Welfare Reform
Welfare reform is about independence and dignity.
Welfare reform done properly means preserving resources for the truly needy, safeguarding taxpayer dollars, and encouraging work for able-bodied adults.
Given the billions spent on food stamps alone each year, our current course has only trapped people in government dependence and denied millions the opportunity to pursue the American Dream.
The situation became more dire during the pandemic. With the expansion of food stamps, the U.S. workforce began to shrink even more due to lax or non-existent work requirements for able-bodied adults—a consequence of poor policy choices by the federal government and many states.
This problem isn’t just limited to food stamps. Medicaid, public housing, and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program all need reform, too. And the answer is a universal work requirement that can move 10 million able-bodied adults from welfare to work.
At the same time, integrity must be restored to these programs—anything less would be unsustainable for state budgets and would drown hardworking taxpayers.
A staggering one-fifth of Medicaid spending is “improper,” a result of fraud, abuse, or administrative errors. Adding to the pressure are millions of ineligible enrollees on the program that states cannot currently remove, no thanks to pandemic-era federal “handcuffs.” FGA’s welfare reform solutions are the answer.
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Eligible for Welfare Until Proven Otherwise : How hospital presumptive eligibility pours gasoline on the fire of Medicaid waste, fraud, and abuse
ObamaCare created a new path to waste, fraud, and abuse by expanding presumptive eligibility to a new class of able-bodied adults and forcing states to implement it. As a result, ObamaCare’s “hospital presumptive eligibility” (HPE) policy mandates that states allow hospitals—the largest recipients of Medicaid funding—to determine if individuals are eligible for Medicaid on the […]
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An Unsustainable Path: How ObamaCare's Medicaid Expansion is Causing an Enrollment and Budget Crisis
The costs of Medicaid expansion—both for taxpayers and the most vulnerable—are simply too great to bear. States must reject the false promises and bait offered to get them to expand Medicaid.
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Bait-and-Switch: Idahoans Were Misled on ObamaCare Expansion and Are Getting a Raw Deal
Idaho legislators should withdraw from ObamaCare expansion and throw off the new Medicaid handcuffs.
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Gov. Kristi Noem: Empowering Families and Lifting Kids out of Poverty
South Dakota Governor Kristi Noem is leading a statewide effort to protect children and lift working families out of dependency by requiring parents to meet child support obligations in order to stay eligible for food stamps. Unpaid child support is a big problem nationwide. Absent parents currently owe billions of dollars in child support, which […]
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Our Welfare Reform Experts
Our Welfare Reform Research
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ResearchCongress Should Restore Program Integrity To Food Stamps By Requiring Enrollees To Report Out-Of-State Moves
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One-PagerFive Ways Congress Can Stop Food Stamp Fraud
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ResearchThe Food Stamp Program Encourages Fraud by Not Acknowledging Household Realities
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ResearchThe Biden Administration’s Unlawful Food Stamp Increase Incentivized People to Choose Welfare Over Work
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ResearchFive Ways That Congress Can Put a Stop to Food Stamp Fraud
At FGA, we don’t just talk about changing policy—we make it happen.
By partnering with FGA through a gift, you can create more policy change that returns America to a country where entrepreneurship thrives, personal responsibility is rewarded, and paychecks replace welfare checks.