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   On 06 Oct 2022, Jeff Thiele said the following...   
      
    JT> Were you asleep during the welfare reform bill(s) passed during the   
    JT> Clinton administration? That's exactly what they said -- able-bodied   
    JT> people need to be seeking or holding jobs in order to qualify for public   
    JT> assistance.   
   Yes of course I do remember that and I remember thinking "good for him"    
   when it was passed.    
      
   oh my, what do we have here? Gasp!   
   Found on the Web at    
   https://thedailyhatch.org/2012/08/06/why-did-obama-but-the-welfare-reform-that-   
   clinton-put-in/   
      
   The Obama Administration issued a new directive stating that the traditional   
   TANF work requirements can be waived or overridden by a legal device called the   
   section 1115 waiver authority under the Social Security law (42 U.S.C. 1315).   
      
   Section 1115 states that the Secretary may waive compliance with any of the   
   requirements of specified parts of various laws. But this is not an open-ended   
   authority: Any provision of law that can be waived under section   
   1115 must be listed in section 1115 itself. The work provisions of the TANF   
   program are contained in section 407 (entitled, appropriately, mandatory work   
   requirements). Critically, this section, as well as most other TANF   
   requirements, are deliberately not listed in section 1115; they are not   
   waiveable.   
      
   In establishing TANF, Congress deliberately exempted or shielded nearly all   
   of the TANF program from the section 1115 waiver authority. They did not want   
   the law to be rewritten at the whim of Health and Human Services (HHS)   
   bureaucrats. Of the roughly 35 sections of the TANF law, only one is listed   
   as waiveable under section 1115. This is section 402.   
      
   Section 402 describes state plans reports that state governments must file to   
   HHS describing the actions they will undertake to comply with the many   
   requirements established in the other sections of the TANF law. The authority   
   to waive section 402 provides the option to waive state reporting requirements   
   only, not to overturn the core requirements of the TANF program contained in   
   the other sections of the TANF law.   
      
   The new Obama dictate asserts that because the work requirements, established   
   in section 407, are mentioned as an item that state governments must report   
   about in section 402, all the work requirements can be waived. This removes   
   the core of the TANF program; TANF becomes a blank slate that HHS bureaucrats   
   and liberal state bureaucrats can rewrite at will.   
      
   Congressional Research Service: There Are No TANF Waivers   
      
   In a December 2001 document, Welfare Reform Waivers and TANF, the non-partisan   
   Congressional Research Service clarified that the limited authority to waive   
   state reporting requirement in section 402 does not grant authority to override   
   work and other major requirements in the other sections of the TANF law   
   (sections that were deliberately not listed under the section   
   1115 waiver authority):   
      
   Technically, there is waiver authority for TANF state plan requirement;   
   however, [the] major TANF requirements are not in state plans. Effectively,   
   there are no TANF waivers.   
      
   Obviously, if the Congress had wanted HHS to be able to waive the TANF work   
   requirements laid out in section 407, it would have listed that section as   
   waiveable under section 1115. It did not do that.   
      
   Define Work   
   In the past, state bureaucrats have attempted to define activities such as   
   hula dancing, attending Weight Watchers, and bed rest as work. These dodges   
   were blocked by the federal work standards. Now that the Obama Administration   
   has abolished those standards, we can expect work in the TANF program to mean   
   anything but work.   
      
   The new welfare dictate issued by the Obama Administration clearly guts the   
   law. The Administration tramples on the actual legislation passed by Congress   
   and seeks to impose its own policy choices pattern that has become all too   
   common in this Administration.   
      
   The result is the end of welfare reform.   
      
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