TANF and Drug Testing – Florida

DCF: Positive drug test will lead to child abuse hotline referral, By Catherine Whittenburg, June 28, 2011, Tampa Bay Tribune: “Starting next month, Florida’s social service agency will refer every welfare applicant who fails a drug test to a child abuse hotline. State officials deny the drug test results may be used to remove children from their parents, but civil rights activists fear it will. Beginning Friday, anyone applying to the state for temporary cash assistance must pass a drug test to receive benefits…”