According to the 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Reconciliation Act (PRWRA) ,
A) all states must offer the same level of benefits to their residents in poverty.
B) states may offer welfare benefits that are more generous than those of the PRWRA, but they must not provide any less.
C) states have the right to be more restrictive in terms of benefits than the guidelines offered by the PRWRA.
D) welfare benefits are now provided only at the federal level.

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The PRWRA gave states the flexibility to design their own welfare programs and set their own benefit levels, allowing them to be more restrictive than federal guidelines if they choose.