Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Bill To Drug Test For Welfare Gets 1st Hearing

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:09 GMT

Colorado lawmakers are considering making welfare recipients take a drug test before receiving benefits.

Real Pains of the Unemployed - Black Star News

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 10:38 GMT

Real Pains of the Unemployed
Black Star News
She also signed up for food stamps and in June 2010, for cash assistance from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Anyone who thinks welfare recipients do nothing but sit around and cash their checks isn't familiar with the schedules of ...

More new businesses open doors - Tahlequah Daily Press

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 09:56 GMT

More new businesses open doors
Tahlequah Daily Press
... assistance program like food stamps, Medicaid, Supplemental Social Security Income, Federal Housing Assistance Program, Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program, National School Lunch's Free Lunch Pogram or Temporary-Assistance for Needy Families.

Lawmakers Consider Drug Test For Welfare

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 08:08 GMT

Colorado lawmakers are considering making welfare recipients take a drug test before receiving benefits.

Lawmakers Consider Drug Test For Welfare - KMGH Denver

Thu, 09 Feb 2012 07:55 GMT

Lawmakers Consider Drug Test For Welfare
KMGH Denver
House Bill 1046 would require applicants of the Colorado Works Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to pay for and pass a drug test before receiving assistance. People who passed the drug test would be reimbursed for the cost.
Florida bill would ban buying sweets with food stampsThe South Florida Times
Are PA Legislators Trying to Get on “The Daily Show”?Philadelphia Magazine (blog)

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I just want a job! - Madison Times

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 18:36 GMT

Madison Times

I just want a job!
Madison Times
She also signed up for food stamps and in June 2010, for cash assistance from Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Anyone who thinks welfare recipients do nothing but sit around and cash their checks isn't familiar with the schedules of ...

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich Don't Get the Social Safety Net - U.S. News & World Report (blog)

Wed, 08 Feb 2012 14:47 GMT

U.S. News & World Report (blog)

Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich Don't Get the Social Safety Net
U.S. News & World Report (blog)
Moreover, proposals to cut benefits and convert safety net programs now available to any qualified applicant to fixed-dollar block grants are misguided, as the history of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF, the program created in the 1996 ...

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Favola Bill Would 'Restore Fairness' to Needy Family Assistance Program - FairfaxNews.com

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:10 GMT

Favola Bill Would 'Restore Fairness' to Needy Family Assistance Program
FairfaxNews.com
Senator Favola said her proposed legislation would restore fairness to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program by rescinding the lifetime ban on ex-offenders convicted of drug possession. Under current law, felons who are convicted ...

Pa. gov gets mixed response on proposals to cut, consolidate, welfare programs - The Republic

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 15:32 GMT

Pa. gov gets mixed response on proposals to cut, consolidate, welfare programs
The Republic
Department Secretary Gary Alexander told reporters at a budget briefing that his massive department is striving to maintain "core" safety-net programs — Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Medicaid and food stamps — while cutting other costs by ...

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Bills requiring drug testing for welfare recipients fail in committee - Rapid City Journal

Tue, 07 Feb 2012 11:14 GMT

Bills requiring drug testing for welfare recipients fail in committee
Rapid City Journal
Lawmakers voted down both HB 1268, which would have set up a pilot drug test program for Medicaid recipients, and HB 1174, which would have allowed drug testing for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program. Supporters of both bills said they ...

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