FHCE 2100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 41: Child Care, Aid To Families With Dependent Children, Temporary Assistance For Needy Families

• School: University of Georgia
• Department: Financial Planning, Housing and Consumer Economics
• Course: FHCE 2100
• Professor: Dr.Kabaci

Document Summary

Government agencies created to oversee welfare programs. Department of health and human services (hhs) Department of housing and urban development (hud) Head start help kids get an education. 1996 - personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act (prwora) Replaced afdc with temporary assistance for needy families (tanf) Federal government gives annual lump sums to the states to use to assist the poor. In turn the states must adhere to certain criteria to ensure that those receiving aid are being encouraged to move from welfare work. Abolished most federal eligibility and payment rules, giving states much greater flexibility to design their own programs. Eliminated welfare"s (cid:862)e(cid:374)title(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:863) status so that no one would have an automatic right to benefits. States could choose which families to help: required to continue spending at least 80% of their previous levels under a. Designed to help needy families achieve self sufficiency.