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Aid to Families with Dependent Children

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Aid to Families with Dependent Children
A former social program in the United States that provided financial aid to low-income persons with children or other dependents. Aid to Families with Dependent Children is what most people in the U.S. called "welfare." Critics claimed the system was abused easily and created a culture of dependency. Proponents argued the program assisted the people who needed it most. It was replaced by Temporary Aid to Needy Families in 1996. See also: Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act.
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States strongly believe that returning to the payment error rate focus that characterized the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children program is misguided and will ultimately drive states to reallocate diminishing block grant funding now spent on promoting self-sufficiency and replace it with a paperwork-laden, process-focused eligibility program.
TANF improper payment audits by Goolsby, Larry / Policy & Practice
In just the last ten years, we have seen means-tested transfer programs--programs for which some test of resources is required for recipients--such as Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), replaced by Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF).
Means-Tested Transfer Programs in the United States by NBER Reporter
While some would say that the replacement of the old Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was necessary to end welfare dependency, others argue that TANF is an overly coercive measure that will only exacerbate social problems such as child poverty and homelessness.
Alvin L. Schorr, Welfare Reform: Failures and Remedies by Journal of Sociology & Social Welfare
 
 
 
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