needed to purchase basic needs Social Security (FICA) Unemployment compensation Temporary Assistance to Needy Families or TANF (states have broad discretion to determine eligibility and benefit levels. families can’t receive benefits for longer than 60 days‚ unwed teenage parents must stay in school and live at home‚ and people convicted of drug felonies cant receive TANF or food stamps. Non working adults must participate in comm. Service and must find work w/in 2 years‚ parents with kids under
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alcoholic. It is the social worker’s job to speak up for the patients in order for him to receive a transplant. Also‚ for example a client is denied TANF; which is a housing accommodation for low income families that he or she is entitled. The social worker is able to advocate with the state public welfare income support organization that supervises the TANF services. In order to be effective‚ it is in the social worker best interest to know eligibility requirements. The overall goal of advocacy is to
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(Leighton‚ Coughlin) 2010 The eligibility changes that are affecting children and immigrants on the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program‚ and will be affecting the TANF‚ which means that the many people will lose their Medicaid coverage. (Leighton‚ Coughlin) 2010 There has been studies that have indicated that those people who have lost Medicaid coverage and have failed to gain private insurance have become uninsured
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Families (TANF)‚ food stamps‚ federally assisted housing‚ postsecondary education assistance‚ and some federal contracts and licenses. Given the sizable population of drug offenders in the United States‚ the number and the impacts of federal denial of benefit provisions may be particularly important if the operations of these provisions work at cross purposes with recent federal initiatives intended to ease prisoner reentry and foster prisoner reintegration into society”. Some states ban (TANF) for a
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Answering question number #3 and #4 in the assignment #3 Below what income would her family be eligible to receive Medicaid‚ Child Health Plus (SCHIP)‚ Food Stamps‚ and subsidized child care? This can be summarized briefly. -Medicaid For families of three‚ maximum net income to qualify for Medicaid is $1285 Alternatives: Family Health Plus (a public health insurance program for adults who are aged 19 to 64 who have income too high to qualify for Medicaid. Family Health Plus is available to
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the job training. Any parent that has a child under the age of six and cannot find day care is eligible for TANF benefits. The TANF program aims at educations and it helps to assist people in jobs. This type of programs is financed through grants from the federal government. It helps provides funds that helps to supply children with food‚ shelter‚ clothing‚ and things of that nature. TANF also helps to pay for day care in order to help a struggling family (DFCS‚
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to provide financial assistance to families had low or no income‚ it also “offered poor families extensive rights‚ with few requirements and no time limits”. On the other hand‚ the TANF program was also created to provide cash assistance to indigent families with dependent children‚ with the only differences that the TANF program “created time limits and work rules‚ capped federal spending and allowed states to turn poor families away”. The article “Poverty” by Charles Murray‚ discusses that those
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Homeless Assistance Act." NCHE - McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act. N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://center.serve.org/nche/m-v.php>. "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)." Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). N.p.‚ n.d. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://www.hhs.gov/recovery/programs/tanf/index.html>. "Temporary Assistance for Needy Families." Wikipedia. Wikimedia Foundation‚ 31 Oct. 2012. Web. 07 Nov. 2012. <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temporary_Assistance_for_Needy_Families>
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The reason why plans such as TANF do not work is because they do not provide nearly enough support in the workforce or directly aid in helping mothers take care of children. Most social policies actually hinder rather than improve the conditions for working class mothers and their
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Ethical Issues that Surround the Welfare System Daniel Pexton SOC 120 Instructor: Sherri Boyd May 11‚ 2012 Ethical Issues that Surround the Welfare System In the last 15 years the welfare system has gone from a government run system‚ to a state run function. This actually promotes a better welfare system that is in favor of all who are involved‚ including the tax payers whom ultimately fund it. Creating a program that helps prevent drug use while on welfare‚ and promoting families to find
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