CPR

Center for Parental Responsibility

P.O. Box 130776           St. Paul, MN 55113       Telephone: 651/490-9277

Website: cpr-mn.org        Email: info@cpr-mn.org

           February 16, 2004

Legislative Education Notice (7th in SERIES)

Dear  ______________________________________                                                       RE: BILL # HF 1031/SF 974

Nonpartisan Welfare Reform

 

Doe$n’t this grab your attention in fi$cally troubled times?

 

Title IV-D is the ONLY Welfare Program With NO Eligibility Standards

 

Current Minnesota IV-D welfare law enlists and encourages self-sufficient citizens

(even the affluent and those in no jeopardy of needing government support)

who are not in need, and encourages them to become dependent on the government and receive taxpayer subsidized welfare services

for up to 20 years!

 

 

Real–life Practical Application: A former TANF parent in “need” loses child care assistance benefits and is forced back on IV-A welfare benefits; while at the same time we provide IV-D welfare services to a parent earning $150,000 a year and allow them to continue IV-D welfare services* for 20 years, because IV-D welfare services to the affluent remain untouched? Most legislators, no matter what their party affiliation, find this absurd.

 

Why are we

giving welfare to the rich

and depriving the poor?

 

Current policy defies common sense, and contradicts the American way.

 

   What’s wrong with this picture? 

Who has the courage to think outside the box?   →→

 

 

* IMPORTANT CLARIFICATION: IV-D Welfare is NOT about child support guidelines legislation – IV-D Welfare is a distinctly separate issue that must be addressed independently to preserve welfare for the needy.

 

Who can make a difference?

 

Everyone Working Together: Citizens – Legislators – the Governor

 

Minnesota citizens “expect the excitement of new ideas that advance the common good.”

 

In the February 5, 2004 State-of-the-State Address, Governor Pawlenty “declared that an eagerness to try new ideas and methods is crucial … ‘the core of the Minnesota spirit’ is the state’s willingness to be an innovator, reformer and risk-taker.”

 

“It’s a chance for state government to demonstrate that it is bold and creative enough to find a unique Minnesota solution to a widely shared, vexing problem.”

 

Source: Minneapolis Star Tribune, Friday February 6, 2004, p. A16

 

 

 

 

CREATIVE  SOLUTION  PREVIOUSLY IGNORED:

 

IV-D Welfare Services provided to the “rich” must no longer be untouchable!

 

If the working people must lose services,

so must the affluent.

 

Eliminate IV-D Welfare Services to the Rich!

 

We must differentiate between PRIVATE interest and PUBLIC interest

 

Most Legislators say it is a complete surprise that

we are providing IV-D welfare services to the rich!

 

Please support non-partisan bill HF1031/SF974. I suggest you contact CPR for a simple presentation outlining all supporting research that allows the MN legislators to stop services to the non-needy to redistribute the money to protect needy, poor, and vulnerable families.

 

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Address:___________________________________   City: __________________  State: MN  Zip: ___________

 

Phone Number: ____________________________    Email: ____________________________

 

From A Constituent and/or Interested Citizen Involved in Community Solutions