1. Welfare Reform TANF Work Requirements and the Family

2. Welfare Works: No Turning Back • Purpose • To increase employment and education for adults currently receiving welfare assistance. • Also, to ensure applicants are being notified of resources available and decrease the cycle of families receiving welfare assistance.

3. Introduction • Welfare has been a topic of recent discussion lately. Usually when a person is place on welfare (or government assistance) there is a stigma that they are lazy and not willing to go out and look for a job. • Much of the stigma has been caused by the pre-reform welfare system of lifetime recipients. • Many people are unaware of the guidelines that have been put forth by the United States government in terms of benefit disbursement.

4. Introduction • In order to understand out campaign, one must understand the literature of the welfare reform bills. The following slides will discuss: • Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996(PRWORA) • Basics • Requirements

5. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996(PRWORA) • Basics • This act instituted TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) • Placed a time limit on receiving benefits: • Must obtain work within two (2) years of receiving benefits • Lifetime limit of five (5) years of receiving benefits • Welfare is no longer an entitlement or permanent program

6. Work Requirements for TANF • Recipients must work as soon as job ready/24months • Failure to work can result in reduction/termination of benefits • Single Parent Family • 30 hour weekly average work activity for Single parent • 20 hour weekly average work activity with children under 6 • Two Parent Family • 35 hour weekly average work activity • 55 hour weekly average work activity with federal child care assistance (Office of Family Assistance, 2009)

7. Federal Work Requirements

8. Work Activities • Unsubsidized/subsidized employment • Work experience • On-the-job training • Job search/readiness assistance • Community service • Providing childcare for individuals performing community service (Office of Family Assistance, 2009)

9. Work Activities • Vocational educational training • Job skills training related to work • Education directly related to employment • Secondary school attendance (Office of Family Assistance, 2009)

10. Identified Problems

11. Proposed Solutions

12. Media Tools • Welfare Reform Blog

13. Government Representatives Contact Information