Income Support Policies
Income Support Policies
OCT 19, 2012
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Income Support Policies
Today too many hardworking Americans are not making enough money to get by
and are suffering drastically to make an honest living. Do to the collapse of the economy
millions of people have lost their homes, jobs, and even their retirement savings. Many
Americans are working low-wage jobs paying minimum wage and are living way below
the poverty line. With the cost of living going up and minimum wage at a stand still, many
have resorted to government aid such as income support. “Income support is extra money
for those with a low income or none at all, who are working less than a certain amount of
hours a week and have not signed on as unemployment” (webstersdictionary.com, 2008).
Programs such as “Temporary Assistance For Needy Families” (TANF), “Supplemental
Security Income” (SSI), and “Social Security” are benefits that provide income to those in
need in order to maintain a moral and healthy life style.
“Temporary Assistance For Needy Families is the means-tested federal income
program for dependent children under 18 and their adult caretakers” (Jimenez 2010, p.36).
The goal of this program is to provide temporary financial aid while aiming to slowly cycle
people off, primarily through employment and a time restriction on usage of the program.
The federal government designed the (TANF) program to have basic requirements,
guidelines, as well as a time limit, and left each state responsible in determining eligibility.
(TANF) is funded by block grants that are federally awarded to each state in order to have
a greater flexibility in deciding how to best spend funds, but must stay within various
INCOME SUPPORT
OCT 19, 2012
INCOME SUPPORT 2
Income Support Policies
Today too many hardworking Americans are not making enough money to get by
and are suffering drastically to make an honest living. Do to the collapse of the economy
millions of people have lost their homes, jobs, and even their retirement savings. Many
Americans are working low-wage jobs paying minimum wage and are living way below
the poverty line. With the cost of living going up and minimum wage at a stand still, many
have resorted to government aid such as income support. “Income support is extra money
for those with a low income or none at all, who are working less than a certain amount of
hours a week and have not signed on as unemployment” (webstersdictionary.com, 2008).
Programs such as “Temporary Assistance For Needy Families” (TANF), “Supplemental
Security Income” (SSI), and “Social Security” are benefits that provide income to those in
need in order to maintain a moral and healthy life style.
“Temporary Assistance For Needy Families is the means-tested federal income
program for dependent children under 18 and their adult caretakers” (Jimenez 2010, p.36).
The goal of this program is to provide temporary financial aid while aiming to slowly cycle
people off, primarily through employment and a time restriction on usage of the program.
The federal government designed the (TANF) program to have basic requirements,
guidelines, as well as a time limit, and left each state responsible in determining eligibility.
(TANF) is funded by block grants that are federally awarded to each state in order to have
a greater flexibility in deciding how to best spend funds, but must stay within various
INCOME SUPPORT
References: Jimenez J. (2010) Social policy and social change: Toward the creation of social and economic justice, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publishing http://www.studentnewsdaily.com http://www.webstersdictionary.com