Claim: A Mitt Romney TV ad claims the Obama administration has adopted "a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements." The plan does neither of those things. Work requirements are not simply being "dropped." States may now change the requirements — revising, adding or eliminating them — as part of a federally approved state-specific plan to increase job placement. And it won't "gut" the 1996 law to ease the requirement. Benefits still won't be paid beyond an allotted time,
Fact-check: Does Obama's Plan 'Gut Welfare Reform'? - FactCheck.org
Verdict: a mitt romney tv ad claims the obama administration has adopted "a plan to gut welfare reform by dropping work requirements." the plan does neither of those things. work requirements are not simply being "dropped." states may now change the requirements — revising, adding or eliminating them — as part of a federally approved state-specific plan to increase job placement. and it won't "gut" the 1996 law to ease the requirement. benefits still won't be paid beyond an allotted time,
Organisation: FactCheck.org
Author: Eugene Kiely
Date published: 2012-08-09T20:06:17