After 5 years, welfare recipients are ineligible for cash aid; however, they still qualify for other types of welfare assistance. There are groups of people who are exempt from the 5 year limit, groups of people who are not counted in the tally of people on welfare even though they receive it, and states are allowed to exempt an additional 20% of their recipients, so right there are a lot of people who can legitimately exceed the 5 year limit.
Long term welfare recipient families know how to game the system to stay on welfare, to be classified among the exempted, and pass those skills and information along to their children – and that’s the cycle we need to address and break. Not everyone in persistent poverty gets welfare assistance, though, so we need to create a system that breaks the welfare dependency as well as helps people out of non-welfare dependent persistent poverty.
I know of one woman who has been on welfare for the last 30 years, her 26 year old daughter has been on welfare her entire life, and her 4 year old granddaughter is growing up on welfare and will likely spend most of her life on it, too. There are ways to circumvent the 5 year limit. I personally don’t know those ways, but I do know people who have successfully managed it. I have been giving sandwiches to some of them for the last 10 years – and yes, they probably think they are gaming me, too.
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Long term welfare recipient families know how to game the system to stay on welfare, to be classified among the exempted, and pass those skills and information along to their children – and that’s the cycle we need to address and break. Not everyone in persistent poverty gets welfare assistance, though, so we need to create a system that breaks the welfare dependency as well as helps people out of non-welfare dependent persistent poverty.
I know of one woman who has been on welfare for the last 30 years, her 26 year old daughter has been on welfare her entire life, and her 4 year old granddaughter is growing up on welfare and will likely spend most of her life on it, too. There are ways to circumvent the 5 year limit. I personally don’t know those ways, but I do know people who have successfully managed it. I have been giving sandwiches to some of them for the last 10 years – and yes, they probably think they are gaming me, too.