Welfare Checks-Personal Narrative

Changes within the welfare system as a result of policy shifts and by new thinking, more generally in the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), have had many methods, but the one that seemed most important, was that welfare recipients were required to do much more to justify their income support payments than before. The foundation of this new idea is that income support programs should allow individuals to maximise their participation in work. Due to the general shift in welfare administration, the number of activity test requirements an individual in Australia must meet in order to receive unemployment benefits, has expanded significantly since the early 1990s. This complex, overly bureaucratic process means that disadvantaged individuals cannot access the income support payments they require.

The welfare system first came into action during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Unemployed citizens needed federal assistance to escape the reality of severe poverty. The welfare system supplies families with services such as: food stamps, medicaid, and housing among others. The welfare system has played a vital role in the US, in controlling the amount of poverty to a certain level. Sadly, the system has been abused and taken for granted by citizens across the country. The welfare system was previously controlled by the federal government until 1996; the federal government handed over the responsibility to the states in hope of reducing welfare abuse. However, this change has not prevented folks from scamming the system. The

Under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) replaced AFDC, ending some Federal responsibility to welfare assistance. States operate their own programs; determine eligibility services to be provided to needy families, within Federal guidelines. The Federal government cannot regulate the conduct of states except to a few requirements, and states have a wide latitude in administering the program to "provide assistance to needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job preparation, work and marriage; to prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and

Welfare is intended for families or individuals that are in need of assistance with no or little income. For those who do not know, Welfare funds come from hard working individuals that are required to pay taxes. Now we wonder, are the tax payers’ hard earned money going to the right deserving recipients? Welfare fraud is on the rise in this country. Many are taking advantage of the system taking away the help that is meant for people that truly needed help to provide for their families or people that need assistance until they can stand on their own feet. Statistics clearly show that “785,000 to 1.2 million families are illegally receiving welfare benefits. At the average rate of $11,500 per year, this means taxpayers are being

What would happen if the government made changes to the welfare system? There are approximately 110,489,000 of Americans on welfare. Many people benefit from what the system has to offer: food stamps, housing, health insurance, day care, and unemployment. Taxpayers often argue that the individuals who benefit from the system, abuse the system; however, this is not entirely true. Many of the people who receive benefits really and truly need the help. Even though some people believe welfare should be reformed, welfare should not be reformed because 40% of single mothers are poor, some elderly people do not have a support system, and college students can not afford to take extra loans.

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In 1930 the American people lost their hope. The stock market had crashed, and the infrastructure of America had crumbled. Families learned the true meaning of deprivation and hard times. The same fear was in the hearts of all the people… Was this the end of the American dream? The citizens were starving, homeless, and hopeless. The only two things that rekindled their dim faith was their pioneer spirit, and a promise from Franklin D. Roosevelt. Those people knew that the only way to rebuild this country was to get back up again and work hard. The government knew that they had to do something, and that something was The New Deal. This was the beginning of government funded financial assistance, which is known today as welfare. This system has adapted and changed over the years. The biggest change that it has undergone was implemented by President Bill Clinton in 1996. The Welfare Reform Act vowed to end welfare as the people knew it, and there have been numerous controversies over the program since. Welfare negatively affects the American dream by devaluing hard work and creating economic unrest.

All around the world, taxpayers are paying to help support the welfare programs. "On average, each federal income taxpayer in America spends $8,776 annually to keep federal welfare programs afloat." Most of the time, however, there are the people who abuse the welfare program by using it for drugs. So the legislation has proposed the idea of drug testing welfare applicants. According to Stephanie Larson in the article “Should We Drug Test Welfare Recipients?” currently 62% of large employers in the US have drug testing in the work place. So why not on welfare applicants? Also Pennsylvania has not yet passed legislation on this growing topic. Furthermore, approximately 18.3% of Erie County residents are below the poverty line and 29.2% of the

When regarding the articles “The Myth of Sisyphus” by Albert Camus and “Address to the Nation on Labor Day” by Richard Nixon, job productivity and achieving success in life are brought into questioning. Many inconsistencies arise, especially the fact that neither of these concepts are addressed when regarding those dependant on welfare. In examining the topic more in depth, the question of welfares productivity in the workforce was brought forth and will be examined with the following research paper. In today's society, welfare is a common form of government aid usually reserved for the unemployed, ill, disabled, elderly, those with children and veterans. Its use has enhanced and helped thousands of people to stay afloat and get them back on

What is Welfare Fraud and who’s paying the price? Welfare fraud is misuse of various welfare programs; the people who suffer the most from this are the ones who should get benefits but can’t because there is no more funds available and the taxpayers who pay for it. Basically fraudsters withhold certain information or provide inaccurate or false information to receive benefits.  The three most common types of welfare fraud are purposely providing misinformation regarding household family members, failing all forms of income or falsifying information about an inability to work.  Welfare fraud often allows someone to acquire benefits that they do not deserve or they receive benefits for

Welfare has been a safety net for many Americans, when the alternative for them is going without food and shelter. Over the years, the government has provided income for the unemployed, food assistance for the hungry, and health care for the poor. The federal government in the nineteenth century started to provide minimal benefits for the poor. During the twentieth century the United States federal government established a more substantial welfare system to help Americans when they most needed it. In 1996, welfare reform occurred under President Bill Clinton and it significantly changed the structure of welfare. Social Security has gone through significant change from FDR’s signing of the program into law to President George W. Bush’s

I nervously played with the card of shame in my pocket. I only had two cartons of milk and one wheat bread, but I had been mindlessly wondering the store for the past 20 minutes. Every time I inched closer to the cashier, I would spot someone I knew, whether it was classmates, their parents or even kids in the private school across from us. Fate seemed hell-bent on humiliating me that day. Eventually, I realized there would be no end to the stream of people. I nervously clenched my teeth, put on a brave face, and walked to the front of the line. The cashier quickly swiped my groceries, and I discreetly handed her the food stamps. I could feel my face burning and I avoided looking her in the eye. “Thank you!” I quickly said as she handed the card back. I pretended to not see the two Totino-Grace students, who I had met in an interfaith conversation just a few weeks ago and quickly walked to my car.

I could easily compare my social commentary essay—discussing the topic of welfare— to a Thursday. This essay was the most time consuming and by far gave me the most anxiety. Thursday gives me the same emotions. It is only one day away from Friday, which means the only thing on my mind is the weekend. As much as I want to slack off like some of the Americans on welfare, the school atmosphere doesn’t allow me to, so I am forced to feel the anxiety of school, rather than the excitement of the weekend.

now we are living in a system where people went from welfare to work and back to welfare with a slowing economy those who got off of welfare went on make 9 to 12 hour for the first time in there lives and now what is happening once again is the is that people are back to a lower paying jobs or no job having to make a decisions about the ends justifying the means the authors talk a lot about what a mother would have to go through in order to make ends meet, but what they did not speak of is the single moms who are making it on low end paying jobs.      

Everyone is guilty of judging another person at some point in his or her life whether they realize it or not. For instance, if you see a child screaming uncontrollably in Wal-Mart, you might think his parents didn’t raise him in a “correct” way. Society makes it so easy to criticize others between all the tabloids and articles on social media. While criticizing others may be easy, we all know it is wrong. While the problem remains in our judgement of the people around us, the solution centers around tolerance and equality.