Text of Feb. 6 press release. State pursues intensive efforts to help Pennsylvanians approaching five-year federal lifetime limit on cash assistance.
Ridge proposes dramatic new housing initiative.
The Governor s new spending plan focuses efforts on families with the greatest barriers to employment, and those approaching their five-year federal lifetime limit on cash assistance. Over the last four years, more than 210,000 Pennsylvania families have left the cash-assistance rolls and have not returned. Next year will mark the five-year lifetime limit for some welfare recipients. This budget will offer help to every willing person before that deadline comes. The first welfare clients in Pennsylvania will begin reaching the five-year limit in March 2002.