Sentence examples for limits on assistance from inspiring English sources
His welfare overhaul, emphasizing work but also, for the first time, putting federal time limits on assistance for poor women and their children, outraged many on his party's left.
Congress set a time limit on assistance for refugees as part of a comprehensive welfare law adopted in 1996.
It instituted the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, which placed time limits on welfare assistance and replaced the longstanding Aid to Families with Dependent Children program.
When President Bill Clinton famously declared that the nation was "ending welfare as we know it," joining Congressional Republicans to impose time limits on cash assistance programs, he pledged that child care programs would help ease the transition to the working world.
"Waivers will not be granted to avoid time limits on when assistance may be provided.
It is also money they desperately need to help the families left behind by prosperity and facing federally imposed time limits on cash assistance.
But state emergency officials said that Gov. George E. Pataki would appeal a decision by the Federal Emergency Management Agency that places limits on that assistance.
Wisconsin was a pioneer in welfare reforms adopted by Congress in 1996, imposing work requirements and limits on cash assistance while providing child care, tax credits and other supports for working mothers.
That bill was signed into law on Tuesday, even as state officials were newly carrying out five-year lifetime federal limits on such assistance, which in Michigan averages $415 a month for an eligible family.
Reforms in the mid-1990s imposed time limits on cash assistance for poor single mothers, a change predicated on the assumption that women would trade welfare checks for paychecks.
Leaning on language more sweeping than he typically uses, Mr. Bush said government did the right thing in the 1960's by expanding services to poor Americans and the right thing in the 1990's by putting limits on such assistance.
