Health and Human Services - Government-funded Health Programs
146. Welfare Reform
We support the abolition of all federal welfare programs, as they are not an appropriate role of the federal government. Until such time, welfare reform should encourage partnerships with faith-based institutions, community, and business organizations to assist individuals in need. We encourage welfare reform in the following areas:
a. Denying benefits to individuals who cannot prove citizenship.
b. Reforming welfare programs to require recipients to work, learn, and train to move toward self-sufficiency.
c. Reforming welfare programs to require recipients to remain substance-abuse free in exchange for temporary benefits not exceeding two years.
d. Requiring all welfare recipients to submit to random drug testing in order to receive benefits.
e. Requiring that money provided through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) be used only for nutritious foods consistent with those included under the WIC program, and be released only with a photo ID of the approved user.
f. Implementing a non-monetary-based assistance program for providing supplemental food benefits.
g. Removing prisoners from welfare rolls.
