Complaining after Claiming: Fair Hearings after Welfare Reform

Confronting Government After Welfare Reform: Moralists, Reformers, and Narratives of (Ir)responsibility at Administrative Fair Hearings

Almost 40 years ago, the Supreme Court, in the landmark case Goldberg v. Kelly (1970), provided welfare participants with a potentially potent tool for challenging the government welfare bureaucracy by requiring pre-termination hearings before welfare benefits were discontinued or reduced. In 1996, with the passage of the Personal Responsibility Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), the...

The Antecedents of Disputes: Complaining and Claiming

This paper focuses on the earliest stages of the problem resolution function of law and legal institutions: the emergence of grievances and their communication to a responsible party as complaints and claims. While the literature on this subject is broad, both in terms of methods and in terms of the fairly large number of countries where empirical research on this subject has been conducted, it...

Immigrants and Medicaid after welfare reform.

More than 30 million residents of the United States— about 11% of the population—were born in other countries, according to recent estimates from The Urban Institute. Two-thirds of these immigrants are noncitizens, who are more likely than citizens to be poor, even if they work full-time. Although approximately 28% of immigrants are undocumented, either because they entered the country illegall...

Medi-Cal after welfare reform: enrollment among former welfare recipients.

Recent studies have concluded that Medicaid enrollment fell over the past several years, both nationally and in California, for people leaving cash welfare. This ostensible decline occurred despite expansions to Medicaid eligibility and increases in outreach efforts designed to encourage people to continue using Medicaid after leaving welfare. Some of the ostensible decline in enrollment may ha...

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