Many of the recipients said they had no idea the money was coming.

He said 10 to 15 percent of the recipients were already working.

The average age of the recipients is 87 years old.

A lot of the recipients happen to be poor; they don't have the money to pay.

The goal is to move more than 15 percent of the 360,000 recipients into the work force.

The total number of living recipients is limited to 300.

The following is a full list of recipients to date.

One of the first recipients, a dog, lived several years.

How many of the nation's five million welfare recipients will then find jobs on their own?

The number of welfare recipients is at a 42-year low.