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