Their plan would require welfare recipients to find jobs if they are able to work.

The city requires welfare recipients up to age 60 to work for their benefits.

The Senate appears likely to support major changes to require welfare recipients to work.

Members of both parties said they voted for the increase because Congress could not require welfare recipients to work longer hours without more child care.

Several states, however, already are moving on the basis of earlier experiments to require welfare recipients to work.

The administration plans to require welfare recipients to work 40 hours a week "at a job or in programs designed to help them achieve independence."

Officials in those states are bracing for the likelihood that Congress will require welfare recipients to work longer hours.

Rockefeller required employable welfare recipients to take available jobs or job training.

The measure would also require teen-age recipients to attend school and adults to find work or take part in community service.

Both politicians said they would also require welfare recipients to work or attend school in exchange for payments.