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Welfare Reform:
County Goes First
Beverly Leathers said, “It’s exciting, in a way, to be on the cutting edge."
Mrs. Leathers, as director of county social services, learned last Wednesday that Rappahannock will be one of the first counties to implement the state’s new welfare reform policies. The Rappahannock-Rapidan Planning District (PD9), which includes Rappahannock, Culpeper, Fauquier, Madison and Orange counties, was selected by the state as the location where the program will start July 1, if Virginia gets a waiver from the federal government to implement its ambitious welfare reform proposal.
Throughout the state certain policies are to be changed starting July 1. Teen-aged mothers cannot qualify for Aid to Families with Dependent Children unless they are living at home and attending school. Mothers requesting assistance will be required to name the fathers of their children so the state can try to get support from the fathers, and there will be no additional funds for additional children who are bom while their mothers are on welfare.
In PD9, in addition, AFDC recipients will have 90 days to find a job or they will be assigned to community service. They will only be eligible for welfare for two years.
Mrs. Leathers said she had not received any direction from the state in how to implement any of these changes. She said she expects to be involved in a teleconference next weekend with directors of the five counties in the
See Welfare, Page A-8
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