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Moynihan Introduces Welfare Reform Legislation
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT Thursday, May 18, 1995 Kevin Sheekey(202) 2244451. MOYNIHAN INTRODUCES welfare reform legislation.
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House Republicans Unveil Welfare Reform Legislation
House Republicans Unveil welfare reform legislation. By ElizabethShogren Los Angeles Times WASHINGTON Launching what could become
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Extractions: Launching what could become the defining debate of the 104th Congress, House Republicans unveiled Thursday welfare reform legislation calling for more extensive reductions in cash assistance and a more circumscribed role for the federal government than plans favored by President Clinton and congressional Democrats. While the broad outlines of the GOP legislation have been apparent for some time, the final measure includes a few new elements that Democrats characterized as particularly harsh, such as a provision that would significantly decrease the number of disabled children eligible for cash assistance. The bill's introduction sets in motion a landmark struggle over the extent to which Congress should scale back the government-administered safety net that increasingly is perceived as contributing to the cycle of joblessness, poverty and despair it was designed to ameliorate. "The welfare state failed because for too many years Congress equated compassion with money," said Rep. Clay Shaw, R-Fla. chairman of a key House panel that could begin voting on the measure as early as next week. The GOP initiative would reduce federal funding of welfare programs by $40 billion over five years, with some $15 billion coming from the consolidation of about 50 programs into three block grants to be administered by the states. In what would represent a dramatic change in the way the government regards its obligation to poor families, the measure would end welfare's protected status as a federal "entitlement" that promises benefits to all who qualify, regardless of the cost to taxpayers.
July 9, 1996 Action Alert: Welfare Reform
The US Senate will soon be taking up welfare reform legislation again and thenew version is as bad as the one President Clinton vetoed in January.
http://www.now.org/issues/economic/welfref.html

Extractions: July 9th, 1996 Action Alert on Welfare Reform The U.S. Senate will soon be taking up welfare reform legislation again and the new version is as bad as the one President Clinton vetoed in January. The new version in the Senate ( S. 1795 ) eliminates Aid to Families with Children (AFDC) as an entitlement program. AFDC would become a block grant to the states, with proposed cuts in spending of $53 billion over a 7 year period. The legislation places a five year lifetime limitation on cash assistance and requires that everyone have a job within two years after applying for AFDC eligibility. States could choose to make these time limitations even shorter. The Senate Finance committee adopted a bill which raises the required 25 hour work week to 35 hours; creates a limited exemption for parents of children under 11 who can't find child care, and imposes a 'family cap' provision [meaning that families who have more children while on welfare would be denied additional assistance, although states could "opt out" of this provision]. In addition, states can stop payments to unmarried teens if they don't remain at home and in school (even though the home environment may not be a good one) and cash grants will be given to states which reduce out of wedlock births without increasing abortions, thus giving an incentive to make abortions difficult to obtain. Welfare benefits will be denied to parents who don't cooperate in child support collection, compelling mothers to identify the fathers of their children even if it will put them at risk of violence. And poor women (and children under 13) who lose cash aid would lose Medicaid assistance as well.
Welfare Reform Two Years Later: Which Way Is Up?
The welfare reform legislation did not contain funding for jobs to employ thepoorest of our nation's families; provisions for adequate levels of safe
http://www.now.org/nnt/fall-98/welfare.html

Extractions: A single parent who is also a college senior carrying a 17-hour class load applies for welfare in a small Midwestern college town. Although she is income-eligible, she knows she will be denied because to get assistance she would have to drop out of school in the final semester, make 10 job contacts a week and take a class on how to fill out applications and make it to work on time. This she refuses to do because she believes what the statistics show - that education is the best permanent path out of poverty. She fills out the 10 pages of forms as a required step to extend medical coverage for her small child (one of the principal reasons families seek welfare) and awaits her appointment. Another young woman enters the public assistance office, dripping from the pouring rain, holding a baby in one hand and a fistful of papers in the other. Despite her assertion that she does not know where to locate her child's father and that she has done all that she has been asked, she has been dropped from the welfare rolls for "noncompliance" with the state office in establishing paternity. She is sent back into the rain to another office to argue her case again. The New York Times reports that an epileptic mother of two in Idaho who lost her welfare benefits sometimes goes without food for days so her kids can eat. (Idaho's welfare caseload has dropped 76 percent in the past year, more than any other state.)
American Civil Liberties Union : Rights Of The Poor : Welfare Reform
system must have poverty reduction as its highest priority, the American Civil LibertiesUnion today warned Congress that welfare reform legislation set for
http://www.aclu.org/PoorRights/PoorRightslist.cfm?c=154
HOMELESS: Mar99 : Chartiable Choice & Welfare Reform Legislation
Chartiable Choice welfare reform legislation.
http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/homeless/mar99/0081.html
Sep96 Sorted : Welfare Reform
There was something of an error in our posting about NCH's analysisof the welfare reform legislation. It was not attached to the
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Policy Evaluation Of The Effects Of The 1996 Welfare Reform Legislation On SSI B
Policy Evaluation of the Effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislationon SSI Benefits for Disabled Children Jeannette Rogowski
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Extractions: Jeannette Rogowski This was a study to evaluate the effects of the 1996 welfare reform legislation on disabled children along several dimensions. The study will provide information on the effects to children who were on the rolls prior to the legislation's enactment; changes in the number of eligible children; changes in total benefit years and program costs; and the characteristics of children affected by the law, including changes on family income and living arrangements. (Completed February 2002) Publications
Florida Welfare Reform Legislation-flwelfar.html
Florida welfare reform legislation. Senate Bill 1662 Welfare Reform. Substantialchanges in the delivery and focus of Florida's welfare assistance programs.
http://www.flstw.fsu.edu/flwelfar.html

Extractions: Welfare Reform Substantial changes in the delivery and focus of Florida's welfare assistance programs. The changes are built on philosophical shift from a system of entitlement to a system that emphasizes work, self-sufficiency and personal responsibility. The revisions in the bill are consistent with anticipated changes at the federal level in the administration of welfare programs. The act is known as the Work and Gain Economic Self-sufficiency Act (WAGES). Major changes includes time limitations on eligibility for receiving welfare benefits, a requirement that welfare recipients participate in work or an activity designed to lead to employment, modifications to the child care system to ensure that recipients have access to adequate child care, and provisions to identify and involve non-custodial parents in the support of their children. The provisions in the bill that impact education include the following: prekindergarten and Early Intervention Changes the eligibility for the program to provide that at least 75% of the children served in the program must be 4 year olds whose parents are working or participants in the WAGES program.
About Welfare Program
State welfare reform legislation mandated the implementation of a work first deliverymodel, based on the expectation that Texans support themselves and their
http://www.twc.state.tx.us/welref/welrefabout.html

Extractions: home site index about us contact information Search The Texas Workforce Network was first envisioned in 1995 with the passage of House Bill 1863. This legislation consolidated 28 workforce-related programs from 10 different state agencies and created a new agency, the Texas Workforce Commission. It is the establishment of local control over large block-granted programs for employment assistance and self-sufficiency that stands as the cornerstone of the new workforce system. Coupled with this is the belief that local planning based on the economy and labor market needs of each area will produce results that in the end help Texans achieve and sustain economic prosperity. TWC, the 28 workforce development boards and their service providers, whether community based, faith based or private entities, are all part of the Texas Workforce Network. The Texas Workforce Commission (TWC) administers a variety of programs to help adults and youth transition from a life of dependency to one of self-sufficiency. The Commission works closely with communities and businesses to enable families to become self-sufficient. State welfare reform legislation mandated the implementation of a work first delivery model, based on the expectation that Texans support themselves and their families. Both state and federal reform legislation emphasize personal responsibility, time limited cash benefits, and the goal of work instead of welfare. To support these philosophies the TWC and Local Workforce Development Boards have developed a service delivery model with primary emphasis on the goal of employment at the earliest opportunity for applicants and recipients of cash assistance. The Texas Workforce Commission goal for all welfare recipients and applicants is to get a job, find a better job, and then develop a career.
DeMint Votes For Welfare Reform Legislation Aimed At Improving
From the News Room DeMint Votes For welfare reform legislation aimed at improvingsuccessful 1996 welfare law. News Release. Wednesday, May 01, 2002.
http://www.demint.org/news_item.asp?pid=121
Welfare Reform
Reconciliation Act of 1996. Specific research topics include Analysisof welfare reform legislation's impact on health care access;;
http://www.gwhealthpolicy.org/welfare_reform.htm

Extractions: The Center was at the forefront of analyzing the impact of welfare reform on the health system generally and the Medicaid program, specifically. CHSRP's research projects have grown out of its early and groundbreaking analysis of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Specific research topics include: Related Publications Home Managed Care Contracting HIV/AIDS ... Privacy Policy
Benefits For Non-Citizens And Other Welfare Reform Implementation Issues
Department of Justice Order Final Specification of Community Programs Necessaryfor Protection of Life or Safety Under welfare reform legislation PDF version
http://www.aoa.gov/network/welfarereform.html

Extractions: Home Quick Index Site Index What's New ... E-Mail AoA Benefits for Non-Citizens and Other Welfare Reform Implementation Issues HHS/ACF Guidance to Social Services Block Grant grantees on the definition of "Federal Public Benefits" for non-qualified aliens under the 1996 welfare reform law for HHS programs Verification of Citizenship/Alien Status as Applicable to Older Americans Act and Other Programs Administered by the Aging Network (Letter from the Assistant Secretary for Aging)
New York Times Article On Welfare Reform Legislation
Up to now, there have been claims and counterclaims about the success of welfarereform, but there has been no data with which to evaluate those claims, she
http://www.geocities.com/CapitolHill/Senate/5401/nyt.html

Extractions: By RAYMOND HERNANDEZ A LBANY, N.Y. A majority of people who have left New York state's rapidly shrinking welfare rolls have not obtained legitimate jobs, a state survey indicates. The survey, the first of its kind in New York, found that between July 1996 and March 1997, only about 29 percent of former welfare recipients found full-time or part-time jobs. The state Department of Social Services compared lists of people whose benefits ended during each quarter within that period with lists of employees whose wages were reported to the state by their employers in later quarters. Employers are required to file wage reports to the state each quarter. The survey, which has been circulating among policy-makers statewide, raises serious doubts about a bedrock premise of the nation's new welfare laws: that tougher restrictions move people from government dependency into jobs. Of the families in New York City who left the rolls from July to September of 1996, only 32.7 percent showed earnings in the following quarter. Of those who left the rolls between October and December, 32.2 percent showed wages in the next quarter. And of those who left the rolls from January to March 1997, 22.1 showed wages in the next quarter. For the purposes of the study, anybody who made $100 or more in three months after leaving the rolls would have been counted as employed. The report does not distinguish between those who found full-time permanent jobs and those who found only part-time or occasional work.
Newsflash: Article(s) For Welfare Reform And Domestic Violence
As the congressional term comes to an end, it is increasingly unlikelythat the Senate will pass welfare reform legislation. To
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Report On Current Colorado Welfare Reform Legislation
A Senate committee narrowed the proposals for a welfare reform plan last Thursdaywhen it passed a bill to eliminate almost everything from HB 1166 except
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Extractions: The Capitol Reporter: Metropolitan State College of Denver's Internship Newspaper Internet Version, March 3, 1997 http://www.mscd.edu/~caprep/stories.html#Romer Romer outlines welfare needs By: Lorri Spitzer A Senate committee narrowed the proposals for a welfare reform plan last Thursday when it passed a bill to eliminate almost everything from HB 1166 - except House Speaker Chuck Berry's name as primary sponsor - and added the bulk of Sen. Mike Coffman's amended welfare reform bill. The final product, which is now the only comprehensive welfare reform bill in the legislature, comes close to addressing the key issues that Gov. Roy Romer said must be included in a welfare package before he will sign it. Romer said Wednesday in a telephone press conference that a welfare bill would have to include statewide minimum cash benefit levels; statewide standards on sanctions for recipients (such as cutting funds to families who have more children); assistance for legal immigrants; and plans for child care for families moving off welfare and into the work force. After Coffman's bill was inserted, HB 1166 would include all of those provisions except the one applying to legal immigrants. "Those are reasonable conditions, and my attitude is we're going to work with the legislature. I'm going to be as cooperative as I can be," Romer said. "But I can't sign a welfare bill that doesn't have that basic-ingredient package in it."
2001 Welfare Reform Legislation
http://www.westmetro.org/web temp/webdocs/2001welfarereform.htm

Extractions: Summary of Health and Human Services Omnibus Bill (SF 4 Article 10) Counties must mail notices to clients when they have 12 months left and each month thereafter. DHS must develop the notice, which must contain language about the time limit, the number of remaining months, and the hardship extension policy. Between 60 and 180 days before the end of the 60 th month, the job counselor or county agency must review the case and determine if the employment plan is still appropriate or if the client is exempt from ES participation. A face-to-face meeting must also be attempted at which the job counselor/county must: (1) inform the participant how many months have been used and when the participant is expected to reach the time limit; (2) explain hardship extension criteria and what the participant must do to qualify; (3) identify other available resources for the family; (4) discuss appeal rights. If a face-to-face meeting is not possible, a notice of adverse action must be sent. To be eligible for an extension, the person must not be in sanction.
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Washington, DC Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4) released the following statementon the welfare reform legislation being considered on the House Floor
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Extractions: News from.... Carolyn McCarthy Washington, DC - Congresswoman Carolyn McCarthy (NY-4) released the following statement on the Welfare Reform legislation being considered on the House Floor today. In 1996, Congress successfully reformed the welfare system centered on the principle of "work first" - the idea that the best path to independence from public assistance for welfare recipients is immediate placement in private-sector jobs. Today, the House of Representatives acted on legislation to improve past reforms. I was heartened that the House leadership's bill maintains a strong emphasis on the work requirements. However, it utterly fails to help our cash-starved states finish the job of reform and move more recipients into work. I voted for alternative legislation that helps people find real jobs, rewards states when people leave welfare for work, and gives each state flexibility in determining the best mix of services and activities needed to move welfare recipients to self-sufficiency. I sit on the House Education and Workforce Committee, which has jurisdiction over the work requirements in the bill. I support strengthening the current work requirements from 20 to 24 hours for mothers with children. However, failing to account for the childcare needs that a change in work-hours places upon a family is simply irresponsible legislation.
House Passes Pryce Legislation To Build On Welfare Reforms Success
May 16, 2002 House Passes Pryce Legislation to Build on Welfare Reforms Success. TheHouse welfare reform legislation is the product of strong reflection
http://www.house.gov/pryce/releases/Release2002/051602_welform.htm

Extractions: May 16, 2002 House Passes Pryce Legislation to Build on Welfare Reforms Success Washington, D.C. The United States House of Representatives today passed the " Personal Responsibility, Work, and Family Promotion Act," sponsored by House Republican Conference Vice Chairman Deborah Pryce (R-Upper Arlington), to build upon the current success of welfare reform and reauthorize the 1996 welfare reform law. A key component of the legislation includes helping welfare recipients achieve independence through work by increasing minimum work requirements. States will be required to have welfare families working and participating in other job-preparation activities 40 hours per week, of which up to 16 hours can be education or training as defined by the states. Protecting children and strengthening families by increasing child care funding and improving the quality of child care are also key provisions in the bill. The legislation encourages healthy marriages by offering pre-marital education and counseling, as well as efforts to promote responsible fatherhood. Pryce has also been instrumental in securing an additional $2 billion in resources for Child Care Block Grants to states. "As a mother who was deeply immersed in the effort to include child care provisions in the 1996 welfare reform law, I am pleased that we were able to again secure additional resources to meet the child care needs of families moving from welfare to work," Pryce said. "Much of the success of welfare reform so far is because tools such as child care are available. Increased work and training requirements can only be effective if we are mindful of the needs of parents to care for their children."
357: Mississippi's 1997 Welfare Reform Legislation
The Joint Committee on Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review. Report 357. A Review of Mississippi's 1997 welfare reform legislation. June 10, 1997.
http://www.peer.state.ms.us/357.html

Extractions: Performance Evaluation and Expenditure Review Introduction The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, commonly known as the Federal Welfare Reform Act, mandated significant substantive changes in the operation of public assistance programs administered with federal funds throughout the states. From the states' standpoint, the most significant changes were: The Mississippi Governor's Office, in conjunction with the state Department of Human Services, submitted its first TANF state plan for 1996-1997 to the U. S. Department of Health and Human Services on September 30, 1996. This necessitated legislative action during the 1997 session to conform state law with federal TANF legislation so that the state could receive maximum benefit from the block grant program. The PEER Committee authorized the staff to analyze the state's plan for welfare reform, to assist the chairpersons of the Senate and House committees charged with handling subsequent welfare reform legislation, and to prepare a post-session report on welfare reform.

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