WELFARE REFORM ACT

Welfare Reform Act

Welfare Reform Act

Introduction

Welfare system is popular among many people. Welfare considered being anti-work and antitrust the people complain that it is to flexible and give money for convenience. In 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, also known as the Welfare Reform Law signed into law by President Clinton. This act ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children, which had provided economic assistance to unwed mothers since the Social Security Act of 1935. Currently in effect is a “new” system called Temporary Aid to Needy Families, this system dramatically changed the rules, ending the entitlement nature of cash benefits, setting time limits on assistance, and imposing a work requirement on healthy recipients. Living in a society with different communities of people, it is necessary to have a welfare state. Thus, it is such a vast topic to discuss which involves the responsibilities of the government towards their citizens. According to Thomas Duesrerberg:

The great depression of 1930's in America has been the deciding factor in bringing up of the welfare that has totally affected the American economy.

Welfare reform Act

Work opportunity Reconciliation and the Personal Responsibility Act of 1996 are U.S federal law that considered being a shift in both the goal and method of federal cash assistance to pitiable people. When the U.S. Congress passed the welfare reform law in 1996, there were no reliable data, which they can expect how these reforms will work. The aim of many policy-makers obvious is to achieve well-being of families and not necessarily improve the economic well-being. Thus, this bill not only added the workforce development to the welfare legislation but also encourages employment opportunity to the needy and poor people. It can also be said that the legislators had taken a sweeping adventure in the welfare reforms have succeeded in the end, in many ...