This myth has been making the rounds for weeks, but when Rick Santorum had the gall to say it straight into a camera, and straight into Americans' living rooms, I had to write this post. Santorum stated in his speech at the RNC last night that President Obama had eliminated the work requirement for welfare; that is, that the President has authorized assistance checks to be handed out without requiring the recipients to work or train for a job. The thing it, it's not true. Santorum and the Republicans know it's not true. They are hoping that people will hear these claims and believe them without doing some research. So I've done the research for you, and can prove that President Obama has not removed the work requirement.
Welfare-to-work, officially titled Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is a law passed in 1996 which requires welfare recipients to work, undertake job training, study for a GED, or search for a job in order to receive funds. States are required to track the hours spent by recipients in these activities, and 50% of recipients must participate. Success is generally measured by hours spent in the aforementioned activities, not by whether the recipients actually get a job.
Recently, several states had asked the federal government for more flexibility in how they hand out welfare dollars. These states (some of whom have Republican governors, just as an aside) wished to experiment with different ways to help connect welfare recipients with jobs. These include substance-abuse programs and spending more time in vocational training. The federal government obliged by waiving the original requirements for those states, ON THE CONDITION that these states' new plans are able to move 20% MORE people from welfare to work than they did under the original requirements. So in fact, the Obama administration's additional option actually requires more welfare-to-work success, not less. And option is they key term; states can maintain the status quo and for them, TANF remains exactly the same.
What was wrong with the original TANF requirements? Well, states don't get credit when a recipient gets a job that pays well enough that they no longer qualify for benefits. They get credit when recipients leave TANF, whether it's for a job or because they did not meet the work/training/school requirements and were kicked out of the program. As a result, some states were making the work/training/school requirements onerous enough that recipients could not meet them and thus could not stay qualified for benefits. The result is that many people who wanted to get training, get a job, and get off assistance simply couldn't do so, and now they have neither a job nor assistance...while the state gets "credit" for someone getting off assistance. Several states decided they could do better for their needy residents by creating their own tailored welfare-to work plans. These states approached the federal government, and the Obama administration decided that it made sense to try a different method that may provide better outcomes.
How we got from "increased flexibilty on the condition of greater success" to "eliminating the work requirement" is a mystery to me. Just know that it is a lie...and it will surely not be the only lie you hear in the next two months. Even if you are not an Obama supporter, it behooves you to know the TRUTH about both candidates before you vote, and not base your vote on blatant falsehoods.
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