Turning Welfare into a Work Support Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program

September 26, 2005 Turning Welfare into a Work Support: Six-Year Impacts on Parents and Children from the Minnesota Family Investment Program The Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) originated, in 1994, as a new vision of a welfare system that would encourage work, reduce reliance on public assistance, and reduce poverty. The program differed from the existing Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) system in two key ways: It included financial incentives to "make work pay" by allowing families to keep more of their welfare benefit when they worked, and it required longer-term welfare recipients to work or . . .