Social workers told a subcommittee of the House Ways and Means Committee that work requirements in the Temporary Aid for Need Families (TANF) program doesn’t fully capture everything a client is doing to pull themselves out of poverty.
“You can job search for 86 hours in a month, but it doesn’t measure what the customer is achieving,” said Shakirah Francis, a social work supervisor from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. “It’s just a number.”
Francis testified before the Welfare and Family Support subcommittee for the “Welfare Is Broken: Restoring Work Requirements to Life Americans Out of Poverty” hearing on March 29….