House Bill 1352
115th Congress(2017-2018)
Preparing More Welfare Recipients for Work Act
Introduced
Introduced in House on Mar 2, 2017
Origin Chamber
House
Type
Bill
Bill
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Bill Number
1352
Congress
115
Policy Area
Social Welfare
Social Welfare
Primary focus of measure is public assistance and Social Security programs; social services matters, including community service, volunteer, and charitable activities. Measures concerning such health programs as Medicare and Medicaid may fall under Health policy area.
No House votes have been held for this bill.
Summary
Preparing More Welfare Recipients for Work Act
This bill revises mandatory work requirements under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. Specifically, for purposes of counting work activities toward the satisfaction of such requirements, the bill:
- eliminates the distinction between core work activities and other specified work activities related to training and education;
- in general, eliminates separate requirements for two-parent families and other families;
- allows partial credit with respect to families that participate in work activities for fewer hours than required;
- allows states to request approval for an alternative work-participation rate calculation;
- limits, after three months of participation, the extent to which job-search activities shall be counted as work activities;
- modifies requirements for counting secondary-school attendance as work participation;
- removes from the definition of "work activities" the provision of child-care services to an individual who is participating in a community service program; and
- increases, from 12 to 24 months, the maximum period for which vocational educational training counts a work activities.
March 2, 2017
03/15/2017
Referred to the Subcommittee on Human Resources.
03/02/2017
Referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, and in addition to the Committee on Education and the Workforce, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.
03/02/2017
Introduced in House
Public Record
Record Updated
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