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Korea started to provide cash benefits to those who can work under the National Basic Livelihood Security Act(NBLS) in 2000. The introduction of NBLS has raised some concerns regarding negative side effects of NBLS, such as work disincentive and welfare dependence. This paper reviews the experience of AFDC program, which provided cash benefits to single parents who ran work, and the welfare reform efforts to reduce the negative effects of AFDC in the U.S.. On the basis of this 『☞view, 1 suggest some policy impications for NBLS in Korea. First, N5IS needs to be improved to be able to provide the poor with the basic livelihood security. In particular, policy priority should be put on those who ran not work over those who can work. Second, NBLS needs to push its beneficiaries who can work to leave NBLS and to participate in the labor market. At the same time, in order to help low-income workers to accomplish self-sufficiency through the labor market, it is important to expand the public assistance for the low-income workers.
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