A bill 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. House. Committee on Ways and Means; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Education and Labor; United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce
Publisher: U.S. G.P.O.
Published: 1987
Place of publication: Washington, D.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
Subjects: Family policy; Law and legislation; Income maintenance programs
Other titles: Family Welfare Reform Act of 1987.; 100th Congress, 1st session, H.R. 1720 (report no. 100-159, parts I, II, and III) in the House of Representatives.; 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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Introduced March 19, 1987 and referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, the Committee on Education and Labor, and the Committee on Energy and Commerce; reported from the Committee on Ways and Means with an amendment June 17, 1987; reported from the Committee on Education and Labor with amendments August 7, 1987; reported from the Committee on Energy and Commerce with an amendment September 15, 1987.

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