January 28, 2008
New Rule for Family-Assistance Program Could Help Some College Students
A new federal rule will allow college students who receive welfare payments to count a year's worth of classes toward the program's work requirements, and the time they spend doing homework will no longer have to be supervised to count as work as well, according to news reports.
Those provisions are part of a final rule for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, which is scheduled to be published in the Federal
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