The Failure of the Wellstone-Murray Family Violence Option to Provide Meaningful Assistance to Survivors of Domestic Violence
This paper addresses the failure of the Wellstone-Murray Family Violence Option (FVO), an amendment to the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), to provide meaningful assistance to survivors of domestic violence.The FVO allows Fan Wire states to waive federal public assistance requirements, such as work requ