Human Rights at Home and Abroad: Past, Present, and Future

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Requirements Considered to Qualify for Welfare There are many different forms of welfare which include different requirements for each type. We will focus on the requirements considered to qualify for cash assistance; which is the most common type of welfare used today in the United States. There are five forms of cash assistance available to families in the United States. The five different types of cash assistance include the following: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), Refugee Cash Assistance Program, General Assistance Program, Diversion Program, and State Blind Pension Program. In order to provide the most accurate requirements to qualify for cash assistance, we will focus on the most frequent type of cash assistance, TANF. We then will further focus on the requirements that must be metin Pennsylvania. TANF may be used for up to five years throughout a person‘s lifetime. It is considered to be for temporary use and money is received on a monthly basis. TANF is most commonly used among the following people: parents and their children who reside in their household, women who are pregnant, and other relatives that care for children in their household. There are many requirements that must be fulfilled in order to receive TANF. The first requirement that must be met is the person must be a resident of Pennsylvania and must be a U.S. citizen. Secondly the welfare recipient and household members receiving the cash assistance must be able to provide their own social security numbers. Thirdly, in order to receive cash assistance, the recipient receiving the welfare must either participate in a training program or must actively look for employment. The fourth requirement includes full participation in preparing a plan with their assigned caseworker for what must be done to no longer receive the assistance of welfare. Another major requirement that must be met includes the participation in child support payments and paternity tests. If child support payments are currently not being received by a dependent child‘s parent, then payments must be determined to aide in helping the family. Also, if child support payments 9
are not being received as a result of identification problems of the father, paternity tests must be performed in order to determine who must make the child support payments. An additional requirement is based on the value of the recipient‘s resources. A few examples of a recipient‘s resources include: bonds/stocks, checking accounts, and savings accounts. These resources must have a value of less than $1,000. Finally, the last requirement needed to determine eligibility of TANF is the reporting of income. All income must be reported including: wages from employment, child support payments, miscellaneous winnings, unemployment benefits, Social Security payments, and interest received (PA Department of Public Welfare). All of the requirements mentioned above must be completed and proper documentation must support the information. The United States has tried to lower welfare fraud through this list of requirements, but U.S. citizens continue to abuse the welfare system. Misuses of Welfare Programs Welfare fraud refers to the intentional misuses of various state funded welfare programs by acquiring benefits that are undeserved of the recipient. These misuses can be withholding information or providing inaccurate or false information to receive benefits. The most common types of welfare fraud are failure to report additional income, failure to disclose information regarding household members, or supplying false information about an inability to work. Some cases have exposed people to contriving an illness or injury to receive extra benefits. A few real-life examples are from a woman named Dorothy Woods. She was jailed on 12 counts of welfare fraud and collected over $300,000 by claiming 38 non-existent children. Another woman, Barbara Williams, had collected over $239,000 in fraudulent benefits. She was jailed for eight years (What Is Welfare Fraud?, 2009). In 2006, Pennsylvania conducted an 18-month audit on the Department of Public Welfare's special-allowance program. The auditors reviewed a random sample of 3,201 payments, of which 45% of 10
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