2018 State Platform

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Health and Human Services
Welfare Reform
2018 State Party Platform

Welfare reform should encourage partnerships with faith-based institutions, community, and business organizations to assist individuals in need. We encourage welfare reform in the following areas:
1. Denying benefits to individuals who cannot prove citizenship.
2. Reforming welfare programs to require recipients to work, learn, and train.
3. Reforming welfare programs to require recipients to remain substance-abuse free in exchange for temporary benefits not exceeding two years.
4. Requiring all welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing in order to receive benefits.
5. Requiring that money provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) be used only for nutritious foods consistent with those included under the WIC program, and be released only with a photo ID of 797 the approved user.
6. Implementing a non-monetary-based assistance program for providing supplemental food benefits.
7. Removing prisoners from welfare rolls.