Welfare-to-work
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Welfare-to-work is a social program of the United States government. The concept is to wean sole parents and the disabled off their reliance on income support and encourage them back into the work force.
To encourage the various states to participate, various federal programs provide assistance and funding for transportation, vocational training, child care, and substance abuse treatment assistance for welfare recipients.
The controversial program has met with mixed results. The program expired on September 30, 2004.
In the U.K., Thatcher and Blair in particular have been keen to use the idea of using welfare benefits as a way of encouraging and arguably forcing people into work. For example, the benefits Blair has established for low income families in the form of tax credits and cheaper childcare has made working a more attractive proposition than going on benefits.
