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...June, when the 13-year-old moved into the Baird Center in Plymouth, the state welfare office told Crosby she was no longer eligible for Aid for Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) because she did not have a dependent child living at home...
Without the AFDC payment, Crosby says, she would not be able to see her son or participate in his care--taxis are too expensive and trains and buses are often not wheelchair-accessible. Buses with broken wheelchair lifts have stranded her in the street many times, she says...
According to Joshua D. Greenberg, director of the Family Advocacy Program at Boston Medical Center and a Project HEALTH mentor, not only is Crosby's intervention in her son's care crucial to his improvement, but she is still eligible for AFDC because she maintains control of decisions regarding her son's treatment and education...
...Some of their ideas--like David Ellwood's two-year limit on AFDC benefits--can get co-opted out of context, while their overall vision--like Ellwood's desire to support work and parenting and 'make work pay'--can get ignored," she continued...
...broadcast address to Governors, he announced that he was prepared unilaterally to impose a two-year limit on welfare recipients. The promise sounded a lot tougher than it probably was. Administration aides hastened to add that while recalcitrant adults might lose Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) benefits after two years, their children would probably keep theirs. Current law already has similar (if laxly enforced) work requirements, and many states, operating under waivers granted by the Administration, have even stiffer ones...