Two of the most recent TV ads of the presidential campaign are
also both two of the most dishonest ads of the presidential campaign. A
Romney commercial makes it sound as if President Obama has decided to
mail a welfare check to everyone in America. That is not the case:[D]oes the memo do what the Romney campaign charges — that it guts welfare reform, gets rid of work requirements entirely, and would “just send you your welfare check”?Read More
Not exactly. The memo states, for instance, that HHS “will only consider approving waivers relating to the work participation requirements that make changes intended to lead to more effective means of meeting the work goals of TANF."
In other words, a state would have to offer an alternative program similar to the work requirements first put into place by the 1990s welfare reform law in order to receive the waiver.
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