A legislative committee Tuesday approved the state`s plan to reduce Transitional Assistance welfare grants to nine months from a year for people deemed able to work.
The Joint Committee on Administrative Rules accepted the state Department of Public Aid`s plan to carry out the welfare cutback, which the General Assembly approved last July to reduce state spending.
Thousands of Transitional Assistance recipients deemed able to work will lose their benefits April 1, nine months through the state budget year. Transitional Assistance will become a six-month program next fiscal year for those declared able to work.
A group representing welfare recipients had asked the state to exempt all homeless Transitional Assistance recipients from the cutback.
