Caseload Reduction Credit Reports

1. Missing information on denials and closures
2. Bundling of eligibility change factors
3. Administrative changes
4. Due date for report (see archives)
5. SSP caseload adjustments
6. Effect of incomplete SSP-MOE reporting

Child-Only Cases

1. Crime victim payments

Definition of Assistance

1. Benefits and services like medical and substance abuse
2. Definition of employment
3. Foster care payments
4. Earned income disregards
5. Wage subsidies
6. Child support assignment and retained support
7. Incentives and bonuses
8. Work supports for employed families
9. Period for determining whether family is employed
10. Receipt of loans

Domestic Violence Waivers

1. Effect of five-year bar on individuals who were not qualified aliens at the date of enactment
2. Relevance of the definition of assistance for the five-year bar
3. Does application of section 525 of Division G of the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008 (Public Law 110-161) regarding eligibility of Iraqi and Afghan special immigrants for a Federal TANF public benefit end on September 30, 2008? (See TANF Program Instruction TANF-ACF-PI-2008-01, dated February 21, 2008.)
4. When does the count begin for the five-year bar, once the applicable 6-or-8 month exemption period expires for the Iraqi and Afghan special immigrants (See TANF Program Instruction TANF-ACF-PI-2008-01, dated February 21, 2008)?

1. Relevance of the definition of assistance
2. Recipients of State-funded benefits only
3. Benefits provided regardless of income or citizenship or alienage status

Individual Development Accounts (IDA's)

1. Contributions from tax refunds and EITC's
2. Use of Federal TANF funds to match Assets for Independence accounts
3. Use of MOE funds to match Assets for Independence accounts
4. Contributions in excess of Assets for Independence requirements
5. Using IDA to purchase cars
6. Eligibility to participate

Noncustodial Parents

1. Benefits to residents of another State

Penalty Process

1. Timing of penalty assessment
2. Table of regulatory citations, primary method of determining penalty liability, and penalty amounts
3. Table showing availability of reasonable cause and corrective compliance
4. Significance of Q's & A's as policy guidance

Reporting Deadlines

1. Y2K extensions
2. Annual report deadline

State Plans

1. Submittal requirements for plans due December 31, 1999 (see archives)
2. Submittal requirements for four States with plans submitted in 1998 (see archives)
3. Plan amendment deadline
4. Plan content requirement
5. TANF plan requirements under a WIA unified plan

1. Stopping the clock for victims of domestic violence
2. Two-parent families with one exempt parent
3. Reporting of two-parent families with one exempt parent
4. Treatment of families receiving no payment
5. Repayments of assistance
6. Is an individual required to have reached their 60-month limit before requesting a hardship extension? Is there a way to "suspend" the clock if this individual is in residential alcohol and drug treatment?

1. Services for the non-needy
2. Case management re accessing SSI benefits
3. Foster care by non-relatives
4. Payment rates for grandfathered activities
5. Legal guardians
6. Adoption assistance
7. Audits
8. Funding of CCDF program activities above the 30% cap on transfers
9. Return of CCDF transfers
10. Summer youth employment
11. Digital divide activities
12. Status of the Handbook of Public Assistance
13. Treatment of staff training costs
14. Treatment of SCHIP outreach and Food Stamp informational activities
15. Food Stamp and Medicaid administrative costs
16. Timeframes for filing claims
17. Expenditures related to goals three and four
18. Federal funds for health insurance coverage
19. Legal representation for SSI benefits
20. Resolving legal problems
21. Debt and credit problems
22. Supplementing UI benefits
23. Rent subsidies
24. Juvenile justice services under the grandfathering provision
25. Period for determining whether family is ready
26. Redetermining whether family is needy
27. Programs to assist families in purchasing a home
28. Purchase of multi-family buildings
29. Deferred payment loans to developers
30. Assistance to non-needy families
31. Language services to those with limited English proficiency
32. May a State automatically continue the emergency assistance (EA) and/or services it has provided pursuant to the grandfathering provision in section 404(a)(2) of the Social Security Act (Act) once the initial 12 month period has expired?
33. Can a county offer family planning services, funded by TANF, to a childless couple under TANF purpose 4?
34. Can State or Tribal Federal TANF funds be used to purchase tools and building materials in order to support a training program that will prepare needy TANF recipients for jobs in the "construction trades" such as carpenter, electrician, plumber, etc.?

35. The U.S. Department of Transportation's New Freedom Program (49 USC 5317), and the Formula Grants for Special Needs of Elderly Individuals (49 USC 5310) both have a cost sharing requirement. In pertinent part, both programs specify that the State's share of costs may be met “from amounts appropriated or otherwise made available to a department or agency of the Government (other than the Department of Transportation) that are eligible to be expended for transportation.” Is it allowable to use Federal TANF funds to help meet the cost-sharing requirement of either program?

Welfare Reform Waivers

1. Transition after waiver period
2. Scope of certifications of inconsistencies
3. Access to certifications
4. Treatment of two-parent families
5. Waiver of DRA statutory requirements

Work Penalty Amounts

1. Effects of corrective compliance and reasonable cause on subsequent-year penalties

Archives

Caseload Reduction Credit Reports

1. Due date for report

State Plans

1. Submittal requirements for plans due December 31, 1999
2. Submittal requirements for four States with plans submitted in 1998

TANF Reporting Questions

General Data Questions

1. First reporting month for applicants paid back to date of application
2. Cases erroneously paid assistance

TANF Data Report (TDR) -- Section One

1. Coding of new applicants
2. Number of family members
3. Family types for work participation
4. Subsidized housing definitions
5. Amount of food stamp assistance
6. Amount of child care assistance
7. Definition of cash resources
8. Amount of cash and cash equivalents
9. Tracking of employed and nonemployed families
10. Relationship between data elements 17 and 22
11. Receipt of child care under TANF and a separate State program
12. Family-paid child care
13. Reporting of transportation assistance
14. Estimates of the amount of transportation assistance
15. Reductions in assistance due to sanctions
16. Definition of a reduction in assistance
17. Treatment of reductions in transportation allowances under element 26.c.i
18. Treatment of reductions in transportation allowances under element 26.c.v
19. Coding of waiver status in non-waiver States
20. New child-only cases
21. Coding of family affiliation for noncustodial parents
22. Coding of affiliation for alien sponsors
23. Unknown SSN's
24. Race/Ethnicity Codes for Hispanics and Latinos
25. Reporting of disability benefits
26. BENDEX cases
27. Dependents of disabled wage-earners
28. Disabled adult children
29. SSI supplements
30. Definition of family for element #39
31. Codes for aliens
32. Cases with expired time limits, but receiving extensions
33. Months remaining in States with no time limits
34. Remaining months for exempt individuals
35. Status in current month where State has no time limits
36. Work participation status--exemption for child under 12 months
37. Treatment of sanction cases
38. Exempt participants
39. Participating mandatory participants
40. Assessing adequacy of hours for two-parent cases under element 48
41. Coding of waiver cases
42. Determining hours of participation
43. Education hours
44. Waiver hours in a non-waiver State
45. Public assistance as unearned income
46. EITC reporting
47. Rental assistance as unearned income
48. Reporting of Social Security and RSDI benefits
49. SSN's for unborn and newly-born children
50. Minor parents
51. Disregarded child care
52. Payments that combine assistance and non-assistance
53. Recoupments
54. Income disregards
55. Non-custodial parents not receiving assistance
56. Families with infants included in the work participation rate
57. Supplemental State payments
58. IDA contributions
59. SSA income received by children of deceased parent

TANF Data Report (TDR) -- Section Two

1. Closed cases
2. Closures due to earnings and employment
3. Closures related to moves to Tribal programs

TANF Data Report (TDR) -- Section Three

1. Month for reporting births
2. Estimates based on prior month
3. Definitions of out-of-wedlock and marital status

1. Effect of incomplete reporting on caseload reduction credit

1. Maximum two-parent rates
2. Required hours for two-parent cases
3. Including two-parent cases in all-families rate
4. Disabled-parent cases
5. Sample two-parent case situations
6. Generation of participation rate tables
7. Cases exempt with child under one
8. Cases with unrelated adults
9. Duplicate case closure reporting
10. Reporting on State programs not funded by MOE
11. Look-back period for sanction cases
12. Sanction cases that were previously not excluded from participation rates
13. Work participation standards that apply when a State elects to include
    Tribal TANF and NEW families in the work participation rate
14. Change in circumstance

Noncustodial Parent Reporting

1. Situations when reporting is required
2. Noncustodial parents who are members of other assistance units
3. Missing data
4. Reporting for cases not receiving "assistance"
5. Reporting the number of noncustodial parents participating in work activities