SOCIAL WELFARE PROBLEM

Social Welfare Problem

Social Welfare Problem

Introduction

Under welfare reform, mothers are anticipated to work and use their earnings to support their children. Fathers also are anticipated to work and assist to their children's support. While most fathers have the ability to assist at least some economic support for their children, fee of normal support mostly counts on the proficiency to sustain steady employment. Like mothers, many fathers of young kids obtaining welfare face barriers to employment. Emerging study about low-income fathers has generated interest in providing training and paid work services to fathers, as well as mothers. The study furthermore has increased interest in establishing more flexible progeny support principles that recognize the restricted ability of poor fathers to maintain work and pay regular support.

Standard procedures of child support, which rely on high-volume computer-driven case processing, often fail to reach poor fathers and sometimes interfere with their ability to maintain work and parent their children. This paper identifies schemes states can use to tailor their benchmark child support practices to fathers with a restricted ability to pay. (Roberts, 1999) They emphasize the importance of encouraging regular support payments whenever possible, even if those payments are small.

Passing Through Support to Welfare Families

When families go on welfare, they should accredit, or turn over, their privileges to progeny support to the state as reimbursement for welfare benefits. (42 U.S.C. §608(a) (3) (1999)) Consequently, child support directions often result in government, not families, keeping child support paid by the father.

If young kids are to advantage from the ongoing support and engagement of both parents, it is significant to develop child support schemes that take into account the limited financial prospects of poor fathers. (Strawn et al, 1999) Because the ability to work and pay support varies even among low income parents, child support program responses should also vary. Very deprived mothers and fathers with multiple barriers to employment will have the most difficulty carrying themselves and their children. Welfare principles needing work and progeny support, without additional supportive services, will not be particularly productive in helping them overcome deep poverty. Other mothers and fathers stay connected to the job market and can get work at entry-level wages, but they will have adversity moving out of poverty. The occupations may be part-time and short-term, the hours may be difficult to organise with progeny care, and earnings may fluctuate. It is for these families that flexible ...