LSC: 45 CFR 1639 Welfare Reform (Final Rule) DC 200024250; 202-336-8817; mcondray@lsc.gov. LSC grantees from challenging welfare reform laws when clients seeking specific relief from a welfare agency. http://www.lsc.gov/FOIA/frn/fr1639.htm
Extractions: ELECTRONIC READING ROOM Final Rule 45 CFR Part 1639 Welfare Reform SUMMARY: This Final Rule amends the Legal Services Corporations rule relating to limitations on grantee activities challenging or seeking reform of a welfare system. The main change, to delete the prohibition on the representation of an individual seeking welfare benefits if any such representation involves an effort to amend or otherwise challenge existing law, is necessitated to conform the regulation to the U.S. Supreme Courts decision Legal Services Corporation v. Velazquez, et al. A definition of a term only used in the now deleted phrase is also being deleted. DATES : This final rule is effective May 20, 2002. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT : Mattie C. Condray, Senior Assistant General Counsel, Office of Legal Affairs, Legal Services Corporation, 750 First Street, N.E., Washington, DC 20002-4250; 202-336-8817; mcondray@lsc.gov.
HHS Releases President's Fast Track Welfare Reform - Child Welfare states move even faster on their welfare reform innovations. . quick and easy process to end welfare as we and Human Services http//www.hhs.gov/ THE DEPARTMENT http://library.adoption.com/Child-Welfare/HHS-Releases-Presidents-Fast-Track-Wel
Extractions: adoption forums choose one guatemala international adoptive parents support russia adoption adoptees birthparents community foster care sealed records adoptee support special needs HHS Releases President's Fast Track Welfare Reform Contributed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Page 1 of 1 email article to friend printer friendly version most popular articles read comments review article add to favorites HHS News Release HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala released today a simplified application process that will enable states to submit welfare reform demonstrations and obtain approval within 30 days. President Clinton announced the new fast-track demonstration initiative two weeks ago at the National Governors' Association. "The Clinton administration is helping governors right now to carry out real welfare reform, even as Congress delays on national legislation," said Secretary Shalala. "Two thirds of the states are already trying new ways to promote work and parental responsibility, and to protect children. Today we're creating a fast-track system
Extractions: adoption forums choose one guatemala international adoptive parents support russia adoption adoptees birthparents community foster care sealed records adoptee support special needs HHS Reports Continued Decline in Welfare Reform Caseload Contributed by U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Page 1 of 1 email article to friend printer friendly version most popular articles read comments review article add to favorites HHS News Release HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson today released new caseload statistics that show a continued decline in the number of families receiving temporary assistance nationally under welfare reform during the most recent six-month period for which data are available. Between September 2000 and March 2001, the number of families nationally receiving assistance under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program declined 3 percent from about 2.2 million to about 2.1 million. During the same period, the number of individual TANF recipients declined 4.4 percent from more than 5.7 million to fewer than 5.4 million. Overall there has been a 57 percent decline in the number of people enrolled in TANF since Congress enacted welfare reform in August 1996 - an unprecedented decline in dependency representing nearly 7 million fewer recipients.
N C H S - Data For The 1996 Welfare Reform Law Bonus Data for 1996 welfare reform Law Bonus to Reward Declines in Nonmarital Births The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency within the Centers http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/about/otheract/welfare/welfaredata.htm
Extractions: Change in Nonmarital Birth Ratios by State 199 to The regulations to implement the Bonus to Reward Decrease in Illegitimacy Ratio, an incentive provision included in The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, specify that States and territories will qualify for the Bonus, administered by the Administration for Children and Families, Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), if they are among the top five States with respect to their reduction in the percentage of births that are out of wedlock. The Final Rule to Implement Section 403 (a) (2) of the Social Security Act; Bonus to Reward Decrease in Illegitimacy Ratio was published in the Federal Register , Vol. 64, No. 71, April 14, 1999. The specific birth data that are the basis for the bonus awards are the ratios of nonmarital births to total births for the most recent 2-year period for which data are available and the ratios for the prior 2-year period for each State. The National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), an agency within the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, under HHS was assigned the task of providing the data. The birth data are provided by the States and the District of Columbia to NCHS through the Vital Statistics Cooperative Program. NCHS also obtains birth data from the territories. These data are compiled and published annually by NCHS.
Extractions: About Us Services Computing ... Periodicals Welfare Issues (United States) The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 ( H.R. 3734 ), which eliminates open-ended entitlement programs and makes far-reaching changes to most federally funded welfare programs, was approved by President Clinton on August 22, 1996 ( P.L. 104-193; 110 Stat. 2105/2355 Below is a selected list of websites with information on national welfare reform. Poverty Guidelines, Research, and Measurement Dept. of Health and Human Services. Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation Includes Dept. of Health and Human Services
Organizational Culture Change In Welfare Reform to Implement an EmploymentFocused Approach to welfare reform. ReWORKing welfare Technical Assistance for States and Localities http//aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/Publications/isseorganiza.htm
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = "Page Name" var server = "Server" var channel = "Channel" /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; Vol. 2, No. 4 March 1998 Organizational Culture Change in Welfare Reform by Jeanette M. Hercik, Ph.D Background Welfare policy in America evolves from societal perceptions and expectations that drive the "culture" for the delivery systems that provide services and benefits to welfare recipients. Culture change occurs when people inside and outside the welfare system relate to it in a new way, and rules that motivate individual and collective behavior in the system have changed – at the top, in the middle and at the front line where services and products are delivered to clients. Waivers to permit state welfare reforms and the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) have triggered culture changes by moving welfare toward a philosophy of work, designing new systems to change behavior and eliminating the core concept of welfare as an entitlement program. States and localities also are responding to these policy challenges by altering how welfare agencies carry out the business of helping poor families, in effect changing the culture of organizations implementing welfare reform.
Using Participation To Promote Welfare Reform Goals among the beststudied elements of welfare reform programs. In particular, the National Evaluation of welfare-to-Work available at http//aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/NEWWS http://www.financeprojectinfo.org/Publications/usingparticipationIN.htm
Extractions: /* You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. */ var pageName = ""; /**** DO NOT ALTER ANYTHING BELOW THIS LINE! ****/ var code = ' '; Vol. 7, No. 9 June 2003 Using Participation to Promote Welfare Reform Goals By Nanette Relave Background The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) strengthened requirements for participation in work-related activities. These participation requirements have played a major role in welfare reform by giving federal direction to state and local activities, orienting welfare systems toward work-focused policies and services, fostering organizational culture change, and influencing the behavior of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) applicants and recipients. As welfare reform has unfolded, concerns about participation requirements have emerged. Some stakeholders are concerned the requirements have reduced access to education and training. Others fear not enough TANF recipients are participating in activities that count toward federal participation requirements. The debate on TANF reauthorization has brought such concerns to the forefront. PRWORA established participation rates one for all families and another for two-parent families that states must meet or face a reduction in their TANF block grant. The current all-families rate is 50 percent and the current two-parent rate is 90 percent. To count toward these federal rates, TANF recipients must spend a minimum number of hours per week in one or more allowable activities. However, a caseload reduction credit that lowers participation rates has lessened the impact of the federal requirements. More information on participation requirements is available from the Welfare Information Network at
Welfare Reform The most controversial elements of welfare reformwork requirements 3730314 FAX www.michigan.gov/mdcd. Michigan Family Independence Agency 235 South Grand http://www.michiganinbrief.org/edition07/Chapter5/WelformReform.htm
Extractions: Welfare Reform: TANF Reauthorization Family Independence Program (FIP) Michigan's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Food Stamp Program (FSP) Federal U.S. Department of Agriculture program that provides funding to help low-income people purchase food, often through ATM-like debit cards rather than paper coupons or stamps. Current funding for the FSP expires in September 2002 at the same time as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) appropriations. Michigan Family Independence Agency (FIA) The state agency that administers the Family Independence Program (FIP) and related programs, including child daycare, food stamps, and child welfare; also determines eligibility for Medicaid.
PHENOMENON OF INTER-AGENCY GPRA GROUPS leadership through regional leadership and extensive information on welfare reform Resources on the World Wide Web at www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare/. http://govinfo.library.unt.edu/npr/library/papers/bkgrd/wlfwkpm.html
Extractions: Each Federal Department and Agency has developed a "hiring plan" which highlights the personal commitment from the Department Secretary or Agency Administrator. An abbreviated version is published in a report by the Vice President. A copy of this publication can be obtained by calling the National Performance Review (NPR) at (202) 632-0150 or viewed on the web site: w2w.fed.gov Some agencies are planning recognition ceremonies and awards for managers who demonstrate exceptional success in hiring welfare recipients. Agencies are taking advantage of high-tech options to help people find out about jobs by utilizing the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) internet site for federal jobs. HELP IS AVAILABLE: National Performance Review: Serves as the coordinating office for the federal agencies. Gathers reports and information on "best practices." Disseminates information to Federal agencies, FEBs/FEAs, and "Lead Agencies" regarding policy updates and resources available for mentoring services, child care assistance, transit subsidies, etc. Maintains the Federal agencies' Welfare-to-Work plans, located at
Projects: Welfare-to-Work the key participants involved in implementing welfare reform in each Transportation Affordability MTCs Regional welfare to Work by email at ebaker@mtc.ca.gov http://www.mtc.ca.gov/projects/welfare_to_work/wwindex.htm
Extractions: Since the passage of the federal welfare reform legislation, MTC has embarked upon a number of initiatives related to the implementation of welfare reform in the Bay Area, focusing on the role of transportation in helping persons move from welfare-to-work. MTC's role has been to assist transportation providers, social service agency staff, Workforce Investment Boards, childcare advocates, community-based organizations and other stakeholders in identifying transportation-related barriers for the CalWORKs population as well as developing workable solutions to removing these barriers. Below is a status report of the various MTC-initiated welfare-to-work projects as well as a brief description of other MTC projects that may provide benefits to the CalWORKs population in the region. Regional Transportation Working Group MTC has created a staff-level working group consisting of transportation providers (transit agencies, rideshare agencies, paratransit providers) and social service agencies from each of the nine counties along with other key stakeholders as described above. This working group meets monthly to review the status of welfare-to-work transportation planning at the county level, to share ideas for local implementation and to identify planning and implementation activities that may be best approached from a multi-county or regional perspective. MTC has disseminated information on state and federal welfare-to-work funding opportunities related to transportation (e.g., DOL and TEA-21 Job Access and Reverse Commute grant programs) to members of the working group for use in their local planning and implementation.
OFPP Memo Welfare To Work, April 10, 1997 (Ver 04/21/98) on this Program on the Acquisition reform Network (ARNet) website at www.arnet.gov/welfare.html to, ARNet that describes the various agency initiatives to http://www.acqnet.gov/Library/OFPP/PolicyDocs/welof411.html
Extractions: On March 8, 1997, the President called upon the Federal Government, the Nation's largest employer, to join in answering his call for businesses, nonprofit organizations, and religious groups to respond to the challenge of welfare reform by offering jobs to welfare recipients. To ensure deep and continuing involvement in this issue by the White House, the President asked the Vice President to oversee the program. In his radio address to the Nation, the President stressed that all of us have a responsibility and a moral obligation to make welfare reform work, to make sure that those who now must work, can work. The President stated that "this cause must engage the energy and commitment of everyone in society - - of business, houses of worship, labor unions, universities, civic organizations, as well as government at every level. Above all, we must harness the private sector to bring jobs and hope to our hardest-pressed neighborhoods." The Administration is working with businesses to enable them to increase their hiring of people off welfare. As part of that effort, the Administration is proposing welfare reform legislation that would give businesses tax incentives to hire people off welfare and would give job placement firms a bonus for every person they place from welfare into a job.
Welfare Reform (VA SoHHR) welfare reform. Virginia s welfare reform initiative is known as the Virginia Independence Program (VIP). Virginia Independence Program (VIP). http://www.hhr.virginia.gov/Initiatives/welfare.cfm
Extractions: Contact Information Staff Information Woods Biography ... Virginia.gov Virginia's welfare reform initiative is known as the Virginia Independence Program (VIP). Secretary Woods meets with Department of Social Services employees Since the inception of VIP in 1995, the number of families receiving welfare in Virginia has decreased. Many of the families leaving welfare have participated in the Virginia Initiative for Employment not Welfare (VIEW) program, which encourages work and self sufficiency.The results have been impressive. For example, Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF and formerly AFDC), which provides a monthly cash payment to meet basic financial needs, cases have decreased nearly 60 percent from 70,797 to 30,403 cases. And, more than 54,000 former welfare recipients have found employment. The decline in caseload has saved more than $357 million in state and federal funds. This year, Congress is re-authorizing TANF and changes are expected. These federal changes likely will have profound consequences on how Virginia provides assistance to those in need. These changes also represent an opportunity to create a more efficient and effective service delivery system in the Commonwealth.
Congresswoman Pryce On The Issues - Welfare clothes for the new work environment, she was referred to a local agency that provides Other links welfare reform Column. http//www.gop.gov/welfarereform/. http://www.house.gov/pryce/Issues/welfare.htm
Internet Resources http//aspe.os.dhhs.gov/hsp/isp/reform.htm. At the National Association of Community It is another good place to find links to welfare reform resources. http://www.ca.uky.edu/agcollege/fcs/WELFARE/links.htm
Extractions: Rural and Economics Development Programs, Rural Sociology The world wide web has an abundance of information and resources on welfare reform. This ranges from overviews of the legislation to various resources to assist in its implementation. This listing will provide just some of the many sites where such information is available. There are three types of web sites provided: those that are organizational homepages, those that link to general information on welfare reform, and those that link to specific resources. This is not a comprehensive list. Rather I sought to blend good organizational web sites with those that offer unique resources or information. Just type in the web address (begins with http://) into your web browser and stand back. (If for some reason a more detailed web address is not working for you, try the shorter organizations web address. Often, from their home page, you can find your way by clicking on the links.) Implementing Welfare Reform The USDA Cooperative Extension System and the Land Grant Universities has a home page called WRREN: The Welfare Reform Research and Education Network . Here you can learn more about how Cooperative Extension and the Land Grant Universities are participating in welfare reform efforts. You can also learn how to subscribe to their Welfare Reform Listserv.
Welfare Law Center News: HHS OCR Guidance An Ohio case challenges the agencys failure to take account of a is available on the web Civil Rights and welfare reform is at www.hhs.gov/progorg/ocr http://www.welfarelaw.org/hhs_ocr_welfare.htm
Extractions: HHS Office of Civil Rights From October 1999 Welfare News: HHS Office of Civil Rights Addresses Discrimination Issues in Welfare Programs and Reaches Out To Advocates Resources on Welfare Reform and Civil Rights Protections HHS OCR Guidance. A variety of federal statutes prohibit discrimination against individuals based on race, color, national origin, disability, age, or gender (with respect to education programs and activities) in programs or activities receiving federal financial assistance. Other federal statutes also prohibit employment discrimination based on race, color, gender, national origin, religion, disability, or age (for those over 40). These employment protections apply to TANF participants as they do to other workers. Because HHS administers the federal TANF block grant, its Office of Civil Rights addresses issues of compliance by states and other entities running federally financed TANF programs with their obligations under federal civil rights laws. In August, OCR issued two documents on civil rights protections and welfare reform. Development of this guidance was coordinated with other federal agencies that have a role in enforcing civil rights protections in TANF and related programs - the U.S. Departments of Labor, Justice, Education, and Agriculture and the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Gov. Bush Pushes A Welfare Overhaul, Texas Style - Aug. 12, 1998 gov. In Texas, as on the national level, much talk of welfare reform has centered something of a catch phrase for the governor s position on welfare and other http://www.cnn.com/ALLPOLITICS/1998/08/12/bush.privatization/
Extractions: Related Stories Clinton Announces More Health Care For Welfare Families Half Of States Unlikely To Meet First Welfare Deadline Welfare Reform, One Year Later Clinton Lauds Shrinking Welfare Rolls States Must Pay Minimum Wage For Workfare, Administration Rules Administration Explains Drop In Welfare Now The Real Work Of Reforming Welfare Begins Clinton Signs Welfare Reform Bill, Angers Liberals Transcripts and Documents Text of the Texas House Bill to Reform Welfare Eligibility and Distribution Text of Rep. Archer's Amendment to Reform Welfare Eligibility and Distribution Change in Welfare Caseloads Since Enactment Of the New Welfare Law, from ACF Text of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Transcripts of Clinton's Welfare to Work Comments
DWP - Resource Centre Interface (see Benefits Agency product information). Publicity Register members must quote their Publicity Register number. welfare reform products Available http://www.dwp.gov.uk/publications/pubsorder.asp
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Current R&E Projects Officer James V. Dolson Internet jdolson@acf.dhhs.gov. information on wellconceived rural welfare-to-work be used by state and local TANF agencies and others http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/opre/utiliz.htm
Extractions: Internet: jdolson@acf.dhhs.gov Description: This multi-year national evaluation is designed to learn how best to help TANF and other low-income rural families move from welfare to work. The evaluation will lead to increased information on well-conceived rural welfare-to-work strategies and lessons about the operational challenges and methods to address them that can be used by state and local TANF agencies and others. During the initial phase of this initiative, 10 states received planning grants to develop strategies targeted to serve rural TANF populations. These states received assistance from a Federal technical assistance contractor. In FY 2001, MPR was selected to evaluate the implementation phase of the demonstration and the first participating state, Illinois, began implementation in a five-county site. It is expected that four states/sites will participate in the national demonstration and evaluation. Major Research Questions: What types and packages of services are provided under the Rural Welfare-to-Work project, and how do they compare with services already available under TANF or other funding? What are the issues and challenges associated with implementing and operating the service packages and policy approaches studied? What are the net impacts of selected approaches under the project on employment and on families' well being? What are the net costs of the programs, and do the programs/benefits outweigh the costs? What strategies should policymakers and program managers consider in designing approaches to improve the efficacy of welfare-to-work strategies for families in rural areas?
HHS, OCR - Civil Rights Laws And Welfare Reform Overview Index Civil Rights Laws and welfare reform, Overview An Overview; Civil Rights Requirments Title VI of the Civil Rights Attachment Federal Agency Listing. http://www.hhs.gov/ocr/requirec.htm
Extractions: Quick OCR Welfare Reform Index OCR Home OCR's Welfare Reform Page Letter to State and TANF Administrator Civil Rights Laws and Welfare Reform, An Overview ... Technical Assistance for Caseworkers on Civil Rights Laws and Welfare Reform Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 , 29 U.S.C. § 794 ("Section 504") prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by recipients of Federal financial assistance. The Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 , 42 U.S.C. § 12101 et seq. ("ADA"), prohibits discrimination on the basis of disability by both public and private entities, whether or not they receive Federal financial assistance. Providers covered by Section 504 and/or the ADA may not deny benefits or services to qualified individuals with disabilities or provide lesser benefits than they provide to others. In general, an individual with a disability is "qualified" if that person meets the essential eligibility requirements for receipt of services or participation in the program or activity with or without reasonable modification to rules, policies or practices. The purpose of these laws is to ensure that covered programs are as accessible to persons with disabilities as they are to nondisabled individuals. Set forth below are examples of conduct that may violate Section 504 and the ADA: A benefit provider refers persons with disabilities to placement opportunities inappropriately because of the failure to properly and individually take into account a person's known disabilities.
