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Welfare Reform Welfare reform has been needed for years. The old entitlement programs have kept welfare recipients on welfare for generation after generation. The families were kept in poverty with little hope of ever getting out of the system. Under the entitlement programs, families were penalized for trying to work. It held them into the system because they knew they would lose all benefits if they started a job. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity …

…to the federal SSI program. This is the only solution that has worked for several of the clients that have used their lifetime benefits. Maybe if we start working with the next generation before they become welfare clients, we can stop the cycle of generation after generation welfare clients. The welfare reform laws are not perfect, but it is a start. Maybe some day we will see an end to welfare as we know it.