Welfare rolls in Georgia cut by nearly two-thirds since 2006
The number of Georgia families receiving welfare benefits has dropped by more than two-thirds in the past 14 years as the state has applied constant pressure to drive down the the rolls.
Georgia granted benefits through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program, commonly known as welfare, to an average of 10,159 households a month this fiscal year, as of May, according to Georgia’s Division of Family and Children Services statistics. That number is down from an average monthly 33,302 TANF cases in fiscal 2006.
Welfare payments cost the government $35.3 million in 2018, down from more than $55 million a decade earlier, when families, on average, received less.
The number of households receiving TANF benefits has consistently dropped, even through the Great Recession. The agency was not able to provide welfare numbers before 2006.
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