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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages
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Organization(s): Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS |
The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAPs) are used in determining the amount of Federal matching funds for State expenditures for assistance payments for certain social services, and State medical and medical insurance expenditures. The Social Security Act requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to calculate and publish the FMAPs each year. For historical purposes, this web site lists recent FMAPs as well. |
Published: November, 2007 |
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2008
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Organization(s): Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS |
The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are used in determining the amount of Federal matching for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Foster Care Maintenance and Adoption Assistance payments. Figures are given for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. |
Published: November, 2006 |
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Green Book
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Background Material and Data on Programs within the Jurisdicition of the Committee on Ways and Means |
Author(s): Committee on Ways and Means |
Organization(s): Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives |
The Green Book is compiled by the staff of the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives from many sources and provides program descriptions and historical data on a wide variety of social and economic topics, including Social Security, employment, earnings, welfare, child support, health insurance, the elderly, families with children, poverty, and taxation. It has become a standard reference work for those interested in the direction of social policy in the United States. This web site contains links to editions available electronically. |
Published: June, 2003 |
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties
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Author(s): Jennifer Macomber, Stephanie Cuccaro-Alamin, Dean Duncan, et. al. |
Organization(s): Urban Institute with subcontractors University of California Berkeley and University of North Carolina Chapel Hill |
A primary task for youth in transitioning to adulthood is sustaining employment to be self-sufficient. Studies of former youth who age out of foster care find that they generally experience unstable employment patterns and earn very low incomes between ages 18 and 20. However, less is known about whether these youths initial patterns of employment instability and low earnings persist. This study linked child welfare, Unemployment Insurance (UI) and TANF administrative data to assess employment outcomes for former youth through age 24 in three states: California, North Carolina, and Minnesota. Descriptive, multivariate, and trajectory analysis techniques are employed to describe employment patterns. Findings indicate that low rates of employment persist through age 24; Low earnings persist through age 24 though few receive TANF benefits; and youth show four patterns of connectedness to the workforce that may provide insights to program planners considering how to best tailor services to youths needs. |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Evolving Roles of Public and Private Agencies in Privatized Child Welfare Systems
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Author(s): Elizabeth Lee and Cynthia Samples |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considered when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This third paper focuses on transitioning case management functions from public to private agencies as well as on how roles and responsibilities are shared and divided once privatization occurs. The paper is divided into four sections. The first section describes the history and complexity of defining privatization in child welfare services. The second section describes how some states have prepared their workforce for these new roles and responsibilities. The third section provides specific examples of how jurisdictions in seven states are dividing key case management activities for their out-of-home care population including initial case assessments, roles in dependency hearings, and ongoing case decision making. The final section describes the experience of a group of states that use private agencies to deliver foster care case management and have operational State Automated Child Welfare Information Systems. It presents some of the challenges faced by public and private agencies with their new information systems and offers examples of how states have facilitated the transition. |
Published: March, 2008 |
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More About the Dads:
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Exploring Associations Between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes |
Author(s): Karin Malm, Erica Zielewski, and Henry Chen |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This report is a follow-up to the study What About the Dads, published by ASPE and ACF in 2006. The original study examined child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. This report, using administrative data supplied by each of the states that participated in the original study, examines case outcomes for the children whose caseworkers were previously interviewed. At the time the data were extracted for this follow-up analysis, approximately two years had passed since the original interviews, and most of the children (75%) had exited foster care. These analyses use information from the original study about whether the father had been identified and contacted by the child welfare agency and about the contacted fathers' level of involvement with their children, combined with administrative data about case outcomes two years later, to explore three research questions: (1) Is nonresident father involvement associated with case length? (2) Is nonresident father involvement associated with foster care discharge outcomes? and (3) Is nonresident father involvement associated with subsequent child maltreatment allegations? |
Published: March, 2008 |
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Program and Fiscal Design Elements of Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives
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Author(s): Charlotte McCullough and Elizabeth Lee |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. This second paper describes choices faced by agencies as they design child welfare privatization initiatives. It is primarily descriptive and is intended to illustrate how various existing initiatives have defined their target populations and program scope, as well as how they have structured payments and distributed financial risk. |
Published: December, 2007 |
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Assessing Site Readiness:
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Considerations about Transitioning to a Privatized Child Welfare System |
Author(s): Elizabeth Lee and Karl Ensign |
Organization(s): Planning and Learning Technologies |
In 2006, ASPE funded the Child Welfare Privatization Initiatives Project to provide information to state and local child welfare administrators who are considering or implementing privatization reforms. The project will produce six papers on a range of topics providing insights about factors that should be considering when approaching or improving upon privatization efforts. The purpose of this first paper is to help child welfare administrators think through key issues about transitioning to a privatized system of service delivery. The paper is organized around 12 overarching questions that administrators need to ask themselves when assessing the readiness of their site. |
Published: September, 2007 |
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Federal Medical Assistance Percentages (FMAP), Fiscal Year 2007
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Organization(s): Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation, HHS |
The Federal Medical Assistance Percentages and Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages are calculated pursuant to the Social Security Act (the Act). These percentages will be effective from October 1 through September 30 of the indicated year. The "Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" and "Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages" are used in determining the amount of Federal matching for State medical assistance (Medicaid) and State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) expenditures, and Foster Care Maintenance and Adoption Assistance payments. Figures are given for each of the 50 States, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands. |
Published: November, 2005 |
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Federal Foster Care Financing:
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How and Why the Current Funding Structure Fails to Meet the Needs of the Child Welfare Field |
Author(s): Laura Radel |
Organization(s): ASPE |
The federal foster care program pays a portion of States costs to provide foster care for children removed from welfare-eligible homes because of maltreatment. Authorized under title IV-E of the Social Security Act, the programs funding (approximately $5 billion per year) is structured as an uncapped entitlement, so any qualifying State expenditure will be partially reimbursed, or matched, without limit. This paper provides an overview of the programs funding structure and documents several key weaknesses. It concludes with a discussion of the Administrations legislative proposal to establish a more flexible financing system. |
Published: August, 2005 |
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