Welfare Reform Ideas
Welfare Reform
Many people do not know all of the welfare services that are provide by the United States. The most common forms of welfare that people know about are food stamps and child support. When really there is actually a fairly large list of welfare services provided. These services include cash assistance, the child support program, child care, energy or utility assistance, food assistance, medical assistance, vocational rehabilitation services. In 1996 President Bill Clinton decided that the welfare system needed to be changed or reformed in order to fit the current times. Before 1996 the welfare system had its flaws which was often abused by people for example people did not feel the need to get an actual job because they knew that the US Government would continue to provide them with money. President
Clinton said “this is the end of welfare as we know it” before making the final changes on March
29,1996. The purpose of the reform was to make people on welfare less dependent on the government and help them gain more self efficiency along with reducing the overall number of people on welfare.
One of the biggest changes made were that no recipient could have more than five years of assistance cumulatively causing more people to need to get up and do everything in their power to get off of welfare. The requirements for applying to get welfare were also changed. Some of these things were changed for the new welfare; dependant children must be living in the household, all minors must be attending school during school days, all minors and dependants must be fully and appropriately immunized, you must be a legal and permanent resident of the state to which you are applying. The outcome of the reform proved to be a good idea.
The reform had many positive outcomes; for example the child poverty rates went down along
with teen pregnancies. Also with those rates going down nearly 1 million people were kicked off for
Many people do not know all of the welfare services that are provide by the United States. The most common forms of welfare that people know about are food stamps and child support. When really there is actually a fairly large list of welfare services provided. These services include cash assistance, the child support program, child care, energy or utility assistance, food assistance, medical assistance, vocational rehabilitation services. In 1996 President Bill Clinton decided that the welfare system needed to be changed or reformed in order to fit the current times. Before 1996 the welfare system had its flaws which was often abused by people for example people did not feel the need to get an actual job because they knew that the US Government would continue to provide them with money. President
Clinton said “this is the end of welfare as we know it” before making the final changes on March
29,1996. The purpose of the reform was to make people on welfare less dependent on the government and help them gain more self efficiency along with reducing the overall number of people on welfare.
One of the biggest changes made were that no recipient could have more than five years of assistance cumulatively causing more people to need to get up and do everything in their power to get off of welfare. The requirements for applying to get welfare were also changed. Some of these things were changed for the new welfare; dependant children must be living in the household, all minors must be attending school during school days, all minors and dependants must be fully and appropriately immunized, you must be a legal and permanent resident of the state to which you are applying. The outcome of the reform proved to be a good idea.
The reform had many positive outcomes; for example the child poverty rates went down along
with teen pregnancies. Also with those rates going down nearly 1 million people were kicked off for