The feds are forwarding a six-and-a-half million dollar “bonus payment” to Iowa’s welfare program. Iowa Department of Human Services spokesman Roger Munns says the state’s getting the maximum federal “incentive” payment because Iowa’s had the most improvement of any state at getting welfare recipients into the work world.Iowa was the first state in the nation to enact welfare reforms that required those on public assistance to take steps to get a job.Twenty-six states and the District of Columbia are getting the latest round of “bonus” payments for welfare program successes. Munns says the money won’t be spent until this time next year.State officials have begun to plan for about 10-million dollars worth of cuts in the state’s welfare program for next year, and the federal money will be used to offset those cuts.