"A new federal rule will allow college students who receive welfare payments to count a year's worth of classes toward the program's work requirements, and the time they spend doing homework will no longer have to be supervised to count as work as well," The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. "Those provisions are part of a final rule for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services' Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program, which is scheduled to be published in the Federal Register this week, according to the Associated Press. The new rule's provision for unsupervised homework, which also applies to vocational schools and other educational activities, was sought by governors, who said the oversight requirement put into place in 2006 would increase state costs, the AP reported."