Welfare Reform: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Legislation Ess

In August 1996, the ad hominem Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) passed. This legislation terminate the Family Aid with Dependent Children (AFDC) and replaced it with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Unlike AFDC, TANF is not an entitlement program. This means that states are under no obligation to provide exchange sufficeance to eligible families. Instead the federal government gives block grants to assist poor families with the emphasis on moving them from benefit to work or deterring them from applying for welfare in the first place. States are no longer have to match federal funds, creating an incentive to eliminate their previous portion of the livelihood for critical programs. Now due to less funding and no well-worn rules or regulations in place, thousands of families never find out that they still particularise for health insurance, childcare or food stamps. ?By eliminating the whole architecture of the old entitl ement program, the federal government eliminated a lot of the existing protections for mountain? (Cahn pg. 1997). A recent study found, 60 percent of former welfare recipients in South Carolina did not know a parent could start transitional Medicaid, and nine states have no outreach efforts to inform parents that they were still authorise to receive childcare assistance after welfare benefits were closed (Sherman, Amey, Duffield, Ebb, & Weinstein, 1998). By denying or reducing coverage the state creates surplus (left over) funds that they are allowed to be used in other programs. Some states even went advance using part of its welfare surplus to fund tax cuts for the pump class (Rose 2000).This new popular movement is in contrary to the veritable purpose of programs like TA... ...households (Sherman et al., 1998). This non-profit investigation recommended BibliographyCahn, Naomi, R. 1997. Representing race outside of explicitly racialized contexts. lolly Law Review. 95 ( February)965-1004.Gilens, Martin. 1996. ?Race Coding? and white opposition to welfare. American Political Science Review. 90 (September)593-612.Rose, Nancy E. 2000. Scapegoating Poor Women An Analysis of Welfare Reform. daybook of Economic Issues. 34 (March)143Sherman, Arloc, Cheryl Amey, Barbara Duffield, Nancy Ebb, and Deborah Weinstein. Welfare to What Early Findings on Family Hardship and Well-Being. Washington, D.C. Children?s Defense Fund and National Coalition for the Homelessness, November 1988.U.S. Bureau of the Census. 1993. Statistical face-lift of the United States 1993. Washington, DC U.S. Government Printing Office.