Commonly referred to as welfare, these two federal programs help families with dependent children by providing financial assistance each month. Eligible children are from low-income households and lack support of one or both parents.
The now-defunct federal entitlement program of cash assistance for poor families. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) replaced AFDC on July 1, 1997, and established work requirements and lifetime limits on the receipt of benefits. Adults and children who meet former AFDC criteria for receipt of cash assistance are still eligible for Medicaid.
A state-based federal assistance program that provided cash payments to needy children (and their caretakers), who met certain income requirements. AFDC has now been replaced by a new block grant program.
The former entitlement program that made public assistance payments on behalf of children who did not have the financial support of one of their parents by reason of death, disability, or continued absence from the home. This is known as Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) in many states. It was replaced by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA).
A program of financial assistance, available to families with one or more dependent children or on behalf of dependent children in foster care under the guardianship of the Department of Children and Family Services, who qualify for these services under Title IV-A of the Social Security Act. This program is administered in Illinois by the Department of Healthcare and Family Services.
This was a federal program providing public assistance on behalf of children who did not have the financial support of one of their parents due to the parent's death, disability, or continued absence. It was known in Vermont as Aid to Needy Families With Children (ANFC) and has been replaced by a program called Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF). (See TANF definition). In Vermont, this is known as Reach Up or (RUFA).
a government subsidized program that offers financial assistance to eligible families. Ask your social worker for additional information on this and other programs you may be eligible for.
A State-based Federal cash assistance program for low-income families that was abolished in 1997 by Congress and replaced by the Transitional Assistance for Needy Families Program.
Federal welfare program that was replaced, in part, by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant.
A federal cash assistance entitlement program; states are required to cover its beneficiaries under Medicaid.
AFDC is the federal welfare program, which was replaced by the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) initiative in 1996. AFDC was viewed by many as a familial and societal program that perpetuated entitlement programmatic initiatives, which were rife with abuse, and lacked incentives for self/family sufficiency. TANF is a time limited benefit that requires recipients to perform mandatory hours of work.
The federal AFDC program provides cash welfare to: (1) needy children who have been deprived of parental support and (2) certain others in the household of such child. States administer the AFDC program with funding from both the federal government and state. The Personal Responsibility & Work Responsibility Act of 1996, enacted in August 1996, replaced AFDC with a new program called Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF).
AFDC provided cash assistance and work support, including child care assistance, to low income families with children until the program was repealed in 1996 and replaced with TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families, described below).
Former entitlement program that made public assistance payments on behalf of children who did not have the financial support of one of their parents by reason of death, disability, or continued absence from the home; known in many States as ADC (Aid to Dependent Children). Replaced with Temporary Aid to Needy Families (TANF) under the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA).
Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) was the name of a federal assistance program in effect from 1935 to 1997http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2001/takeitfromme/abouttheissues.html PBS.org, Timeline of National Welfare Reform, which was administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The program was created under the name Aid to Dependent Children (ADC) by the Social Security Act of 1935 as part of the New Deal; the words "families with" were added to the name in 1960 partly due to concern that the program's rules discouraged marriage. http://www.futureofchildren.org/information2827/information_show.htm?doc_id=72243 futureofchildren.org FULL JOURNAL ISSUE: Welfare to Work A Brief History of Work Expectations for Welfare Mothers Susan W. Blank and Barbara B.