North Carolina Welfare Recipients Forced All Welfare Recipients To Get Drug Tested.. Here Are The Results Recently, North Carolina implemented requirements that all welfare recipients be drug tested. They decided to release those results after NC Governor Pat McCrory vetoed a bill to test for drug abuse. In the first round of drug testing on 89 of the 7,600 people applying for the Work First program were tested for drugs. Of those tested, 21 were found to have illegal drugs in their system. Those who were found positive were disqualified from receiving benefits, and were required to pay the $55 fee for the drug testas well as any drug treatment involved. What do you think of this new measure? Should all welfare recipients be tested for drug use? 