1.   Applications are to be made to the borough council and English Heritage for cash assistance in repairing the pump house roof.

2.   And by having spent less over the years than better-off states, the poorer states will also collect less in the new matching federal block grants for cash assistance.

3.   As for illegal immigrants, they are already barred from access to most benefit programs, including cash assistance, food stamps and nonemergency Medicaid care.

4.   -- Eliminate direct cash assistance to illegal immigrants, such as Aid to Families With Dependent Children and Supplemental Security Income.

5.   -- Prohibit direct cash assistance to immigrants who are not legal permanent residents, refugees or asylum grantees.

6.   But a family from California, which has higher benefits than Pennsylvania, receives the amount of cash assistance paid to longtime residents.

7.   But his current view is that the Republican plan bites too deeply into cash assistance, child nutrition, child care and food stamps.

8.   But it is unclear whether people seeking or receiving cash assistance can sue to make a state comply with either the federal law or its own state plan.

9.   But many of them contend that welfare should remain an entitlement program, guaranteeing cash assistance to anyone who meets certain eligibility criteria.

10.   But most choose not to accept cash assistance and instead sign up for the Early Employment program, says Peter Herbert, regional director for the International Rescue Committee.