But last autumn Congress revised the welfare law, limiting the number of people who could get such relief to 4, 000 a year.
Also approved by the Senate was a provision to grant Supplemental Security Income to disabled immigrants who resided in the country when the new welfare law was enacted last August.
In 1996, she led opposition to a provision in President Bill Clinton's welfare law that made legal immigrants who were not citizens ineligible for food stamps and other public assistance.
As America comes to terms with the impact of last year's welfare law, which sets time limits so that most welfare recipients must find work within two years, such corporate efforts grow more important.
The new welfare law requires states to move at least 20 percent of people receiving public assistance into jobs -- public or private -- by the end of this year, but is silent on what people should be paid.
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"In every state except Mississippi, the combination of welfare and food stamp benefits is already high enough that someone in workfare working 20 hours a week as required by the welfare law would already be receiving the minimum wage or better, " he said.
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In the Lords (from 2.30pm) questions to ministers range across inequality in income in the UK, access to justice for those who will not be able to receive free legal advice on social welfare law (and this is the latest shot in a guerrilla campaign against changes to legal aid rules which come into force from 1 April) and future railway re-openings.
Now, the ad is particularly outrageous as Governor Romney himself, with 28 other Republican governors, supported policies that would have eliminated the time limits in the welfare reform law and allowed people to stay on welfare forever.
But the truth is that under the 1996 welfare reform law, states and Governors do not need a waiver to increase work for those on welfare.
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Democrats would dust off all of the hysterical statements that they made about the 1996 welfare reform law and turn up the volume.
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Even worse, there is no authority in the welfare reform law for the federal government to issue any such waivers from the work requirements.
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The whole point of the 1996 welfare reform law was to give states broad discretion in revising the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) welfare program.
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If anything, the pressure is to reverse small parts of the 1996 welfare overhaul law (PL 104-193) by, for example, restoring food stamp benefits to the most vulnerable legal immigrants.
At the time, some Republicans claimed the new rules amounted to a "gutting" of work requirements for welfare recipients, which were a central element of the bipartisan welfare reform law signed by President Bill Clinton in 1996.
It would convert Medicaid into a block-grant system, in a fashion similar to that of the spectacularly successful 1996 welfare reform law, giving states the flexibility to fashion programs that fit the needs of their residents.
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Mr Clinton signed America's welfare reform into law, although he regarded it as too harsh, because he knew how popular it was.
Bill Clinton, the detoxifier in chief, denounced Sister Souljah, an extreme rap artist, signed welfare reform into law, balanced the budget and cut 350, 000 people from the ranks of government.
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Under America's 1996 welfare-reform law, push has become shove.
It probably happened with the passage in 1996 of welfare reform, a law that shifted government's mission from providing for people to changing them.
The waiver would also permit states to tighten up on some language in the federal law that allows welfare recipients to claim unpaid internships and other such endeavors as qualifiers for welfare rather that getting actual, paying jobs.
For its principles, the fund drew on tort law, private and government insurance, and welfare, says George Priest, a professor at Yale Law School, but with no consistency and no cap on the amount paid other than Mr Feinberg's sense that Congress did not want a runaway programme.
Most states are seeing the first wave of welfare recipients who have reached the law's five-year time limit.
While proponents say the law will protect the welfare of a woman undergoing a medical procedure, opponents say it will force the closure of North Dakota's only clinic that performs abortions.
When the GOP took control of the House and Senate after the 1994 midterm elections, he was instrumental in the creation of the welfare reform bill eventually signed into law by President Clinton.
Much of his concern was based on the law creating requirements that welfare recipients would not be able to fulfill and, as a result, have its own unintended consequence of causing welfare recipients to lose the aid they depend upon to feed and house their families should it become impossible to comply with the law.
Keith Hylton of Boston University's law school estimates that the welfare-enhancing effect of making negligence more expensive would be the biggest economic benefit of loser-pays.
The 12 judges based their ruling on the principle of salus populi ex supreme lex (the welfare of the people is the supreme law of any land), words perhaps more familiar to European lawyers than Pakistanis.
The law says they must be off welfare within two years, and it restricts their receipt of federal cash to a lifetime limit (regardless of whether they move from one state to another) of five years.
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