Calwork’s To Be Cut And Lose Thousands Jobs

Calwork’s is currently on the chopping blocks and is set to be cut this year. This will make California the only state that does not have a welfare to work program. There are currently 1.4 million people on the Calwork’s program , two thirds of those people are children. The elimination of this program could cost mothers to lose or quit there jobs due to the loss of child care subsidies and be forced to leave children home alone. This could also cause families to live in shelters that will no longer be able to afford rent.

The maximum grant that two children and a mother can receive in Sacramento is currently $661. This is already less than it was in 1988.

Effective in July adults that are showing no sings of improving or the initiative will be dropped from the program in three months. Also to the parents that do not comply with the programs rules there children’s grants will be cut 25 percent after six months and 50 percent after nine months.

The elimination of Calwork’s would save the states budget 1.6 billion dollars that makes up roughly 2.4 percent of the states budget which is already lower than the 3 percent that it was in 1999. This will shift as much as 1 billion in costs to the local counties which are required by law to provide assistance to low income families. The elimination of Calwork’s is estimated to cost roughly 14,000 county employees who administer Calworks to loose there jobs and around 90,000 Calwork’s clients to loose there jobs.

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