e may be the last to get services.The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act restricts states from using federal TANF block grant funds to assist most families for more than five years. However, states can implement their own time limits. In Utah, there is a 36-month lifetime limit. This introduces some problems. A study in Riverside, CA, (before time-limits) found that nearly half of the AFDC recipients would have reached a two-year time limit within four years (Greenberg, 1996). This means, especially in Utah, that time limits will need to make huge behavioral changes to prevent people from reaching their limit so quickly. ...
