Implementation Of Welfare Reform And Child Support Enforcement

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A forum for the Dept. of Health and Human Services to provide a progress report on what they are doing to initiate implementation of the new welfare reform bill, which marks a dramatic change in U.S. social policy to help end welfare dependency. Witnesses from identified provisions of the law they expect states to have difficulty implementing, and recommend ways to deal with these difficult provisions. They represented: Amer. Public Welfare Assoc.; Cal. Dept. of Social Services; Center for Law and Social Policy; Children's Rights Council; Nat. Women's Law Center; Nat. Women's Law Center; LA DA Bur. of Family Support, and many more.

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On August 22, 1996, President William Clinton signed into law the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996. Media and goververnment sources portrayed this act as the most important welfare reform since the passage of Social Security in the New Deal 61 years earlier. The hype around welfare reform overshadowed a significant section of the act entitled, “Title III—Child Support.” This section of the act made major changes in the child support program that is charged with the task of establishing, enforcing and modifying child support orders for children with non-residential parents. This book tells the story of the development and passage of the 1996 child support reforms.