By Lisa Aliferis, KQED State of Health/The California Report
If you looked at that headline and thought, “What is the maximum family grant?” you are probably not alone. Twenty years ago this week, in the midst of the Clinton-era welfare reforms, California became one of 16 states to pass a limit on assistance to new children born into families that had been receiving benefits through CalWORKS, the state’s welfare program, in the 10 months before the child was born.
The idea was to prevent people receiving aid from having more children.
That law is still on the books and today, according to a brief from the Western Center on Law and Poverty, 13.4 percent of children in CalWORKs households — that is 143,300 children — are “currently impacted by the (maximum family grant) rule.”
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