Putting a Face on Welfare Spat

[oysterbay]

1. Yes, the rules are mond-boggling

Recently I was reading a similar post which led me to a Michigan state website with the guidelines, and they are complicated, confusing, convoluted, and the compliance process (crossing the t's and dotting the i's) is onerous.

There are minimum time requirements, certain activities are required, certain activities are allowed (qualify as meeting certain requirements), some activities are not allowed (may be helpful to reaching self-sufficiency but are not counted toward meeting requirements), some may be used to fulfill Column B requirements but not Column A requirements. Some activities are a Core Activity, some are not. Working at a menial dead-end job (job experience!) is valued more highly than going to school to learn a valuable skill. You have to be a highly trained bureaucrat and think very imaginatively to make sense of it all.