DHHS Reports: More Welfare Recipients are Working

February 25, 2002 DHHS Reports: More Welfare Recipients are Working For the fourth consecutive year, states continue to meet the federal welfare reform law's overall work participation rates, Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced in February 2002. Since 1992, there has been a five-fold increase in the percentage of welfare recipients who are working, he said. Nationally, the percentage of working welfare recipients reached 33 percent in 2000. This means that more than one in three adult welfare recipients was working in a typical month, the highest level ever recorded and nearly . . .