Welfare Benefits Reduction Plan CARSON CITY, NV (KUNR) - Nevada welfare officials faced with

shrinking funds and growing caseloads have adopted one

benefit-limiting plan. But they have sidelined others after being

urged by advocates for the poor to avoid steps that could hurt

children. Nancy Ford, head of Nevada's Division of Welfare and

Supportive Services, approved a plan requiring welfare recipients

who don't attend required classes or look for work to "sit out"

of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program for three

months. The wait had been one month. But Ford rejected a proposal

to take food stamps from entire households, including children,

when the head of the household fails to meet requirements such as

attending job workshops.
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