The most notable is the requirement that recipients work in exchange for their benefits.

This stipend is intended to allow recipients to work full time at their art.

In 1995, as in 1979, about 40 percent of welfare recipients worked at some time during the year.

But the welfare law requires most recipients to work 20 hours a week in 1997, rising to 30 hours by 2000.

The last four years have brought an unparalleled effort to put recipients to work.

The social workers are to offer to help the recipients work with the system.

Under current law, recipients must work 30 hours a week, though up to 10 can be met through other supervised activities.

Most recipients would be working parents with low incomes and dependent children.

Though Federal law requires recipients to work within two years, few states are letting them wait that long.

And if former recipients are not working, it is seldom because of a job shortage, the problem that many analysts feared a few years ago.