Welfare Reform and the Dynamic Effects of Time Limits

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marc K. Chan

2008 ◽  
Vol 27 (6) ◽  
pp. 1551-1566 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonathan Leonard ◽  
Alexandre Mas


2003 ◽  
Vol 84 (1) ◽  
pp. 31-38 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mary Elizabeth Collins ◽  
Terry S. Lane ◽  
Joyce West Stevens

Changes in welfare programs are likely to have several important effects on populations served by social workers. While most attention has addressed the work requirement and time limits imposed by welfare reform, other aspects of the legislation also require attention. Living requirement legislation for teen parents receiving welfare has led the state of Massachusetts to develop Teen Living Programs (TLPs). TLPs are residential programs that allow teen parents to fulfill the living requirement when they are unable to live in the home of a parent or adult guardian. Data collected during program site visits to report on the implementation of the programs are used in this paper. This report identifies and analyzes issues related to service delivery that may be useful to social workers, policymakers, and program developers interested in supporting adolescent mothers affected by living requirement legislation. Analysis includes discussion of programming and staff, standardization of services, flexibility and individualized services, the residential model, and limitations of the program response.



1999 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
DAN FINN

High levels of long-term unemployment have undermined some of the assumptions of the post-war welfare state. In response most OECD governments are now replacing what have been characterised as passive income support payments with active benefit systems. Many have introduced new time limits to unconditional benefit entitlement in the form of job and training guarantees for those without work. This article describes how the 1993–6 Australian Labor government modernised its commitment to full employment by combining labour market programmes and social security reforms to create a Job Compact for the long-term unemployed. It analyses the achievements of the strategy and what went wrong, and it draws out lessons of relevance to the British Labour government which has committed itself to using job guarantees to build new bridges between welfare and work.



2000 ◽  
Vol 74 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-75 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg J. Duncan ◽  
Kathleen Mullan Harris ◽  
Johanne Boisjoly
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