| Temporary financial help works toward helping the | | | | individual or family can receive welfare |
| beneficiary achieve a non-dependent status after | | | | benefits.Other forms of financial helpScholarships |
| a period of time. Temporary financial help includes | | | | and student loans fall under the category of |
| those programs geared towards low-income | | | | temporary financial help because they are |
| individuals, students, and persons with medical | | | | available only during the period of time that a |
| needs.Most common type: Livelihood helpLivelihood | | | | student needs financial assistance for schooling. |
| financial help generally aids low-income individuals | | | | Once a student graduates from school, he or she |
| while they seek better-paying jobs or sources of | | | | is no longer eligible for financial help. Also, because |
| income. These programs are not meant to be | | | | with the schooling he or she received through the |
| long-term solutions to the problem of poverty. | | | | financial help system, the student should be |
| Instead, they merely provide a means for less | | | | equipped with skills that will enable him or her to |
| fortunate individuals to get out of the cycle of | | | | become fully self-sufficient.Temporary financial |
| poverty.IssuesIn recent years, U.S. welfare | | | | help is also available for hospitalization needs. Even |
| programs have been accused of perpetuating | | | | if a family is covered by medical insurance, the |
| poverty instead of ending it by providing means | | | | expenses incurred during the treatment of cancer |
| of livelihood for persons with no intention of | | | | or of a serious physical injury can pile up to such |
| supporting themselves. This controversy has | | | | a degree that financial help is necessary. Such |
| paved the way for welfare reforms. Welfare | | | | expenses include travel, meals, accommodations, |
| reforms saw the replacement of the Aid for | | | | and other uncovered items. Temporary financial |
| Families with Dependent Children with the | | | | help for these cases will only be available for the |
| Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, which | | | | duration of the treatment or therapy. |
| placed more limits on the period of time that an | | | | |