Welfare Benefit Reform And Alignment Commission (BRAC)

This will give people what they want, it limits placed on government spending and improving the economy's debt. (Magoon 12, 61) Welfare is made to help individuals get back on their feet not a life supply, if you need assistance the government is willing to help but it should be temporary.Welfare is a privilege and abusing the system ruins it for the families in need of help. The government wants to get families out of poverty and by eliminating the problem only helps us by improving our economy. (Magoon 11)

One reform argument is centered on the ?burden? for taxpayers to support people who are not trying to help themselves. Gilens reported, ?The economic self-interest explanation of welfare reform is widely assumed to be true, and debates over public policy often remain on the assumption that the middle class resent paying for programs that benefit only the poor? (Gilens, p. 2, 1996). Reform efforts often focus on general stereotypes of welfare recipients not wanting to work and preferring to take advantage of taxpayer money. Conservatives and liberals refer to ?welfare spending? as excessive and unnecessary. However, prior to the popularity of welfare reform, the U.S. Bureau of Census reported actual money spent on AFDC was only 7% of the $613 billion spend on social welfare which included health care, veterans? programs, education, housing, and pubic aid (tables 579, 583, 1993). With government statistics contradicting claims of excessive spending, there is

Losing Ground: American Social Policy, 1950-1980, which discussed abolishing AFDC because of the issues associated with it. However, 14 years later Clinton changed the program to the Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act that was signed into law in 1996” (Finsterbusch, 2013, p.236). Furthermore, the issues associated with AFDC include that it creates dependency, absent fathers, and people are just too lazy to work. However, many of the issues with welfare are not true, but, changing it to make people go to work and become self-sufficient was the goal for the new initiatives.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is a public welfare program that was created to provide low-income families with financial recourses to pay for food, housing and medical expenses. For several years now families have been given the opportunity to take advantage of the benefits that this welfare program offers. The TANF program was created after Congress and President Clinton passed the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act in 1966. The federal government funds this welfare program and States receives those funds through a federal block grant each year. In order for families to obtain the assistance from this program, they need to first meet a certain number of requirements. The first requirement consists

Welfare reform has failed miserably in its attempt to address the crisis of illegitimacy, therefore requiring more and more funding for assistance

The second groups of users are people who don’t have the intention to use welfare but do (Faherty 26-27). These two groups of people should be led to into independence rather than just given the things they need. They should have better opportunities. The government should take more precautious steps to make sure there are not welfare abusers on the system. By taking more precautious steps, the government can help drive the abusers out and the people that actually need help in.

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was one of the biggest legislation signed by Bill Clinton that focused on welfare. The main goals of this law were to lessen the dependency on federal government welfare while increasing employment and reducing poverty.

two years if at least one year has been spent in a work program. States must

Taxpayer money can be spent on a multitude of items from alcohol, to hair salon visits. Not to mention major luxuries like concert tickets and vacations (“The Investigators” 1). Those extravagances are not what the welfare system intended to be done with hardworking taxpayers’ money. Welfare is meant to be used to buy necessities such as food, clothes, and shelter. Yet many people are using it to buy high price items on other people’s money. The ability to buy anything with welfare needs to stop. Welfare needs to be set up in a way that makes it almost impossible for someone to abuse or take advantage of

Welfare was designed to reduce poverty, yet the poverty rates have only increased. The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (welfare) was designed to help families struggling with financial hardships for a short period of time. It is not a lifelong program like so many assume it is. President Franklin D. Roosevelt once said, “Continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fibre. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit” (Gaiser 3). What he meant by saying this is that we are enabling people to become dependent on others which is detrimental, not only to the recipients of welfare, but to the nation as a whole. We are not doing any good to anyone by continually supporting the poor and underprivileged with welfare systems because they are not doing their job; they are not helping people out of poverty. In fact, the Libertarian Party says they are doing just the opposite, and now that officials have realized this, they are trying to make up for it. However, they are doing so in the wrogn ways. The welfare reform has pushed

While welfare funding can be very beneficial to those in need of financial aid, the system is also frequently abused. People who do not actually need the extra help have found ways to use the system to their advantage, and since federal aid is funded by taxes, this misuse directly affects all taxpayers. Therefore, I believe there should be no changes made to welfare funding within the states until the huge problems in the system have been

“Welfare epitomizes America’s basic bargain, providing opportunity and in return, demanding responsibility” (Clinton). When President Lyndon B. Johnson enacted Welfare in 1966, it was a system envisioned to be an aide for the common man; a support structure that would prevent financial disasters for the individual. Since that time, Welfare has been reformed, deformed, and become abused by the very people it was created to empower. Welfare has been manipulated into a way of life for over 40 million Americans through outrageous benefits and unearned paychecks being supplied at an endless rate. This issue harms not only the economy as a whole, but also the individuals who receive such benefits. Welfare checks have become free handouts to

Various research have been conducted surrounding the effects of welfare on families and individuals. Welfare may not seem like a big deal in America, but we are spending millions of taxpayer dollars on welfare a year. The many programs inside welfare do have some benefits as well as shortcomings. Education declines and work incentives are just some of the major issues that surface from being on welfare. Although advocates of welfare believe it is supporting the poor, the programs within welfare are decreasing the positive numbers of education and work while raising questions of whether or not reform has been beneficial. Welfare reform has been an issue since the 1970s (Moffitt 2015). Regardless of the new programs put into place, the wanted

Welfare Reform: Promoting Personal Responsibility and Serving the Needs of the PoorIntroductionDuring Bill Clinton’s campaign for Presidency in 1992, he promised Americans that he would make it his priority to end welfare as we know it (Clinton). This goal was made in response to the increase of public pressure to reform a system that many believed had become wasteful and ineffective. In response to this criticism, Clinton called attention to the importance of work instead of dependency on the government. He followed through with his promises and effectively transformed welfare programs unlike any other president. He took a system that was known for its long-term dependency and transformed it to help people become self-supporting. In this