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Leaving Welfare: Independence or Continued Vulnerability?
Author(s) -
LITT JACQUELYN,
GADDIS BARBARA J.,
FLETCHER CYNTHIA NEEDLES,
WINTER MARY
Publication year - 2000
Publication title -
journal of consumer affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.582
H-Index - 62
eISSN - 1745-6606
pISSN - 0022-0078
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-6606.2000.tb00085.x
Subject(s) - welfare , vulnerability (computing) , safety net , cash , confusion , survey of income and program participation , independence (probability theory) , welfare reform , economics , demographic economics , public economics , actuarial science , business , labour economics , psychology , finance , political science , statistics , computer security , mathematics , psychoanalysis , law , market economy , computer science
Data from two semi‐structured interviews gathered approximately six months apart from seven women who were receiving cash welfare benefits at the time of the first interview and were not receiving benefits at the second interview were used to analyze the experiences of leaving welfare. Emergent themes about the post‐welfare experience are: (1) the low wages and lack of advancement opportunities in jobs, (2) confusion related to program administration, (3) the continued reliance on income support programs and kin, and (4) the banking of cash benefits under the five‐year time limit as a new safety net.