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Obama administration ‘guts’ welfare reform with new HHS rule 11:05 AM 07/13/2012 The Department and Health and Human Services announced the agency will issue waivers for the federal work requirement of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program — considered a central facet of welfare reform in 1996 — Thursday. The “Information Memorandum” states that the agency will be issuing waivers for TANF’s work participation requirements for parents and caretakers as a way to find new approaches to better employment outcomes. “While the TANF work participation requirements are contained in section 407, section 402(a)(1)(A)(iii) requires that the state plan...