21. Press Release: Rural Housing And Welfare Reform In HAC Report HAC's report highlights the intersection of welfare reform and affordablehousing needs in seven rural counties with high rates of welfare use. http://www.ruralhome.org/pubs/pressreleases/2001/welfare.htm

Home About HAC Help for Individuals Loans ... Training Press Room Links NEWS RELEASE Contact: Leslie Strauss 202-842-8600, ext. 141 leslie@ruralhome.org RURAL HOUSING AND WELFARE REFORM EXAMINED IN HOUSING ASSISTANCE COUNCIL REPORT Washington, June 12, 2001 – Welfare recipients in rural areas face different obstacles than those in cities, according to a new report by the Housing Assistance Council. It can be hard to find and maintain jobs because of limited social service infrastructures, lack of public transportation, the predominance of seasonal employment in agriculture and extractive industries, and scarce child care resources. In addition, housing costs and rehabilitation needs can burden many rural welfare recipients entering the workforce. HAC's report highlights the intersection of welfare reform and affordable housing needs in seven rural counties with high rates of welfare use. Case studies of these counties discuss gaps in service provision and housing assistance, and describe collaborative ventures between social service and affordable housing providers. Case studies were conducted in Chicot County, Ark., Colusa County, Calif., Crawford County, Ind., Greene County, N.Y., McKenzie County, N.D., Rutland County, Vt., and Wise County, Va. "Housing is often a family's greatest expense," explained HAC Executive Director Moises Loza. "Housing problems can impact rural welfare clients as they work towards self-sufficiency. Access to affordable housing promotes economic stability, but it can be difficult to coordinate limited housing and social service resources in sparsely settled rural areas."

22. Rural Housing And Welfare Reform;toc Case Studies on Rural housing and welfare reform. © housing AssistanceCouncil, 2001. Permission is granted ONLY to nonprofit community http://www.ruralhome.org/pubs/welfarereform/welfarehsg/toc.htm

Home About HAC Help for Individuals Loans ... Links Case Studies on Rural Housing and Welfare Reform Permission is granted ONLY to nonprofit community-based organizations to reproduce and/or adapt this document, and only for their own use. ISBN 1-58064-114-8 TABLE OF CONTENTS Executive Summary Economy and Employment Transportation Childcare and Healthcare Housing Impacts Collaborative Efforts Introduction Methodology Background Chicot County, Arkansas Local Economy Housing Conditions and Programs TANF and Other Poverty Programs ... Summary of Findings Economy and Employment Transportation Childcare Health Insurance Impact on Housing Collaborative Efforts: Filling the Gaps in a Limited Service Infrastructure Footnotes This report was prepared by Christopher Holden, Theresa Singleton, Leslie R. Strauss, and Ruth Wielgosz of the Housing Assistance Council (HAC). The work that provided the basis for this publication was supported by funding under Cooperative Agreement H-21132 CA with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Ndeye Jackson served as Government Technical Representative. The substance and findings of that work are dedicated to the public. HAC is solely responsible for the accuracy of the statements and interpretations contained in this publication and such interpretations do not necessarily reflect the views of the United States Government. HAC, founded in 1971, is a nonprofit corporation that supports the development of rural low- income housing nationwide. HAC provides technical housing services, loans from revolving funds, housing program and policy assistance, research and demonstration projects, and training and information services.

23. Rental Housing, Homeless, Welfare Reform Links to housing authorities nationwide through the housing Authority Insurance Group forInformation, Policy Analysis Technical Assistance on welfare reform. http://www.ahfc.state.ak.us/Hotlinks/rental-housing.htm

Affordable Housing Resource Center Alaska Coalition on Housing and Homelessness A statewide organization working to develop strategies to alleviate homelessness and to increase the availability of affordable housing in Alaska. Alaska Legal Services A private, nonprofit law firm that provides free civil legal assistance to low-income Alaskans. Alaska Pro Bono Program An allied effort of the Alaska Bar Association and the Alaska Legal Services Corporation, designed to provide volunteer legal help for low-income Alaskans. They teach the Alaska Legal Services Landlord Tenant Clinics. Anchorage Neighborhood Housing Services A nonprofit organization dedicated to revitalizing Anchorage neighborhoods through the design and implementation of community development initiative Association of Alaska Housing Authorities A private, non-profit 501©(3) corporation whose board of directors include the executive directors of Alaska's fourteen regional housing authorities and the executive director of the Alaska Housing Finance Corporation, the state's housing finance agency. FreeAdvice.Com

24. NGA Center For Best Practices The housing needs of lowincome families are growing across the nation. Greaterlabor force participation The Evolving Nature of welfare reform Where We http://www.nga.org/center/topics/1,1188,D_406,00.html

NGA Home Center Home Governors News Room ... Legislative Update Latest Documents Increasing Access to Housing for Low-Income Families The housing needs of low-income families are growing across the nation. Greater labor force participation... The Evolving Nature of Welfare Reform: Where We Stand on the Eve of Reauthorization The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 dramatically transformed the nature... Federal Performance Management Provisions Among Workforce, Education, and Human Service Programs Two matrices provide a concise overview of the varying performance measures and reporting requirements among... Addressing Substance Abuse and Mental Health Problems under Welfare Reform: State Issues and Strategies Since the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996, states... State Welfare Websites Links to TANF, welfare-to-work and welfare-related workforce state sites.... State Outreach and Enrollment Strategies to Improve Low-Income Families' Access to Medicaid States are taking steps to ensure that families leaving welfare keep their Medicaid coverage. This... State Policy Options for Health Care Coverage for Families On, Leaving, or Diverted from Welfare and Other Low-Income Families

25. NGA Center For Best Practices Criminal Justice. welfare reform. Increasing Access to housing for LowIncome FamiliesThe housing needs of low-income families are growing across the nation. http://www.nga.org/center/divisions/1,1188,C_ISSUE_BRIEF^D_2391,00.html

NGA Home Center Home Governors News Room ... Legislative Update Issues Child Welfare Children and Families Criminal Justice Welfare Reform ... Youth Development What's New Workforce Development Policy Forum 2002 The 2002 Workforce Policy Forum provided federal, state, and local policy makers and other stakeholders... A Governor's Guide to Creating a 21st-Century Workforce This report describes state policies and programs that help build the workforce needed for today's... Workforce Investment Act Implementation NGA Center for Best Practices has identified key choices made by 30 more states in... Increasing Access to Housing for Low-Income Families The housing needs of low-income families are growing across the nation. Greater labor force participation... Strengthening Unemployment Compensation With New Resources from Economic Stimulus Legislation This briefing paper describes how the economic stimulus package enacted on March 9, 2002, authorized... All Documents Text Version The Evolving Nature of Welfare Reform: Where We Stand on the Eve of Reauthorization Contact: Susan Golonka Contact: Courtney Smith The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 dramatically transformed the nature of public assistance in the United States, replacing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. This paper seeks to paint a picture of what welfare reform looks like in states today, how goals and strategies have evolved over the five years of implementation, and how states have used TANF's flexibility to help welfare recipients and other low-income families.

26. Welfare Reform Research (WRR) Database: Housing Home Front Implications of welfare reform for housing Policy. Newman, SJ; June1999 Urban Institute. Implications of welfare reform on housing policies. http://www.ssc.wisc.edu/irp/wrr/housing.htm

Welfare Reform Research (WRR) Database Housing WRR Subject Index WRR Subject Descriptions DWD Welfare Reform Home Page IRP Home Page Administration's FY 2001 Proposal to Expand Modestly the Number of Section 8 Housing Vouchers http://www.cbpp.org/3-22-00hous.htm Lubell, J.; Sard, B.; May 2000 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities Discusses the Section 8 Voucher Program federal housing assistance levels direct beneficiaries of housing vouchers and the social benefits of housing vouchers. Can Housing Vouchers Help Poor Children? http://www.brookings.edu/comm/childrensroundtable/issue3/issue3.htm Duncan, G.J.; Ludwig, J.; July 2000 Brookings Institution Examines the results of an experiment designed to greatly improve the neighborhood conditions of children growing up in high- poverty urban neighborhoods. Face of Homelessness http://www.naco.org/pubs/research/issues/homeless.pdf Logan, S.; Oct 1999 National Association of Counties Describes characteristics of the homeless, who is homeless and why. Examines differences between urban and rural homelessness and the impact of welfare reform on homelessness; cites best practices by counties. Federal Housing Assistance and Welfare Reform: Uncharted Territory http://newfederalism.urban.org/html/anf19.html

27. Colorado Welfare Reform Project, Colorado welfare reform Support Project, Domestic Violence, Education.Eligibility, Family Caps, Fathers, Food Stamps/Nutrition. Health/MentalHealth, housing http://carbon.cudenver.edu/public/cwr/

Colorado Welfare Reform Viewed best with a browser capable of displaying frames. Colorado Welfare Reform This is an independent, non-partisan information clearing house for welfare reform in Colorado. The Center for Human Investment Policy, CHIP manages this site. [ more about Colorado Welfare Reform MCH (Maternal and Child Health) Web Ring Local Calendar March ongoing: Tax Commission Regional hearings Talking Tax and Budget Policy National Calendar CLASP Audio Conference: Near-Full Employment: Does it Signal Universal Pre-K? Colorado Parent Information Resource Center (CPIRC) This week: Advocacy, Adolescents, Reading, Emerging Literacy, Multicultural Resources, Parent Provider Communication, Parent Involvement in Education CWR Wants to Know What You Think! Colorado News Child Welfare Grant $$ (Housing, NonProfits), Performance Monitoring/Evaluation, Safety Net Transportation Week's Postings Health, Immigrants NonProfits Tweaking TANF ... Transportation Colorado Legislative News Legislative Calendar 2001 CWR Legislative Index Colorado General Assembly 2001 "Pinkbook" (Directory)

28. Homeless People's Network: Welfare Reform & Housing And Homelessness Newsletter welfare reform housing and Homelessness Newsletter USA IWPR. TomBoland (wgcp@earthlink.net) Mon, 5 Apr 1999 205940 0700 (PDT) http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/archives/Apr99/0027.html

Tom Boland wgcp@earthlink.net Mon, 5 Apr 1999 20:59:40 -0700 (PDT) Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Tom Boland: "California's prisons will be full in 2001 FWD" Previous message: Tom Boland: "Toronto's internal exiles: 1 in 4 homeless are Aboriginal people" FWD Date: Mon, 05 Apr 1999 11:34:41 -0400 To: housingwelfare@lists.cbpp.org lauran@www.iwpr.org http://www.iwpr.org/WRNN10.html The newsletter describes how current housing legislation and TANF policies affect current and former recipients, summarizes research findings on the impact of welfare reform on the housing stability of TANF recipients, and highlights policy and program practices that are occurring across the United States to address problems low-income families face securing and maintaining housing. The paper also includes suggestions about ways to improve welfare reform research studies to better capture the housing experiences of families. If after reading the paper you have suggestions, clarifications, or find information that needs to be corrected please let me know. We often update our past newsletter issues. Thanks again for all of your help and expertise, Laura Nichols, Research Fellow Institute for Women's Policy Research 1400 20th Street NW, Suite 104 Washington, DC 20036 Phone (202) 785-1921 Fax (202) 833-4362 e-mail: lauran@www.iwpr.org

29. Homeless People's Network: Welfare Reform And Housing Programs welfare reform and housing Programs. HC Covington (ach1@sprynet.com)Wed, 24 Dec 1997 102831 0600 http://aspin.asu.edu/hpn/archives/Dec97/0405.html

Welfare Reform and Housing Programs H. C. Covington ach1@sprynet.com Wed, 24 Dec 1997 10:28:31 -0600 Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Tom Boland: "Homelessness/10 Yr. Perspective/NCH Report FWD" Previous message: Bonnie Briggs: "Christmas greetings" http://www.huduser.org/publications/smallgrants/index.html Next message: Tom Boland: "Homelessness/10 Yr. Perspective/NCH Report FWD" Previous message: Bonnie Briggs: "Christmas greetings"

30. NIFL-HOMELESS 2001: [NIFL-HOMELESS:747] Re: Welfare Reform And hn4061@handsnet.org NIFLHOMELESS748 Re housing subsidies ; Previous messagehn4061@handsnet.org NIFL-HOMELESS746 welfare reform and homeless http://www.nifl.gov/nifl-homeless/2001/0001.html

[NIFL-HOMELESS:747] Re: welfare reform and homeless learners From: AReese9230@aol.com Date: Thu Jan 04 2001 - 01:07:20 EST Next message: hn4061@handsnet.org: "[NIFL-HOMELESS:748] Re: housing subsidies" Previous message: hn4061@handsnet.org: "[NIFL-HOMELESS:746] welfare reform and homeless learners" Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] ... listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-homeless@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-homeless@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-homeless@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: AReese9230@aol.com nifl-homeless@literacy.nifl.gov > Subject: [NIFL-HOMELESS:747] Re: welfare reform and homeless learners X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: AOL 4.0 for Windows sub 111 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Status: O Content-Length: 601 Lines: 20 Dear Jocelyn Gottlieb, You Wrote: Have shifts in available funding for literacy and increases in government and foundation support for job training programs influenced your programs in any way? Could you lead me in the right direction in searching for grants and other support to get transitional housing for single homeless women and women exoffenders. I am looking for housing and I would love to build or obtain a commercial building that I could renovate. Any ideas on how to obtain this type of property free? Any info you can give would be good start. Thank you Esther in Virginia Next message: hn4061@handsnet.org: "[NIFL-HOMELESS:748] Re: housing subsidies"

31. NAEH: Housing And Welfare Reform Reauthorization Faring Under welfare reform An Early Look. Princeton, NJ Mathematica Policy Research,Inc. iii. For a full discussion on how inadequate housing can threaten http://www.endhomelessness.org/pol/papers/housingandTANF.htm

National Alliance to End Homelessness Housing Groups' Proposals to Improve TANF Print-ready version (PDF) also available The following is endorsed by the Coalition on Human Needs, Corporation for Supportive Housing, Council of State Community Development Agencies, Enterprise Foundation, Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, McAuley Institute, LISC, National Alliance to End Homelessness, National Association of Housing and Redevelopment Officials, National Community Development Association, National Housing Law Project, National Law Center on Homelessness and Poverty, National League of Cities, National Low Income Housing Coalition, NETWORK, and Volunteers of America. As Congress prepares to reauthorize the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, stable, affordable housing must be a critical focus. The first purpose of TANF is to "provide assistance to needy families so that children may be cared for in their homes or in the homes of relatives," yet the TANF program fails to address the critical housing needs of the most vulnerable families. Research demonstrates that low-income families with access to affordable housing are more likely to successfully transition to improved economic well-being.

32. Welfare Reform Network News, Housing Stability And Homelessness, Volume 2, Issue welfare reform Network News, housing Stability and Homelessness, Volume2, Issue 2. $3.00 H202 welfare reform Network News is a nationally http://iwpr.org/shopsite_sc/store/html/product166.html

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33. Welfare Reform On The Web - Issue 43 - March 2003 We hope you find welfare reform Digest helpful. We have taken the broadest definitionof welfare and included Education, Social housing and some http://www.bl.uk/services/information/sswelfare.html

Home Services Information services Social policy ... site map The Social Policy Information Service (SPIS) Welfare Reform on the Web - Issue 43 - March 2003 The future of the Welfare State is being hotly debated both within the UK and abroad. Social research institutions, think tanks, pressure groups, charities and professional associations have contributed to the debate alongside government opposition politicians and the media. Comment and analysis is found in a wide range of research reports, government consultation and policy papers, academic and trade journals and quality newspapers. Welfare Reform Digest aims to help social policy practitioners and researchers to keep up to date with this flood of literature. We systematically scan the quality press, the British Library's intake of social science books and government publications, and a wide range of trade and academic journals to identify relevant material. We then produce full bibliographic references with detailed abstracts to give both the flavour of the cut and thrust of the debate and an overview of the research literature. The first, pilot, issue covered material scanned from mid June to mid July 1998. The second issue comprised material scanned in March 1999, and new data is now added on a monthly basis.

34. New HAC Study On Rural Housing And Welfare Reform National housing Law Project housing Law Bulletin, New HAC Study onRural housing and welfare reform. The housing Assistance Council http://www.nhlp.org/html/hlb/1297/1297hacreport.htm

What’s New? Housing Program Information: Public Housing Section 8 Section 8 Homeownership HUD Rental Housing ... Search National Housing Law Project Housing Law Bulletin New HAC Study on Rural Housing and Welfare Reform The Housing Assistance Council (HAC) has just released a 70-page study finding that, although most rural families who receive welfare assistance also earn income, about two-thirds of them live below the poverty level and more than half also had major housing problems. "Welfare reform will have a major impact in rural communities," says HAC Executive Director Moises Loza, "but it’s hard to believe it will be a positive impact." Access to well paying jobs, childcare and transportation is even more difficult in rural areas than in urban communities. In many cases, rural families are already earning as much as they can in their communities. The prospect of welfare cuts is therefore a bleak prospect for families already struggling to meet their shelter costs and provide other necessities. Unless families can replace welfare assistance with wages, they will have less money to pay for housing when their welfare benefits run out. Key findings of the HAC report show that the housing situation for low-income rural families is already critical.

35. Housing Provisions In Senate Welfare Reform Proposal housing Provisions in Senate welfare reform Proposal. The various welfare reform measureshave obvious implications for the federal lowincome housing programs. http://www.nhlp.org/html/hlb/895/895welfare.htm

What’s New? Housing Program Information: Public Housing Section 8 Section 8 Homeownership HUD Rental Housing ... Search National Housing Law Project Housing Law Bulletin Housing Provisions in Senate Welfare Reform Proposal Despite a groundswell of support on both sides of the aisle for a major overhaul of welfare, Senate Majority Leader Robert Dole (R-KS) withdrew his proposal from Senate consideration after debate commenced in early August and consensus could be not immediately reached before the recess. In the face of a more restrictive House-passed measure, the Senate leadership had hoped to push through its bill before the August recess. The Dole measure is characterized by turning welfare programs over to the states in block grants, or lump-sum payments, requiring 50 percent of all adult recipients to go to work by the year 2000, and limiting recipients' benefits to a maximum of five years over a lifetime. Senator Phil Gramm (R-TX) is promoting his own proposal which would fold virtually every social welfare measure into a single block grant and cut off payments to unwed teenage mothers, to noncitizens and to welfare mothers who have additional children while receiving benefits. An alternative proposal, introduced by Sen. Minority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD), would also impose work requirements and time limits on benefits although it would provide more funding to states to assist welfare recipients in moving into the workplace.

36. Welfare, Children, & Families the threecity ethnography. housing Assistance, housing Costs, andWelfare reform July 2002 — Policy Brief 02-4 PDF Format . http://www.jhu.edu/~welfare/

Science 299 (7 March 2003): 1548-1552. Not By Jobs Alone The Correlates and Consequences of Welfare Exit and Entry Robert Moffitt and Katie Winder Working Paper 03-01 PDF Format View the papers from the August 17, 2002 American Sociological Association session on the three-city ethnography. Housing Assistance, Housing Costs, and Welfare Reform PDF Format A Closer Look at Changes in Children's Living Arrangements in Low-Income Families PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare PDF Format The Characteristics of Families Remaining on Welfare Working Paper 02-02 PDF Format Welfare Reform: What About the Children? PDF Format Child Care in the Era of Welfare Reform: Quality, Choices, and Preferences PDF Format You are visitor number to this page since May 1, 2001.

37. The Johns Hopkins Gazette June 7, 1999 28, NO. 37. Q A Sandra Newman on welfare reform and housing. Newman recentlytalked about the relationship between welfare reform and housing policy. http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/1999/jun0799/07newman.html

June 7, 1999 VOL. 28, NO. 37 Sandra J. Newman is the interim director of the Institute for Policy Studies , a professor in the master's program in policy studies and a researcher who focuses on housing assistance policy and the housing needs of the poor, the homeless, the elderly and persons with disabilities. She is the editor of a new book that examines the relationship between housing policy and welfare reform. The Home Front: Implications of Welfare Reform for Housing Policy has just been published by the Urban Institute Press. Newman recently talked about the relationship between welfare reform and housing policy. What's the impact you hope the book will have? I'd be gratified if the book alerted people to the connections between welfare reform and housing and raised the level of information, discussion and debate about this subject. The book implicitly asks a central question: How do people react to government housing subsidies? Does a guarantee of affordable and decent housing serve as a springboard to help get people into the economic mainstream, or does it serve as a cushion so they are less motivated to comply with welfare reform because their housing is secure? If it's the former, we need to think about whether to expand housing assistance. If it's the latter, then at a minimum we need to reconsider the current design of multibillion-dollar housing programs. That question has never been satisfactorily answered by policy-makers?

38. Affordable Housing May Join Welfare Reform Affordable housing may join welfare reform As the consequences of 1996's welfarereform continue to be evaluated, many analysts have found that while onetime http://salt.claretianpubs.org/washweek/2002/04/is0204a.html

Welcome to Claretian Publications! In session April 2002 Affordable housing may join welfare reform Campaign finance reform finally becomes law, faces new challenge Farm bill hits new roadblocks, finds new scandal On the slippery slope to "Fast Track" FTAA ... U.S. could be doing more for world's poor, say bishops Affordable housing may join welfare reform As the consequences of 1996's welfare reform continue to be evaluated, many analysts have found that while one-time welfare families may have been able to increase their incomes, they often remain unable to afford basic necessities. Finding affordable housing, for example, remains a major hurdle. As a result, a broad coalition of not-for-profit groups, including Catholic Charities USA, is lobbying Congress for a national housing trust fund. Over 150 state and municipal governments already employ such a fund, aimed at preserving or rehabilitating existing affordable housing or developing new sites for low-income housing. Currently the trust fund legislation, H.R. 2349, is under consideration in the House of Representatives with 147 cosponsors from both sides of the aisle. A similar bill in the Senate, S. 1248, has 19 cosponsors. The legislation would provide permanent, dedicated funding for the trust fund, drawing from surplus budget allocations to the Federal Housing Authority (FHA) and Ginnie Mae , a government program that assists low-income families in purchasing a home. Other sources of funding are being investigated.

39. HOMELESS: Apr98 : Re: Welfare Reform Effects It is entitled welfare reform Impacts on the Public housing Program and it willbe available for downloading or ordering from the HUD USER site at http//www http://csf.colorado.edu/mail/homeless/apr98/0007.html

Re: Welfare Reform Effects Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ] Next message: Chuck Currie: "Shelter Reconfiguration Plan" Previous message: MAllen47: "Re: Street Lawyer" Wed, 01 Apr 98 11:48:03 EST Housing housing@smtpinet.aspensys.com There is a new report due out from HUD in the next week or two which may be of interest. It is entitled "Welfare Reform: Impacts on the Public Housing Program" and it will be available for downloading or ordering from the HUD USER site at http://www.huduser.org Subject: Welfare Reform Effects Author: homeless@csf.colorado.edu at SMTPINET Date: 3/31/98 8:56 PM Quick question: Does anyone know of any studies or references showing how welfare reform has impacted homeless populations (or speculating on how it may effect homeless populations)? Thanks! Mike Strzelecki michael.strzelecki@ferc.fed.us Next message: Chuck Currie: "Shelter Reconfiguration Plan" Previous message: MAllen47: "Re: Street Lawyer"

40. BBC News | BUSINESS | Welfare Reform: The Tasks Ahead giving people on benefit a fixed sum to help with their housing costs (with But thegovernment also faces a broader choice on welfare reform, relating both its http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_1373000/1373766.stm

low graphics version feedback help You are in: Business Front Page World UK ... AudioVideo Monday, 11 June, 2001, 11:20 GMT 12:20 UK Welfare reform: The tasks ahead Tony Blair has said that completing welfare reform is one of the key tasks for his second term of government. BBC News Online's Steve Schifferes looks at the difficult choices the government could face. As he arrived at Number 10 Downing Street after his historic second-term victory, the Prime Minister made it clear that he was determined to press on with the reform of the welfare system. We are increasingly looking at tightening up conditionality, so that people get their rights, but there is a tighter regime to make sure people can and actually do help themselves Alistair Darling, Minister for Work and Pensions "We need to separate very clearly those who cannot work, who need security and protection, and those who can work but at present don't, who we must try to help off a life on benefit and into productive work," Mr Blair said. The drive to extend welfare reform has been reinforced by the restructuring of government departments, with the Department of Social Security combined with the former Employment Department in a new Ministry for Work and Pensions.

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