Welfare Rolls Dipped In 2020 Despite Economic Upheaval

The work requirements were part of dramatic state-to-state variations in the way the welfare program, known by the acronym TANF, responded to the pandemic, according to federal caseload figures and other data analyzed by The Washington Post. In all but three of the 13 states that continued their work rules, scattered across the South, the Midwest and the West, the…