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      "title": "Welfare Reauthorization: A Side-By-Side Comparison of Current Law and Pending Welfare Reauthorization Proposals",
      "summary": "The 109th Congress is considering legislation to reauthorize and amend programs that were\ncreated\nor revised in the 1996 welfare reform law. Early in 2005, the Senate Committees on Finance and\nHealth, Education, Labor, and Pensions (HELP) reported their welfare reauthorization legislation\n(respectively,  S. 667  and  S. 525 ). These bills have yet to see floor action\nand remain pending in the Senate. The House passed welfare reauthorization as part of its spending\nbudget reconciliation bill (the House-passed version of  S. 1932 ). The Senate-passed \nspending reconciliation bill does  not  include welfare reauthorization provisions. \n Both the Senate Finance Committee bill and the House reconciliation bill would reauthorize\nthrough FY2010 and revise the block grant of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). \nThey both revise TANF work participation standards aimed to require more families on the welfare\nrolls to work or participate in job preparation activities. The Senate committee bill would allow a\nbroad range of activities engaged in by recipients to count toward meeting these standards, while the\nHouse bill would narrow the focus of activities to work or \"workfare\" outside of a four-month\nperiod. Both the Senate committee and House reconciliation bills also would establish $200 million\nper year in grants to promote \"healthy\" marriages.\n Both the Senate committee and House reconciliation bills would extend and increase funding\nfor mandatory child care, though the size of the funding increase is a major difference between the\ntwo proposals -- $6 billion over five years in the Senate committee bill and $0.5 billion over five\nyears in the House bill. Both would also reauthorize the Child Care and Development Block Grant\n(CCDBG), increasing its authorization to $3.1 billion by FY2010, and would revise CCDBG rules,\nincluding those related to making school-readiness a program goal and increasing the percentage of\nfunds to improve the quality of child care.\n Both the Senate committee and House reconciliation bills would revise the Child Support\nEnforcement program to provide financing options for states to pay more collected child support to\nfamilies on TANF or who have left the rolls. (Generally, federal and state governments keep child\nsupport collected for TANF families as reimbursement for their welfare costs.) The Senate\ncommittee bill would provide partial federal funding for child support passed through to families --\nup to $400 per month for one child and $600 per month for two or more children. The House bill\nwould provide partial federal funding to states that increase the amount of passed-through child\nsupport. The House reconciliation bill also would reduce federal funding to the states to operate\ntheir child support programs. Both Senate committee and House bills would also establish\n\"responsible fatherhood\" programs to fund activities to increase the participation of noncustodial\nparents in their children's lives. The Senate committee bill would provide $50 million per year in\nmandatory funding (and authorize another $26 million per year); the House reconciliation bill would\nauthorize (but not provide funding) for up to $20 million per year. This report will be updated as\nneeded.",
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      "date": "2005-11-21",
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      "title": "Welfare Reauthorization: A Side-By-Side Comparison of Current Law, Senate Committee-Approved and House Budget Reconciliation Bill Provisions",
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