11. Yet there was no change this year in welfare cases closed because of higher earnings. 12. They say two or three tenants every few weeks now have their welfare cases closed. 13. A social worker Biber had met through his welfare cases asked him to perform her surgery. 14. I am strongly, wholly and powerfully opposed to politicians interfering with individual child welfare cases . 15. Kuriansky also noted that only a tiny percentage of the city's welfare cases involved fraud. 16. In Florida, the welfare cases dropped by 75 percent and its poverty rate declined by 1 percent. 17. Right now, administration officials said, the typical state has 30 percent of its welfare cases working. 18. When it does, the 7, 800 welfare cases it handles will be somebody else's responsibility. 19. In Texas, the welfare cases dropped by 47 percent while its poverty rate declined by . 9 percent. 20. The state settled that lawsuit and agreed to review all child welfare cases _ more than 14, 000.