Each state will determine eligibility. Workfare -states must place 25 percent of recipients in jobs by 1997 and 50 percent by 2002 or suffer reductions in their block grants of up to 21 percent. Work participation means that the head of household of a family receiving assistance is working at least 20 hours a week, an amount that rises to 30 hours a week after the year 2000. Lifetime limits -no person can be on welfare more than five years in a lifetime.
States can impose shorter time limit.
In addition, states can deny all assistance to unwed teenage parents children born to welfare recipients. They were overwhelmingly female. They were predominantly Black and Hispanic. They included almost no teenage mothers, wed or unwed. Most recipient families were not large.