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XIV. State Profiles
Sources for State Profiles
Administration
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families(TANF) FY 2002 Caseload
Funding and Expenditures
Participation and Sanctions
TANF Benefit Structure
Caseload & Unemployment Rates (Graphs)
Sub-State Caseload as a Percent of State
All-Family Work Participation Rates
HPB Earnings Performance
Individual State Profiles
This chapter contains individual TANF Profiles for each State and the District of Columbia. These TANF profiles contain information on program administration, funding, expenditures, caseload, benefit structure, participation rates, and High Performance Bonus earnings performance rates.
The following page presents an example of these State TANF profiles, along with a legend explaining each entry and listing sources used to create it. All 50 State profiles along with the District of Columbia are then presented in alphabetical order.
2. Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) FY 2002 Caseload
a. FY 2002 TANF caseload data (Chapter 1 Table A)
b. FY 2002 caseload breakdown by case type categorized
c. Time Limits
These numbers are based on the information provided in the FY 2001 and FY 2002 ACF-196 forms, including MOE and SSP figures. Tables A, A1, B, B1, C, and C1 were utilized for this project.
a. States' FY 2002 State Family Assistance Grant (SFAG) and national rank
b. FY 2002 Funding (in millions)
c. Expenditure Profile provides a breakdown of expenditures by category. Dollars in millions reflect combined Federal PLUS State MOE. The percentages are of combined Federal plus State MOE.
4. Participation and Sanctions
a. State FY 02 participation rate and FY 02 zero participation rate (Table 3:1:b, Table 3:7:c).
b. State sanction policy for non-compliance is provided in this area (Table 12:8).
c. Overall participation rates (with and without waiver) and national rank as well as participation rates and ranks by work activity defined in eight general categories based on the average monthly number of participating families (Table 3:6:a).
Benefits and earnings are compared to the State Median Income (SMI) and Federal Poverty Level (FPL) for the State (Table 12:2, also Urban Institute Welfare Rules Database).
6. Caseload & Unemployment Rates (Graphs)
The top graph compares FY 2002 caseload to FY 2002 unemployment rates. The bottom graph compares caseloads to unemployment rates from FY 1996 to FY 2002. Monthly caseload data was retrieved from chapter 2 of the TANF Second, Third, Fourth, and Fifth Annual Reports to Congress, and Table 1:8 from this report. The 5-year monthly unemployment rates were retrieved from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
7. Sub-State Caseload as a Percent of State
This section provides the States' top TANF caseloads by area/county as a percent of the State Caseload as of September 2002. The information was received directly from 22 jurisdictions and retrieved from official State web sites containing TANF statistics for the 29 remaining jurisdictions.
8. All-Family Work Participation Rates
This section provides the overall percent of the average monthly TANF cases and national rank for families exempt from participation. In addition, a breakdown, by category, of those exempt from participation is provided by percent and national rank (Table 3:3:a).
The States' percentages and national rank for earning initiation, retention, and gain are provided in this section. In addition, the change from the previous year is provided (Table 5:5).
Link to Individual State Profiles
This document was last modified on
May-29-2008
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