Welfare/TANF

Welfare. Welfare is used to help families in need of assistance with money. A program that helps with this is the TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) There is a controversy as to how strict the eligibility and requirements should be to be able to receive assistance. This is because as you can see in the picture that I have up there, the number of welfare recipients are getting higher and higher. Although there are people that abuse the program for free money or drug use, there are actual people that need the help to be able to get food on their table everyday. For example in my mothers case. My mother is a single mother whose children have all grown up. But one is still a child on the inside, in his brain. My father left when we were in our teens, which is the worst time. My father did not think that this would affect anyone but it did. It affected my mother, not only because they have been married since forever, but because of my brother. My brother is mentally retarded and needs to be watched 24/7. Because of this with no help of my dad, my mother cannot work. She gets about $300 from my brothers SSI to pay the rent, but how can she get food? My mother would go to food banks but sometimes it was not enough. So she was able to qualify for welfare. Welfare saved us from hunger. My mother would love to work, but in the circumstance that she is in, she cannot.
So in a case like that I think that those people should be eligible to receive welfare because how else are they supposed to get money for food. As for the people that use welfare money for drugs (by selling the debit card) they should be required to take drug tests because there are people that want to take away the welfare program because of the drug use, which could hurt lots of families in need if they took the welfare program away.