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Measuring Welfare Dependence

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2002. Measuring Welfare Dependence

As suggested by its title, this report focuses on welfare “dependence” as well as welfare “recipiency.” While recipiency can be defined fairly easily, based on the presence of benefits from AFDC/TANF, SSI or food stamps, dependence is a more complex concept.
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Executive Summary

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2002. Executive Summary

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2002 Indicators of Welfare Dependence, the fifth annual report, provides welfare dependence indicators through 1999, reflecting changes that have taken place since ena
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Food Stamp Program

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006. Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program (FSP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, is the largest food assistance program in the country, reaching more poor individuals over the course of a year than any other public assistance program. Unlike many other public assistance programs, FSP has few categorical requi
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Food Stamp Program

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007. Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program (FSP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, is the largest food assistance program in the country, reaching more poor individuals over the course of a year than any other public assistance program. Unlike many other public assistance programs, the FSP has few categorical r
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program — originally named the Aid to Dependent Children program — was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a grant program to enable states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who had been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was abs
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Appendix A. Program Data

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2007. Appendix A. Program Data

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 specifies that the annual welfare indicators reports shall include analyses of families and individuals receiving assistance under three means-tested benefit programs:
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Picture of Housing and Health: Medicare and

Picture of Housing and Health: Medicare and Medicaid Use Among Older Adults in HUD-Assisted Housing

This paper describes the results of a pilot test to link HUD administrative data to CMS claims data. The project was successful in matching files for 12 geographic areas using 2008 claims. The results show that older adults receiving HUD assistance have higher Medicare and Medicaid utilization than individuals in the community not receiving HUD
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How States can Implement the Standardized

How States can Implement the Standardized Modified Adjusted Gross Income (MAGI) Conversion Methodology from State Medicaid and CHIP Data

This document explains various considerations for states deciding between SIPP and state administrative data, how to use the eligibility templates provided by CMS for the MAGI-based eligibility conversion process, and the steps that states wishing to perform the conversions using state Medicaid and CHIP data will need to follow.
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Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who

Coming of Age: Employment Outcomes for Youth Who Age Out of Foster Care Through Their Middle Twenties

A primary task for youth in transitioning to adulthood is sustaining employment to be self-sufficient. Studies of former youth who age out of foster care find that they generally experience unstable employment patterns and earn very low incomes between ages 18 and 20. However, less is known about whether these youths' initial patterns of employm
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More About the Dads: Exploring Associations

More About the Dads: Exploring Associations between Nonresident Father Involvement and Child Welfare Case Outcomes

This report is a follow-up to the study What About the Dads , published by ASPE and ACF in 2006. The original study examined child welfare agencies' efforts to identify, locate, and involve nonresident fathers of children in foster care. This report, using administrative data supplied by each of the states that participated in the original study,
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Assessing Child Support Arrears in Nine Large

Assessing Child Support Arrears in Nine Large States and the Nation

Despite record child support collections by state child support programs, considerable sums of child support go unpaid every year. This report provides a profile of state child support debt, examining who owes it and why it has grown so rapidly, based on analysis of state administrative data. Earnings data from the wage reporting system were used
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Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts

Enhancing Child Support Enforcement Efforts Through Improved Use of Information on Debtor Income

This report examines how some of the information available to OCSE and the states' IV-D programs through the Federal Parent Locator Service can be used to enhance enforcement efforts. Specifically, this report explores the potential income sources of non-custodial parents with arrearages. It examines alternative income sources for those obligors w
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Access to Child Care for Low-Income Working

Access to Child Care for Low-Income Working Families

This report provides new information on the number of children receiving subsidies through the Child Care Development Fund (CCDF) in fiscal year 1998 and on the number of children eligible for assistance, by state. The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) and the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (ASPE) prepar
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Interaction of Child Support and TANF: Evidence

Interaction of Child Support and TANF: Evidence from Samples of Current and Former Welfare Recipients

Welfare and child support programs have long been intertwined. Given the common populations served and the role that child support payments play in self-sufficiency and cost recovery, understanding the interaction between child support and welfare is important. This report examines the interaction of child support and welfare receipt by analyzing
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Food Stamp Program

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2005 . Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program (FSP), administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service, is the largest food assistance program in the country, reaching more poor individuals over the course of a year than any other public assistance program. Unlike many other public assistance programs, FSP has few categorical requi
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006. Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program — originally named the Aid to Dependent Children program — was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a grant program to enable states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who had been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was abs
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Appendix A. Program Data

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2006. Appendix A. Program Data

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 specifies that the annual welfare indicators reports shall include analyses of families and individuals receiving assistance under three means-tested benefit programs:
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Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC)

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2005 . Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) and Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

The Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program — originally named the Aid to Dependent Children program — was established by the Social Security Act of 1935 as a grant program to enable states to provide cash welfare payments for needy children who had been deprived of parental support or care because their father or mother was abs
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Appendix A Program Data

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2005 . Appendix A Program Data

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 specifies that the annual welfare indicators reports shall include analyses of families and individuals receiving assistance under three means-tested benefit programs: the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program authorized under part A of title IV of the Social Security Act (replaced with the Tempo
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INDICATOR 3. RATES OF RECEIPT OF MEANS-TESTED

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Indicator 3. Rates of Receipt of Means-tested Assistance

Figure IND 3a. Percentage of the Total Population Receiving AFDC/TANF, by Age: 1970-2001 Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, and U.S. Bureau of the Census, (available online at http://www.census.gov).

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