Effective Strategies Taken for Sustaining Economic Self- Sufficiency After Getting Off Welfare
The over-representation of the female headed families in the poor population raises much attention due to its strong link to the feminization of poverty. Social Assistance Act is the key anti-poverty policy in Taiwan on which public strategies taken to eradicate poverty among female headed families. But the measure of poverty is criticized for its underestimating the size of the poor in the country. Given the stringent threshold, how those female headed families who are on welfare and who are off welfare different from each other in terms of guaranteeing an economic self-sufficient living? Results of the study indicate that intergenerational transfer of either tangible or intangible assets plays an important role in sustaining economic self-sufficiency among the nonpoor female headed households. Implications for anti-poverty strategies and social work practice are discussed.
