1.   Spending more on training and placement normally saves money on welfare grants.

2.   An aide to Speaker Sheldon Silver, Democrat of Manhattan, said Silver would probably support some time limits on welfare grants.

3.   Any change, said Ellwood, meant recalculating the welfare grant, and that led to a higher potential for error.

4.   At the same time, people who still obtain Medicaid along with a welfare grant are now at greater risk of losing both.

5.   Both plans would maintain current levels for welfare grants to states, known as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

6.   Advocates for low-income families want states to be more accountable for how they spend their welfare grants and for their performance in getting people into jobs.

7.   But he shuddered at the possibility that black-market dealings might become the only means of sustenance for some whose welfare grants have ended.

8.   But there are other problems that may result from the way New York and other states have spent their federal welfare grants.

9.   But welfare grants do not.

10.   For Morehouse, having a job means a weekly paycheck instead of a monthly welfare grant and foodstamps.