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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2008
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Organization(s): ASPE |
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared within the Office of Human Services Policy and delivered to Congress each spring. As mandated under the Congressional act, the report addresses the rate of welfare dependency, the degree and duration of welfare recipiency and dependence, and predictors of welfare dependence. Further, analyses of means-tested assistance in the report include benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; the Food Stamp Program, and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The report also includes risk factors related to economic security, employment, and nonmarital births, as well an appendix with data related to the above programs. |
Published: December, 2008 |
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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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Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007
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Organization(s): ASPE |
The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to prepare an annual report to Congress on indicators welfare dependence. The Indicators of Welfare Dependence report is prepared within the Office of Human Services Policy and delivered to Congress each spring. As mandated under the Congressional act, the report addresses the rate of welfare dependency, the degree and duration of welfare recipiency and dependence, and predictors of welfare dependence. Further, analyses of means-tested assistance in the report include benefits under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program; the Food Stamp Program, and the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program. The report also includes risk factors related to economic security, employment, and nonmarital births, as well an appendix with data related to the above programs. |
Published: July, 2007 |
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Economic Patterns of Single Mothers Following Their Poverty Exits
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Author(s): Quinn Moore, Anu Rangarajan, and Peter Schochet |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research (MPR) |
This report examines the employment patterns and income progression of single mothers and their families for two years after they exit poverty. The study found that 30 percent of single mothers were poor but then left poverty. Work effort was high among single mothers who left poverty: on average they worked for three-quarters of the subsequent two years following their poverty exit. Among this group of poverty leavers, 28 percent remained out of poverty for the next two years, 56 percent cycled in and out of poverty, and 16 percent reentered poverty and stayed poor over the next two years. Those who remained out of poverty tended to have higher paying jobs and more benefits (such as health insurance), and worked more hours than single mothers in the other two groups. The single mothers who stayed out of poverty also were somewhat older and were more likely to have more than a high school degree and to ever have been married. They were also much less likely to have a health limitation that affected their ability to work. |
Published: June, 2007 |
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Benefits and Costs of Increased Child Support Distribution to Current and Former TANF Families
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Final Report |
Author(s): Laura Wheaton and Elaine Sorensen, with Victoria Russell and Jeff Veersteeg |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This project models the effects of child support pass-through and disregard policy to estimate the benefits and costs of various federal and state policy choices. It estimate the effects of both program variables, such as changes in other public benefit payments and administrative costs, and some individual variables, such as noncustodial parents' payment of child support, to determine potential effects state policy changes on family income, the poverty gap, self-sufficiency, and government costs. Findings may be of interest to states as they contemplate the child support distribution options offered through the Deficit Reduction Act. |
Published: October, 2005 |
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Public Assistance Use Among Two-Parent Families:
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An Analysis of TANF and Food Stamp Program Eligibility and Participation |
Author(s): Anu Rangarajan, Laura Castner, and Melissa Clark |
Organization(s): Mathematica Policy Research |
This study examines eligibility and participation among married and single parents in TANF and Food Stamp Programs. Results show that even among eligible families below 200% of poverty, married parents are less likely to participate in TANF and Food Stamps compared to single parents. These differences persist after controlling for a variety of family demographic characteristics and financial circumstances, suggesting that the two family types make fundamentally different decisions regarding the use of public assistance. Results are based on data from the 2001 Current Population Survey as well as microsimulation results from the TRIM and MATH models. |
Published: January, 2005 |
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Summary of Immigrant Eligibility Restrictions Under Current Law
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Author(s): David Nielsen |
Organization(s): ASPE |
Summarizes the provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Act (PRWORA) as well as other recent legislation that restrict the program eligibility of immigrants. |
Published: October, 2004 |
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Application Process for TANF, Food Stamps, Medicaid, and SCHIP
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Issues for Agencies and Applicants, Including Immigrants and Limited English Speakers |
Author(s): Pamela A. Holcomb, Karen Tumlin, Robin Koralek, Randy Capps, Anita Zuberi |
Organization(s): Urban Institute |
This study provides descriptions and information about overall application procedures under four major assistance programs in a variety of venues (e.g., welfare offices, hospitals, health clinics) at six sites (Arlington, VA; Dallas, TX; Raleigh, NC; New York, NY; Seattle, WA; and Sedalia, MO). The study also looks at how programs are addressing particular issues related to immigrants and limited English proficient persons as part of the application procedures. |
Published: January, 2003 |
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How Are Immigrants Faring?
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Preliminary Evidence from Los Angeles and New York City |
Author(s): Randy Capps, Leighton Ku, and Michael Fix
Chris Furgiuele, Jeff Passel, Rajeev Ramchand, Scott McNiven, Dan Perez-Lopez, Eve Fielder, Michael Greenwell and Tonya Hays |
Organization(s): Urban Institute, Survey Research Center, University of California at Los Angeles |
This report primarily provides analyses based on a telephone survey of 3,447 immigrant families (i.e., families with at least one foreign-born adult) in New York City and Los Angeles County, including detailed data on 7,843 people in those families. It describes the living conditions and immigration status of about 4.8 million people in Los Angeles County and 3.5 million people in New York City who lived in immigrant families in late 1999 and early 2000. The survey was conducted in five languages and had a response rate of 69 percent. In addition, the report includes: information from in-person, follow-up interviews with 100 households in each city; and comparative information on native citizen families. |
Published: March, 2002 |
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Final Synthesis Report of Findings from ASPE "Leavers" Grants
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Author(s): Gregory Acs, Pamela Loprest, Tracy Roberts |
Organization(s): The Urban Institute |
The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), passed in 1996, replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants to states. Since that time, the federal cash assistance caseloads have dropped by over 50 percent, from 4.4 million in August, 1996 to 2.1 million in March, 2001. There is interest in understanding the circumstances of the unprecedented number of families that have left welfare, including their employment status, participation in public programs, and the overall well-being of both the leavers and their children.
Researchers have examined the well-being of families leaving welfare in the post-reform era. These studies vary widely in the populations they study, how they define a welfare "leaver," the outcomes that they examine and how those outcomes are measured, and in their methodological rigor. Consequently, it is difficult to use these studies to draw general conclusions about the status of TANF leavers nationwide.
To address the above questions about the circumstances of welfare leavers and to facilitate cross-state comparisons, ASPE awarded competitive grants to select states and large counties in September, 1998, to conduct studies of families that have left the welfare rolls. This report reviews and synthesizes key findings from fifteen of the ASPE-funded leavers studies.
The studies include both administrative and survey data on the well-being of families who left welfare. This synthesis includes information on welfare leavers' employment and earnings, public assistance program participation, income and poverty status, material hardships, and child well-being. In addition to publishing reports, grantees constructed public-use files containing state or county administrative data and/or survey data. Public use data from several of the sites are analyzed in this report to examine key outcomes for subgroups that may not have been included in the grantees' published reports. |
Published: November, 2001 |
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