An act to replace the existing AFDC program with a new Family Support Program which emphasizes work, child support, and need-based family support supplements, to amend Title IV of the Social Security Act to encourage and assist needy children and parents under the new program to obtain the education, training, and employment needed to avoid long-term welfare dependence, and to make other necessary improvements to assure that the new program will be more effective in achieving its objectives
Contributors: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Finance
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
Subjects: Family policy; Law and legislation; Income maintenance programs
Other titles: Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987.; 100th Congress, 1st session, H.R. 1720 in the Senate of the United States.; To replace the existing AFDC program with a new Family Support Program which emphasizes work, child support, and need-based family support supplements, to amend Title IV of the Social Security Act to encourage and assist needy children and parents under the new program to obtain the education, training, and employment needed to avoid long-term welfare dependence, and to make other necessary improvements to assure that the new program will be more effective in achieving its objectives.
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Received December 17 (legislative day, December 15), 1987 and referred to the Committee on Finance.