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This 4 page paper discusses some of the issues surrounding welfare and welfare reform. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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of recipients, living on welfare has become a permanent situation, and a comfortable way to live. This paper discusses several aspects of welfare, including how it is supposed to work,
the programs available, and how it can be improved. Discussion Welfare is an enormously complex subject, because there is no one program that is called "welfare." Instead it is a
patchwork of federal and state programs with different qualifications and regulations that, taken together, form a maze that its difficult to comprehend. Well start with some of the basics. There
are five types of aid generally available: cash assistance, Medicaid, "non-health Social Services," public hospitals, and "non-social welfare" (Spending on social welfare programs in rich and poor states, 2004). The
cash assistance category includes AFDC, TANF, and SSI; "non-health Social Services" includes "payments made directly to private vendors for services and commodities other than medical, hospital, and health care"; and
non-social welfare includes such things as education and public transit (Spending on social welfare programs in rich and poor states, 2004). Obviously, the "bum" waiting for a "handout" comprises a
very minor part of what welfare is about. Welfare work programs are generally seen as a means to lessen the number of people, mostly women, on ADFC. "Federal law requires
certain able-bodied AFDC recipients aged 16 years or older to register for work or job training" (Adler, 1988). There are exemptions allowed if the person is ill or incapacitated, older,
a student, taking care of a family member or already working at least 30 hours per week (Adler, 1988). Many state AFDC programs require that recipients "participate in one of
several work programs: the Work Incentive Program, the Community Work Experience Program, Work Supplementation, or Job Search" (Adler, 1988). There are several reasons why it should be mandatory for
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