Remove the Fedcap & similar organizations from TANF services

    FEDCAP, ASPIRE & other similar organizations have been a part of the TANF income services for some time now. These programs have been known to misplace information given by a client or fail to relay that needed information to its destination causing client to then be sanctioned for the organizations mistake.

    On top of having no organization within their company they have requirements that are borderline impossible to balance within the clients daily schedule. Clients are having to travel an hour or more out of their way to complete "On site" work that could easily be done at home. This being said 99% of clients are families hence the name Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) meaning they have children to tend to. Anyone who is a parent knows that children take up alot of time. Having to balance the children's needs, daily life such as paying bills, shopping for food or other day to day actives leave little to no room for anything else. Having to meet the requirements for Fedcap or suffer the consequences is very overwhelming for most.

    Client reviews of this program are less than appealing. Those who have worked for Fedcap have often left even worse feedback than the clients and revealed some of the behind the scenes stuff. There are also claims of selling personal information made against the organization but no physical proof to support it.

    I ask you this now, Do Food-stamp recipients have to attend sample tastings, budgeting classes or food prep courses to learn how to make their meals their using food-stamps on last longer? Do Disability recipients have to maintain a constant attendance at a physical therapy site or counseling site? No, so why should TANF recipients have to bend over backwards and fold into 20 different shapes for Fedcap's amusement just to claim an income until they can find a new source of income. TANF was never meant to be a permanent solution for income, there is an expiration date in which you have a certain amount of hours you can claim until you can no longer receive TANF.

    98% of families who require TANF assistance are in a rough patch already and having to meet the requirements of Fedcap, Aspire and similar organizations just makes that rough patch 250% worse. Instead of allocating their time to finding that employment they now have to play the proverbial government game of "jumping through hoops" and "take banana make monkey dance" to survive and for their children to survive.

    In closure, Fedcap has a track history of loosing information that is time sensitive, not following up with their clients but instead demanding action and then not completing the task clients need completed by them to progress forwards, and all around inability to function properly with disorganization. Questions asked by clients are responded with at least 4 different answers all contradicting one another. Example, and I quote "Off site Job Logs can no longer be accepted by Fedcap and will not count towards your hours." Minutes later clients are being told to then fill out job logs at home and send them in via E-mail. Is this not offsite?

    Please help us in removing these programs from TANF services since it it obvious they have no idea what they are doing and are making it up as they go. Please sign this petition so it can then be sent to the proper party to be addressed and resolved.

    Thank you.
    Update #15 years ago
    We need as many signatures as possible. If you have been a part of Aspire or Fedcap services you know exactly what this is pertaining to. If you have not we can still use your help, I would not wish using this program on anyone.
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