Issue Position: Welfare

Issue Position

The original purpose of welfare was to help those that could not help themselves. Now it is promoted even for healthy adults. The passage and re-authorization of Medicare Expansion raised the percentage of Montana's on welfare to 25%; this during the best economy in decades. The "work requirements" are a farce. If a recipient makes over $35K he loses all benefits so the trend is to not seek training, accept promotions, or apply for a higher paying job. Welfare must be retooled to stop healthy/capable people from getting on welfare and to mandate the able bodied get off the dole as soon as possible. To economically trap people in multi-generational welfare is cruel.

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