In Examining Tanf (Transitional Assistance To Needy Families),

Federal Government has the ability to create positive change in many social welfare systems. The support of the government ultimately determines the success of a social welfare program. They play an important role in the decisions of how funds are allocated and the importance of these various vulnerable populations. The federal government is used as a tool, to help implement and support social welfare programs. However, from my own opinion, it is sometimes lacking in the proper support needed in many aspects. This is caused by a plethora of reasons, not to say that the government is completely unsupportive. Yet, there may be a gap in the perception of these social issues. The government puts in place laws, regulations, system structures, and so on. Therefore, because the government are the implementers of how our country is ran, it is their responsibility to be a main facets in the support of the gaps that inevitably occur. Nonetheless, it can be difficult to understand the needs of these population’s and the reality of their hardships. Most in a position of power, such as the federal government, have not experienced the severity of the many situations, that results in individuals needing assistance from these social welfare programs. Moreover, it is essential that there is outreach to these populations. All the same, getting a more realistic view of the life in these contexts. For instance, the time cap of being on assistance throughout one’s

In the 1960’s the ADC ballooned into Aid to Dependent Families and Children allowing the stipend to increase to involve the caregiver. The Families used ADFC income to pay for expenses such as rent, utilities, food and other needs (hhs.state.ne.us,2009). ADFC discouraged marriage, pursuing a job which created a dependency on the program. By 1996, TANF was created to replace ADFC and created caps on the system. TANF is public assistance that requires participants to maintain a job and they can only receive benefits for a total of five years. People who qualify for TANF fall under the public’s eye as having a worthiness problem (N. Reid, personal communication, November, 2010). People tend to judge recipients of TANF creating harsh criticism about the program.

Programs like the Educational and Training Voucher (ETV) Program for foster youth, which helps pay for post-secondary education and training. The John H. Chafee Foster Care Independent Living Program (CFCIP) (another name for FCIA), implements services which included educational instruction, work, and economic support. Additional federal programs, such as the Workforce Investment Act (WIA), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), and Medicaid, give states the leeway to use different resources to help children move out of the foster care system (nga.org, 2007). States would encourage the independence of these youth by giving assistance in achieving a high school diploma, higher education, work-force training, skills in budgeting, drug abuse and preventive health education

It is usually available to families who have children that are eighteen years or younger and living at home with the parents. Over the years, the number of recipients has continued to rise tremendously. In 2012, 68 families for every 100 received TANF benefits (Kearney, 2014). However, this figure increased in 2013, with 76 families for every 100 receiving the benefits (Kearney, 2014). The largest part of this increase was indeed legal. However, of the total new membership cases, about 15 percent were fraudulent. The amount that that state used in meeting the needs of the fraudsters in 2013 is thought to have been $5 million (Esping-Andersen, 2013). The major reason for such a low incidence of welfare benefit fraud has been due to the stern law. Nevertheless, the cost foregone is still an economic wastage for Texas. Besides lowering the ability of Texas to achieve a higher economic potential, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefit fraud is critical as it denies the eligible or the legal recipients a better level of assistance. If fraud was eliminated completely, the needy would be availed with more meaningful level of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families benefits and this would improve their social well-being

As of September, 2011 in the United States over 400,540 children were in the foster care system. The Minnesota Department of Human Services, 2011) defines foster care as, ?A 24-hour substitute care for children placed away from their parents or guardians and for whom the State agency has placement and care responsibility.? Of the 400,540 children in foster care nationwide, 195,400 were Floridians. With the fifty social service programs nationwide, Florida is one of a very few states in the nation with statewide privatization of social services, for this study, with an emphasis on privatization of foster care. In the present paper, the privatization of foster care plays a significant role in the care and placement of Florida?s abused, neglected, and abandoned children. The major thrust of privatization of foster care was implemented under the administration of Governor Jeb Bush, a staunch political conservative. The purpose of privatization was to provide better foster care services to stake-holders, primarily to find permanent homes for foster children. The Bush administration was always trying to adhere to the conservative mantra of fiscal reduction as it pertained to social services

The American Public never loved social welfare programs, but it did not necessarily want them dismantled. In fact, by the early 1990s, nearly 50 percent of all households drew on government benefits from Food stamps to social security to mortgage interest tax deductions.

TANF which is a program that provides cash assistance to needy families. The state is permitted to drug-test these recipients. Although the states must have a “reasonable suspicion” of illicit drug use in order to perform the test. TANF and SNAP are two very closely related programs. Administrators have tried to limit assistance to only “worthy” families. The definition of a worthy family has changed over the years. In the past it was based on a families morals. As where today it is base on crime and drugs.

North Carolina’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is one of the primary forms of Medicaid. TANF is also called Work First, which is based on the premise that parents have a responsibility to support themselves and their children. Through Work First, parents can get short-term training and other services to help them become employed and self-sufficient later on, but the responsibility is theirs to find the actual job. Most families have two years or less to move off Work First Family Assistance and after that they are completely on their own. According to a document found on Civic Report, the sixty percent of the rise employment among single mothers is due to the fact the

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a federally funded program that was created to assist needy families in becoming self-sufficient. According to the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, TANF has four major purposes. (U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, 2015) The first is to “provide assistance to needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes”. The second is to “reduce the dependency of needy parents by promoting job preparation, work and marriage”. The third is to “prevent and reduce the incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies”. The final purpose is to “encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families”. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program allows the States flexibility in identifying criteria for the populations served. However, there are a few general and federally imposed restrictions that are as follows. States must

Poverty has been a problem in Milwaukee, Wisconsin for years. The introduction of TANF seemed to be a hopeful new start for families in need, but what has TANF really instituted and accomplished? After years of a system of welfare “recipients” gaining cash assistance from the government, the new system was meant to inspire welfare “participants” to actively work in order to earn their cash assistance. While TANF has been implemented across the country, it’s effect on Milwaukee has yet to show any great significance. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families is simply a reformation of the welfare system with stringent work requirements, yet lacking the employment opportunities and resources necessary to accomplish its broad range of goals, ultimately to the disadvantage of those dependent on it.

According to the 2014 U.S. Census Bureau report, more than 46 million Americans remain below the poverty line, despite the fact that U.S. taxpayers spend about $1 trillion a year for anti-poverty programs, including TANF, which provides assistance to families with little or no income. In 1996, Welfare Reform was passed by President Bill Clinton, this legislation was known as the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 which replaced President Franklin D. Roosevelt welfare program that was initiated in 1935. The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program provided benefits to poor families with children, before it became known as Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) a block grant

In this paper we look at the different aspects of the Social Welfare program, TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families). TANF is the final variation today of the many cash assistance programs that are available to children and families. In this paper we also focus on who is eligible for TANF and where the funds are going to. With a review of the literature it is shown that living off cash assistance is not easy and how it affects the participant’s life. There is also a look at unintended consequences and why this program did not work well in practice with suggestions for improvement.

I believe that people who are in need should get the proper assistance they deserve. In high school, I volunteered at a soup kitchen and saw how children struggled to obtain their basic needs and in some essence, loss a piece of their childhood. I support TANF especially since it helps families, which includes aiding children who do not have the ability to support themselves. It is hard for me to see the children suffer especially since it is no fault of their own.

The ACF handles cases related to children such as: abuse, neglect and support and looks into the welfare of needy families by providing temporary assistance (USA GOV, 2016). While these programs are not specifically targeted at the single parenthoods their scope does include the plight of single families. However, some government policies have strictly set up programs which oriented solely to single parent families (Arloc Sherman, 2013).

In 1935, AFDC, the Aid to Families with Dependent Children was created mainly to provide federal grants to help the states maintain their mothers’ aid laws to help out needy mother. Designed to support children in need in where one parent was absent, deceased, unemployed or disabled. With AFDC the U.S. government agreed to provided 1/3 of costs, the program offered aid to poor parents, initially envisioned to be