81. Federal And State Welfare-Related Bills And Regulations 75 th legislation significant to welfare reform. legislation, Author, Caption, Effective. HB 1863, HILDERBRAN, welfare reform, 9/1/95. HR http://www.twc.state.tx.us/welref/welfrelbills.html

home site index about us contact information Search Federal and State Welfare Related Bills and Regulations The following documents are PDF (Portable Document Format) files. To view and print PDF files, you will need Acrobat Reader , available free of charge from Adobe Systems Incorporated. Final TANF Regulation, April, 1999 Welfare-to-Work Grants th Legislation significant to Welfare Reform Legislation Author Caption Effective HB 1863 HILDERBRAN Welfare Reform HR 3734 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 th Legislation House Bill No. 1, General Appropriations Act Conference Committee Relevant Articles pertaining to Welfare Reform are listed below Article Caption HB 1, Article II, DHS, Rider 21 Temporary Emergency Assistance for Families At-Risk of Welfare Dependency HB 1, Article II, DHS, Rider 27 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Maintenance of Effort HB I, Article II, DHS, Rider 31 Earned Income Disregard HB 1, Article II, DHS, Rider 36 Texas Integrated Eligibility Redesign Systems (TIERS) HB 1, Article II, HHSC, Rider 15

82. Literacy Information And Communication System (LINCS) Policy And Legislation - W welfare legislation. Working Toward Independence The President s Plan to Strengthen welfare reform; The Office of Family Assistance (OFA), located in the US http://www.nifl.gov/lincs/collections/policy/welfare.html

Search Literacy Information Skip Navigation Welfare Reform/Welfare-to-Work In 1996, President Clinton signed into law the The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193) , a welfare reform plan that requires work in exchange for time-limited assistance. A new system of block grants to states for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was created, changing the nature and provision of welfare benefits in America. Moving people from welfare into work is now one of the primary goals of federal welfare policy. The Balanced Budget Act of 1997 , signed by President Clinton in 1997 helps to achieve that goal by authorizing the U. S. Department of Labor to provide $2 billion annually in Welfare-to-Work grants to states and local communities to create additional job opportunities for the hardest-to-employ recipients of TANF. Low basic skills are among the most common barriers to employment for TANF clients. Research has shown that recipients with work barriers are less likely to find jobs, have lower earnings on average, and are more likely to lose assistance because of a sanction for program noncompliance than families without barriers. The law that created TANF expires on September 30, 2002. Congress is currently considering legislation to reauthorize the program, which will set the nation's welfare policies for the next five years. Congress is also considering some modifications to the rules and funding of the TANF program, including the rules that apply to adult education and training opportunities.

83. WashingtonPost.com: Welfare Reform Special Report Large disparities have always existed in welfare payments to states, and under the new federal reform legislation, no two states will have the same resources http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/national/longterm/welfare/reform.htm

[an error occurred while processing this directive] Welfare Reform: A Special Report INTRODUCTION Effective Oct. 1, welfare as the nation knew it for the past six decades ended. President Clinton signed historic legislation Aug. 22, which ended the federal guarantee of cash assistance to the poor and turned welfare programs over to the states. "I hope this day will be remembered not for what it ended, but for what it began," Clinton said at a White House ceremony, with three former welfare recipients at his side. With the stroke of a pen, the new law not only impacts recipients of welfare . Top state officials from across the country say they have little idea how to implement many key components of the law. The District of Columbia filed a request early, which the president approved, for exemption from some of the tough terms of the bill. Large disparities have always existed in welfare payments to states, and under the new federal reform legislation, no two states will have the same resources with which to meet the new requirements. This uneven payment system poses difficulties that never existed before and could help determine whether welfare reform succeeds or fails.

84. Washingtonpost.com: Welfare Special Report sharply – 12 percent in the year after the reform legislation was passed. That decline prompted Clinton to declare that We now know that welfare reform works http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/special/welfare/welfare.htm

WELFARE Overview Key Stories Opinion Resources Talk Special Reports Washington, D.C. welfare caseworker Angela Perkins talks to Cynthia Harris. (Juana Arias, Washington Post) Welfare's Changing Face By Dan Froomkin Washingtonpost.com Staff Updated July 23, 1998 Welfare as we knew it no longer exists. The 61-year American tradition of guaranteeing cash assistance to the poor came to an end with the signing of legislation in August 1996. But over time, the system became increasingly unpopular. Political opinion turned against the idea of anyone getting rewarded for being idle. Social critics said welfare was responsible for a permanent underclass of people living off government checks because the incentives to go to work were so weak. Now, a federal system that was once fairly consistent has been turned over to the states, where programs are diverging widely. And it is far from clear whether the poor will be better or worse off. This essay provides an introduction to the following topics: The New System Some Examples The Concerns The Politics ... Where It Stands This special report includes key news stories and a selection of opinions and editorials from The Post. You can share your thoughts and concerns in our

85. TANF Reauthorization Home Page -- An NCC Issues And Actions Guide Social Policy. Book Washington s New Poor Law Chronicles 66 Years of welfare reform legislation. Audio Conferences Ongoing Center http://www.ncccusa.org/publicwitness/tanf.html

Home About the NCC Education Justice ... Make a Gift Reauthorization of TANF and Related Programs: An NCC Issues and Actions Guide for Advocates Get Involved! April 26, 2004, Action Alert: Send Mothers' Day Cards to Your Senators! Sign-Up for the TANF Electronic Advocacy Network! E-Mail Mary Cooper with your name, address, organization, phone, fax and e-mail address. Please use subject line: "Registration for TANF Network." Earlier Action Alerts In 2004 ... April 6, 2004, TANF Update: Contact Your Senator During Spring Recess April 7, 2004, NCC News Release: As Senate Debates, Faith Community Persists Despite Years of Delays and Frustrations in Struggle for Welfare Policy that Lifts Families Out of Poverty March 30 Update Senate Begins Vote on TANF Reauthorization ... March 8, 2004 Update: House, Senate Finance Committee Actions on TANF may be Imminent February 17, 2004: Senate to Vote Soon on TANF Reauthorization In 2003 ... October 10, 2003, Alert: House, Senate Extend Current TANF Program; Advocacy Is As Important As Ever September 21, 2003, Alert on Upcoming Senate Vote on TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) August 8, 2003, TANF Action Alert: Contact Senators in Their Home Offices Before September 2 July 23, 2003, ActionAlert: Contacts Needed Re. TANF with U.S. Senators ... January 10, 2003, Action Alert on TANF Legislation In 2002 ... November 16, 2002, Update on TANF Legislation

86. Issue In Depth: Welfare Reform And Poverty aim of TANF, should be the cornerstone of any legislation forming part in poverty has not declined substantially in the years since welfare reform – in 2002 http://www.movingideas.org/issuesindepth/welfare.html

LIBERAL LINKS! -Must-Reads -Blogs -Advocacy and Action ... Media Resources Features: From Our Members On The Hill In The Fight Issues In Depth ... Contact Moving Ideas Network is a project of The American Prospect What's on TAP: What Reagan Taught Bush by David Lytel Welfare Reform and Poverty Background In 1996, Congress passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) and changed the face of welfare policy in the United States. The new legislation ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), a federal block grant with the goal of promoting self-sufficiency among those members of the population receiving public assistance. Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview , Policy Almanac. Historical Poverty Tables , U.S. Bureau of the Census. Congress ended AFDC in the midst of a national economic boom - In the mid-1990s, Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was growing at 4% a year, with almost full employment and very low inflation. - Productivity increased from 1.5% in the first half of the decade to 2.5% in the latter part (Bureau of Labor Statistics).

87. What Has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts On Welfare Participation, Employme effectiveness of recent welfare reforms, investigating the effects of both statespecific waivers in the early 1990s and the 1996 federal reform legislation. http://papers.nber.org/papers/W7627

Jump to the Navigation Bar What has Welfare Reform Accomplished? Impacts on Welfare Participation, Employment, Income, Poverty, and Family Structure Robert F. Schoeni, Rebecca M. Blank NBER Working Paper No. w7627 Issued in March 2000 Abstract - Problems since Tuesday, June 8? If you had access to the full-text recently, but are seeing this message only from Tuesday June 8th on, it may be that your site has a proxy or cache server with ACLs for our former address space (207.113.108.0/24) rather than basing the ACL on our domain name (nber.org) or (inferior) using our new IP address space (66.151.72.0/23). Please give a copy of this page to the librarian at your institution for action. In the meantime, you can still obtain a copy of the paper by selecting "Information for users expecting free downloads" below. Please contact cuthbert@nber.org for more information. Would you like to subscribe to NBER Working Papers? Click here for more information You may purchase this paper on-line in .pdf format from SSRN.com ($5) for electronic delivery. Information for subscribers and others expecting no-cost downloads Publications Programs Data ... People Publications: Main Publications Page New This Week Working Papers Books ... Paid Subscriptions Programs: Program descriptions and members Working Group Descriptions and Papers Selected Projects: Conference on Research in Income and Wealth Sloan Science and Engineering Workforce Project Call for Papers Data: NBER Collection Business Cycle Dates Latest Business Cycle Memo New Economic Releases Selected Sources

88. Colorado Welfare Reform 2001 CWR Legislative Index Colorado General Assembly 2001 Pinkbook (Directory) Denver Post Coverage of 2001 Session. welfare reform in Colorado Contacts and http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/cwr/

89. Fact Sheet a href="/news/releases/2003/01/20030114.v. smil" /a President Bush Tuesday called on Congress to enact his welfare reform agenda to strengthen families and help more welfare recipients work Help http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030114.html

Issues Education Iraq National Security Economic Security ... More Issues News Current News Press Briefings Proclamations Executive Orders ... Radio News by Date March 2004 February 2004 January 2004 December 2003 ... January 2001 Appointments Nominations Application Photos Photo Essays Search photos by date Federal Facts Federal Statistics West Wing History Home January 2003 For Immediate Release Office of the Press Secretary January 14, 2003 President's Remarks view Fact Sheet President Calls for Action on Welfare Reform Today's Presidential Action President Bush called on Congress to enact his welfare reform agenda to strengthen families and help more welfare recipients work toward independence and self-reliance Help more welfare recipients achieve independence through work. Increase the welfare-to-work resources available for families. Protect children and strengthen families. Empower states and local governments with a new Ticket to Independence initiative with new flexibility to more effectively move people from welfare dependency to work. Last year, Congress began the process of reauthorizing the historic, bipartisan 1996 welfare reform law. According to the Department of Health and Human Services, welfare reform helped to move 4.7 million Americans from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency within three years of enactment, and the number of welfare caseloads has declined by 54% since 1996. The 1996 welfare reform law expired at the end of last year. President Bush is calling on Congress to act now to sustain and expand on the success of welfare reform.

90. CSD Individual Development Accounts In Welfare Reform IDAs In welfare reform. Excerpt from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. Section 404(h) Use http://gwbweb.wustl.edu/csd/Areas_Work/Asset_building/IDAs/Welfare_reform.htm

HOME SEARCH CONTACT US SITE MAP ... MIS IDA IDAs In Welfare Reform Excerpt from the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 Section 404(h): Use of funds for Individual Development Accounts (1) IN GENERAL A State to which a grant is made under section 403 may use the grant to carry out a program to fund individual development accounts (as defined in paragraph two) established by individuals eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part. (2) INDIVIDUAL DEVELOPMENT ACCOUNTS (A) ESTABLISHMENT- Under a State program carried out under paragraph (1), an individual development account may be established by or on behalf of an individual eligible for assistance under the State program operated under this part for the purpose of enabling the individual to accumulate funds for a qualified purpose described in subparagraph (B). (B) QUALIFIED PURPOSE- A qualified purpose described in this subparagraph is 1 or more of the following, as provided by the qualified entity providing assistance to the individual under this subsection:

91. Pulblic Assistance Projects Main Page TOP. Bush s Blunder welfare reform has been a success in many respects. http://www.ncjustice.org/wrin/

Navigation Menu Go to.... Justice Center Home Alerts Community News Consumer Action Network Defenders of Justice Health Access Coalition Hyatt Immigrants Legal Assist. Discussion Board Legislation Links Litigation Living Income Initiative NcexChange Parent Education Poverty Law Litigation Public Assistance Project Staff Support CONTACTS Staff Attorney Sorien K. Schmidt TOP Bush's Blunder Welfare reform has been a success in many respects. But if the White House prevails, that's about to change for the worse. by Mark Greenberg, reprint of article in The American Prospect, July 15, 2002 Holding Families Back: Federal Roadblocks to WorkFirst Success [PDF] May 2002 (4.32 MB) Comments to US HHS regarding TANF Reauthorization See the Justice Center's comments sent to the US Department of Health and Human Services (USDHHS) about changes that should be made to the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant when it is reauthorized by Congress in 2002. During November 2001, USDHHS accepted public comments on TANF changes it should recommend in its TANF Reauthorization proposal that it will send to Congress early in 2002. TABLE of North Carolina TANF Block Grant Spending Plans 1999-Present The North Carolina General Assembly is required to prepare and pass a plan for how the state will spend federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant moneys in the coming fiscal year. This table shows you the spending plans from the first TANF Block Grant plan for State Fiscal Year (SFY) 1998-99 to the most current plan for SFY 2001-2002. These plans are not the actual spending figures, but the planned use for TANF block grant funds in the coming

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