MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Participants in Vermont’s Reach Up welfare-to-work program will see longer-term child care subsidies and an increase in the amount of income the program will disregard when calculating benefits, under a bill passed in the final hours of the legislative session.
Supporters say the legislation will help address a so-called “benefit cliff,” in which people sometimes go to work and see their state benefits drop so steeply that joining the workforce looks like a bad deal.
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