AUGUSTA — Republican Gov. Paul LePage announced Friday that he will seek changes to the state’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program in order to avoid millions of dollars in federal penalties that he said result from a welfare system that’s too generous. Democrats said the problems in the TANF program are not new and […]
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LePage proposes welfare reform bills
AUGUSTA — Gov. Paul LePage announced plans Tuesday to introduce three welfare reform bills for the next legislative session, which begins in January. Among the proposed legislation will be two welfare reform bills sponsored by House Republican Leader Ken Fredette of Newport. Those bills were rejected by the Democrat-controlled Legislative Council, but will move toward […]
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Group behind welfare study no liberal lot
We’ve all heard it before. Maine’s welfare benefits are so over-the-top generous that the needy are coming here from around the country to take advantage of our largess. Except, apparently, they aren’t that high. In fact, according a story that appeared on the front page of Sunday’s Sun Journal, in a recent study comparing the […]
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M. Larson: The majority need the help
I listened with astonishment to the MPBN program, “Maine Calling,” recently as Rep. Ken Fredette, the minority leader in the Maine House of Representatives, spoke of seeing people in a grocery store who are “able-bodied” individuals with carts full of “name brand” items who he believes are abusing the welfare system, specifically TANF (Temporary Assistance […]