http://cbs4denver.com/local/local_story_032101920.html

Feb 1, 2007 8:18 am US/Mountain

Colorado's Welfare Rolls Drop By Nearly 23 Percent
(AP) DENVER Colorado's welfare rolls dropped 23 percent last year, the first year-over-year drop since 2002.

Colorado Department of Human Services reports some large counties, such as Adams County, experienced drops of up to 27 percent.

At the end of last year, there were 11,368 people served by the Temporary Assistance to Needy Families program. The program's $154 million budget is mostly federal money.

Kevin Richards of the human service department's office of self sufficiency said they didn't anticipate the drop and believe part of it is that people are actively getting employment.

Richards said the state has not received any reports from counties that part of the drop is from people leaving the rolls because of immigration reform laws passed last year.

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I would bet immigration reform laws last yr had plenty to do with such a huge drop. Most agencies don't know how many people on programs are illegal anyway because usually they don't or can't ask.