The Impact of the Felony Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits

Posted by The Sentencing Project on September 29, 2014

Campaigns to Eliminate Federal Lifetime Welfare Ban

This webinar will take place on Tuesday, October 14th at 2 p.m. Eastern. Click here to register.
https://attendee.gotowebinar.com/register/2551925067677986049

Presenters
Jessica Bartholow, Western Center on Law and Poverty
Jeanette Mott Oxford, Missouri Association of Social Welfare

During 2014, state advocates achieved legislative reforms in California and Missouri to eliminate the federal ban on food stamps for persons with felony drug convictions. As documented in our report, A Lifetime of Punishment: The Impact of the Felony Drug Ban on Welfare Benefits, a provision of the 1996 welfare reform legislation passed by Congress subjects an estimated 180,000 women in the 12 most impacted states to a lifetime ban on welfare benefits. This webinar will highlight the political and communications strategies in states that have achieved recent reforms.

http://sentencingproject.org/doc/publications/cc_A%20Lifetime%20of%20Punishment.pdf