91.   Most former welfare recipients still qualify for Medicaid, but -- for a variety of reasons -- many leave the program.

92.   Other provisions include extension of credits aimed at encouraging businesses to hire workers from certain targeted groups and to provide jobs for former welfare recipients.

93.   Other studies also have found low participation among former welfare recipients in child care programs.

94.   State officials are also planning to knock on doors of former welfare recipients this summer, informing them of the benefits.

95.   The defectors include former constitutional affairs minister G.L. Peiris, former environmental minister Mahinda Wijesekera and S. B. Dissanayake, former welfare minister and close aide of Kumaratunga.

96.   The measure also renews credits encouraging businesses to hire former welfare recipients and people from groups who traditionally have trouble keeping jobs.

97.   This group would include former welfare recipients.

98.   There also are important constituencies for expiring credits for businesses that hire former welfare recipients and people who traditionally have difficulty holding jobs.

99.   The senior Congress leaders whose telephones are being tapped include fomer home minister S.B. Chavan, former external affairs minister Pranab Mukherjee and former welfare minister Sitaram Kesari.