Question

Define the Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996

Answer 1

Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act was a welfare plan that change the nation welfare system which reduce the length of welfare spells and simultaneously preserving the function of welfare as a safety ground for families experiencing  financial problems and it rescinded the eligibility of legal immigrants for food stamp assistance and Supplemental Security Income. Personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996 grant states greater latitude in administering social welfare programs, and implemented new requirements on welfare recipients, including a five-year lifetime limit on benefits.

Answer 2

Answer:

Bipartisan welfare reform plan

Explanation:

The personal responsibility and work opportunity reconciliation act of 1996 is an act that was signed into law by President Clinton that ensured that a time limited welfare/assistance is given for work therefore changing the nations standing welfare plans. and it also gave states the ability to implement welfare packages to workers.

This act was badly flt by single mothers who were receiving welfare packages which was wasn't corresponding to the amount of work that they put in and this act increased the rate of homelessness and poverty because the states had the power in this act to even eliminate Welfare packages been given before the Act was signed into law

So i would say it was a bad Act .