ousing for needy families.
             There were several federal rules and regulations that one must meet in order to receive benefits from welfare. Once a person qualified to receive benefits, then a certain amount of money was given to them. The amount of money that a person received was based upon how many children they had, and the standard of living in the area in which they lived (Blank 112).
             Money was not necessarily just handed out, but at the same time it was not very hard to receive welfare benefits. The major problem with welfare was deciding who should and should not receive benefits. "It has been said that approximately only half of all of the people that actually needed help, ever received any" (Blank 77). The government was providing money to people who did not actually need it, and turning down people who did need it. What they were faced with now was coming up with a way to determine who was and was not a worthy candidate for receiving welfare benefits.
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