AFDC Child-Only Cases:
September 1996 - June 1997

State Child-Only Cases
with Parents in the Household
Of those Cases with Parents in the Household:
Reasons Parents are Ineligible
SSI Benefit Alien Status Sanction [ETP 12] Other or Unknown
US Total 563,363 38% 26% 15% 21%
Alabama 10,253 52% 0% 26% 22%
Alaska          
Arizona 12,116 13% 32% 6% 50%
Arkansas 3,748 56% 1% 8% 34%
California 152,572 25% 58% 9% 9%
Colorado 4,046 47% 13% 4% 37%
Connecticut 2,362 50% 0% 0% 50%
Delaware 1,122 48% 4% 32% 16%
District of Columbia 2,136 27% 9% 31% 33%
Florida 21,667 41% 13% 10% 36%
Georgia 17,397 20% 0% 18% 62%
Guam 205 0% 0% 18% 83%
Hawaii 1,167 9% 0% 65% 26%
Idaho 1,217 33% 0% 11% 56%
Illinois 21,253 44% 11% 21% 24%
Indiana 8,675 46% 2% 34% 18%
Iowa 2,906 59% 6% 2% 33%
Kansas 3,269 45% 12% 14% 30%
Kentucky 12,978 72% 5% 23% 4%
Louisiana 15,521 43% 0% 1% 56%
Maine 1,166 91% 0% 4% 4%
Maryland 5,291 36% 3% 39% 22%
Mass 11,075 49% 10% 12% 29%
Michigan 16,204 76% 2% 16% 6%
Minnesota 4,348 30% 10% 7% 53%
Mississippi 9,704 59% 0% 10% 31%
Missouri 9,663 42% 7% 14% 44%
Montana 656 14% 0% 29% 57%
Nebraska 1,820 52% 13% 13% 22%
Nevada 3,288 19% 14% 57% 10%
New Hampshire 483 43% 0% 0% 57%
New Jersey 10,655 25% 13% 58% 4%
New Mexico 4,482 26% 4% 30% 40%
New York 57,406 28% 30% 12% 30%
North Carolina 4,776 74% 0% 13% 13%
North Dakota 357 37% 0% 26% 37%
Ohio 22,992 69% 1% 12% 18%
Oklahoma 4,562 52% 1% 25% 21%
Oregon 4,113 48% 16% 43% 6%
Pennsylvania 12,947 36% 1% 4% 58%
Puerto Rico 2,528 0% 0% 25% 75%
Rhode Island 2,193 44% 32% 2% 22%
South Carolina 5,533 55% 0% 26% 20%
South Dakota 1,023 18% 0% 27% 56%
Tennessee 8,883 75% 0% 42% 17%
Texas 31,035 23% 45% 18% 13%
Utah 967 46% 19% 8% 27%
Vermont 487 92% 0% 0% 8%
Virgin Islands 0 0% 0% 0% 0%
Virginia 6,983 49% 3% 20% 27%
Washington 9,657 47% 24% 20% 9%
West Virginia 5,174 62% 0% 12% 26%
Wisconsin 7,770 65% 4% 13% 18%
Wyoming 532 24% 0% 33% 42%

Source:  October 1996 - June 1997 AFDC QC Data.  Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation.


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