document: THE US administration has given the go-ahead for pilot plans to reform welfare benefits in Wisconsin and Georgia that could serve as experiments for the broader overhaul of the welfare system promised by President Bill Clinton . The Wisconsin plan would cut off cash payments under the principal welfare programme , known as Aid to Families with Dependent Children , after two years , although it would continue to provide food stamps and health coverage . The pilot scheme will be started in two counties in 1995 . Republican Governor Tommy Thompson has made Wisconsin a pioneer in welfare reform , with experiments such as Schoolfare , which cuts welfare payments to teenage mothers who do not go to school . In Georgia , the state does not plan a time limit on benefits , but wants to reduce welfare payments to able-bodied adults who refuse offers of work and deny increases in payments to families on long-term welfare who have more children . The federal government , which has to grant waivers to states wishing to depart from normal US welfare rules , is also considering proposals from Florida and Vermont for time limits on welfare benefits , and White House officials have said that a two-year limit will be a central feature of Mr Clinton 's own welfare reform plans . The promise to ` end welfare as we know it ' was an important theme in Mr Clinton 's election campaign . Although he named a welfare reform task force in June , the reform has been held up by delays in passing the budget and is now expected to be delayed until the ambitious reform of the healthcare system has passed Congress .
extractive_keyphrases: welfare reform president bill clinton wisconsin georgia food stamps
abstractive_keyphrases: clinton administration welfare plans healthcare reform