According to state figures, 130,000 children benefited from child support payments, and 510 families were removed from the public assistance rolls.

The welfare proposal would reward states that got people off the public assistance rolls and into jobs.

Since then, more than one million women in New York alone have left the public assistance rolls for work.

There is also no automatic eviction procedure that removes people from the assistance rolls.

Once families are off the public assistance rolls, they might as well have become invisible.

In fact, he said, it was the candidates from the public assistance rolls who were wary of living here.

The state has 330,000 people on public assistance rolls.

Mr. Clinton reported that 1.4 million people had left the public assistance rolls since he signed the welfare law in August 1996.

When economic expansion creates additional jobs, assistance rolls will experience a similar decline.

Or the absence of Sikhs from the public assistance rolls.