Persuasive Essay
...le parents must participate for at least 20 hours per week the first year, increasing to at least 30 hours per week by FY 2000. Two-parent families must work 35 hours per week by July 1, 1997. Unless a state opts out, non-exempt adult recipients who are not working must participate in community service two months after they start receiving benefits. Single parents with a child under 6 who cannot find child care cannot be penalized for failure to meet the work requirements. States can exempt from the work requirement single parents with children under age one and disregard these individuals in the calculation of participation rates for up to 12 months. Persuasive Essay 3 Failure to participate in work requirements can result in either a reduction or termination of benefits to the family. Also to count towards the work requirements, recipients will be required to participate in unsubsidized or subsidized employment, on-the-job training, work experience, community service, 12 months of vocational training, or they must provide child care services to individuals who are participating in community service. Up to 6 weeks of job search (no more than 4 consecutive weeks) would count toward the work requirement. However, no more than 25 percent of those meeting the participation rates of each state's caseload may count toward the work requirement solely by participating in vocational training or by being a teen parent in secondary school. The teen parent limitation is phased in over several years. Before knowing all of these opportunities that are offered to the participants I really did not feel that the government really did anything major to help families who suffer from low-income and not knowing or experiencing welfare I was too shallow to have an understanding. One thing that some people don’t agree with is the failure of continued service once a participant does successfully complete the program. Once TAN...