APPENDIX VII
TANF Recipients with Months against the Clock since August 1996

In Mecklenburg County, 3,768 TANF recipients show one or more months on the two-year time clock.
The most common number of months on the time clock is one month. Almost one fifth (18%) of TANF recipients with any time on the two-year clock have only one month.
About half (47%) of the people with time against the 24-month limit have only three months or less, and almost three-quarters (72%) have 6 months or less.
Only 13 people (0.3%) have used all 24 months of their allotted time on cash assistance. By the end of 1998, 56 additional people (1.6%) could potentially reach the two-year limit (See months 20-23 in Table 1).

Table 1: TANF Recipients with Months Against the Two-Year Limit. See text for explanation.

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