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1996 Social Services Stories

• 12/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Institute official says local welfare agencies are unprepared for welfare cuts.
• 12/ 3/1996: Radio Story - Local official says counties can delay weflare cuts.
• 12/ 3/1996: Radio Story - There could be a way out of the food stamp cuts for some Missouri counties but local policy-makers may not know it
• 10/15/1996: Radio Story - Background on the ballot proposal to create an Aging Department.
• 10/ 9/1996: Newspaper Story - Background on Aging Department issue on the November ballot.
• 9/27/1996: Radio Story - Some programs will be cut when the federal welfare reform law takes effect next week.
• 9/27/1996: Radio Story - Missouri is ahead of the federal government at getting people off the dole and putting them to work.
• 9/26/1996: Missouri welfare recipients will face cuts starting Oct. 1.
• 9/24/1996: Radio Story - Homless shelters are gearing up for the most drastic welfare cuts in six decades to take effect.
• 9/24/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's Social Services Department says they do not know what Welfare Reform will do to Missouri.
• 9/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Senator Jim Mathewson's Welfare to Work program gets people back to work and makes sure they don't abuse state assistance.
• 9/ 5/1996: Radio Story - Missouri's Welfare to Work program takes 24-hundred people off food stamps and into the work force.
• 8/29/1996: Illegal immigrant welfare ban not planned for Missouri.
• 8/27/1996: Newspaper Story - Missouri has a year to implement federal welfare reform.
• 5/14/1996: A welfare bill to terminate welfare is declared officially dead.
• 5/ 1/1996: Senate votes to end all major welfare programs in the next few years.
• 3/26/1996: Welfare organization opposes governor's Aging Department plan.
• 3/ 5/1996: House Budget Committee passes $600,000 appropriation for Ryan White program. The remaining funds rely on federal money.
• 2/ 6/1996: House approves creating Department of Aging
• 1/17/1996: Experts agree with governor that welfare cases are going down in Missouri.
• 1/ 4/1996: The Senate's president pro tem opens the session hitting welfare reform hard
• 1/ 4/1996: Preview of the major issues that have emerged for the 1996 legislative session.
• 1/ 3/1996: Senate leader proposes welfare cuts for those who don't work.