Welfare reform

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Title

Welfare reform: Brief summary of selected major proposals

Creators/Contributors

Burke, Vee (Author)

Solomon, Carmen D. (Author)

Date Issued

1987

Publisher

Library of Congress. Congressional Research Service

Notes

This report provides brief summaries of selected proposals to revise programs of aid for needy children and their families. All proposals would alter treatment of recipients of the program of Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), and some also include recommendations to revise cash welfare for the needy aged, blind, or disabled (Supplemental Security Income--SSI).

The report summarizes several provisions of current law and then describes how the proposals would change them. Examined are: benefit rules, work/school obligations, treatment of earnings, job refusal on income grounds, eligibility of two-parent families, the Federal funding share, and the interaction of AFDC with other programs.

Vee Burke, Specialist in Social Legislation and Carmen D. Solomon, Analyst in Social Legislation, Education and Public Welfare Division

CRS 87-309 EPW

"January 20, 1987"
"Updated August 17, 1987."

SuDoc# 14. 18/3

Language

eng

Date

1987-01-01T00:00:00Z

Extent

40 pages

Genre

book

Type/Format

text