997 is the latest component of federal welfare reform and represents the only federal funds specifically designated for work-related activities for welfare recipients. This brief describes main features of the WtW Grants program including goals of the initiative, types of grants available, allowable activities, and target populations and discusses key challenges to implementing the WtW programs. Through the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996, Congress eliminated the 60-year-old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program and replaced it with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Unlike AFDC, under which all eligible families were entitled to receive benefits as long as their incomes were below a state-specified level, TANF is time-limitedbenefits are limited to a total of five years in a lifetime. PRWORA also eliminated the Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program, which provided employment and training services to AFDC recipients and required some recipients, mainly those with children over three years old, to participate in work or training activities. Under TANF, all recipients are required at some point (i. e., within two years or, at state option, earlier) to engage in work or work-related activities that will quickly lead to a job.
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Census Bureau News 4571037 (TDD) e-mail pio@census.gov Art Jones to assess the impact of the 1996 WelfareReform Act Federal agencies, researchers and others are expected to use http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/2001/cb01-154.html
Extractions: EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:01 A.M. EDT, SEPTEMBER 21, 2001 (FRIDAY) Public Information Office CB01-154 301-457-3030/301-457-3670 (fax) 301-457-1037 (TDD) e-mail: pio@census.gov Art Jones 301-457-3185 Census Bureau Releases Data Files from Survey Evaluating Welfare Reform The Commerce Department's Census Bureau today released data files from the Survey of Program Dynamics (SPD), a survey mandated by federal law to assess the impact of the 1996 Welfare Reform Act. Federal agencies, researchers and others are expected to use the data to refine initial assessments. "The data files released today, 1992-1998 Survey of Program Dynamics Longitudinal File Preparing to Measure Welfare Reform using the Longitudinal Survey of Program Dynamics: 2001 [pdf], which provides a first look at the kind of data available from the survey. Because of sample attrition, the SPD data in any one year should not be considered a nationally representative survey of the population and may not be comparable with other data sources. The value of these data are in the picture they give of changes over time. -X-
