The social welfare policy the aid to dependent children is a policy that is relevant to the social work field. This was a federal assistance program and it was in effect from 1935 to 1996. The program was created by the Social Security Act and administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services. The aid to dependent children policy provided financial assistance to children whose families had low or no income. This is relevant to social work practice because the social work profession’s deepest are concerned with poverty, from the time of the Elizabethan Poor Laws. This set of laws was the “poor laws” which gave the local government the power to raise taxes as needed and use the funds to build and maintain almshouses, to
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At first, it functioned mainly to provide federal grants to help the states maintain their mothers ' aid laws which had been passed in forty states between 1910 and 1920. It is show through studies that “With the federal government providing one-third of costs, the program offered aid to poor parents, assumed at that time to be always women caring for children alone” (Levy,2010). It favored people who had children living in a low income setting but only to a certain extent. The reason for the aid of dependent children is to help the low income families in need of support their child or children. The aid helps the families being able to support the children until the parents are on their feet and able to support them without help from the government. Although the government makes certain rules and regulations to be able to get aid from them, it can be hard to receive this aid and sometime people are turned down. The government claims they have a “well” enough income to be able to support their children. The groups the act does not favor is included once the parent has made a certain amount of money you were cut off of the aid and known as having enough money to be able to support the …show more content…
Studies show that “ADC dispensed scant relief to poor single mothers. The federal government authorized case workers, supervisors, and administrators with discretion to determine who received aid and how much. ADC was primarily created for white single mothers who were expected not to work” (Levy,2010). Black mothers who had always been in the labor power were not considered eligible to receive benefits. Also shown that “The words ‘families with’ were added to the name in 1962, partly due to concern that the program 's rules discouraged marriage” (Windson,2012). The Civil Rights Movement and the efforts of the National Welfare Rights Organization in the 1960s expanded the choice of welfare rights to include black women. The welfare moves a racial demographics changed tremendously. The majority of welfare recipients still remained white and blackest women recipients continued to work. Levy Shows that “Starting in 1962, the Department of Health and Human Services allowed state-specific exemptions as long as the change was "in the spirit of AFDC" in order to allow some experimentation” (Levy,2010). Aid to Families with Dependent Children worked much like a private charity with its case workers given willpower to investigate clients. Article’s show that “Starting in the mid-1960s the National Welfare Rights Organization, built primarily by
At first, it functioned mainly to provide federal grants to help the states maintain their mothers ' aid laws which had been passed in forty states between 1910 and 1920. It is show through studies that “With the federal government providing one-third of costs, the program offered aid to poor parents, assumed at that time to be always women caring for children alone” (Levy,2010). It favored people who had children living in a low income setting but only to a certain extent. The reason for the aid of dependent children is to help the low income families in need of support their child or children. The aid helps the families being able to support the children until the parents are on their feet and able to support them without help from the government. Although the government makes certain rules and regulations to be able to get aid from them, it can be hard to receive this aid and sometime people are turned down. The government claims they have a “well” enough income to be able to support their children. The groups the act does not favor is included once the parent has made a certain amount of money you were cut off of the aid and known as having enough money to be able to support the …show more content…
Studies show that “ADC dispensed scant relief to poor single mothers. The federal government authorized case workers, supervisors, and administrators with discretion to determine who received aid and how much. ADC was primarily created for white single mothers who were expected not to work” (Levy,2010). Black mothers who had always been in the labor power were not considered eligible to receive benefits. Also shown that “The words ‘families with’ were added to the name in 1962, partly due to concern that the program 's rules discouraged marriage” (Windson,2012). The Civil Rights Movement and the efforts of the National Welfare Rights Organization in the 1960s expanded the choice of welfare rights to include black women. The welfare moves a racial demographics changed tremendously. The majority of welfare recipients still remained white and blackest women recipients continued to work. Levy Shows that “Starting in 1962, the Department of Health and Human Services allowed state-specific exemptions as long as the change was "in the spirit of AFDC" in order to allow some experimentation” (Levy,2010). Aid to Families with Dependent Children worked much like a private charity with its case workers given willpower to investigate clients. Article’s show that “Starting in the mid-1960s the National Welfare Rights Organization, built primarily by