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Recent Legislative and Regulatory Changes

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Recent Legislative and Regulatory Changes

Title IV and subtitle A of title VIII of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) contain major and extensive revisions to the Food Stamp Program, including strong work requirements on able-bodied adults without dependent children, restricted eligibility of legal immigrants, and a reduction in maximum be
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Food Stamp Program

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Food Stamp Program

The Food Stamp Program, 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 Food Stamp Program has few cate
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Table TANF 14.AFDC/TANF Recipiency Rates for

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 14.AFDC/TANF Recipiency Rates for Children by State, Selected Fiscal Years 1965 – 2001 [In percent]

  1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1994 2001 Percent Change 1989-94
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Table TANF 13. Average Number of AFDC/TANF Child

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 13. Average Number of AFDC/TANF Child Recipients By State, Selected Fiscal Years [In thousands]

  1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1994 2001 Percent Change 1989-94
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Table TANF 12. AFDC/TANF Recipiency Rates for

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 12. AFDC/TANF Recipiency Rates for Total Population by State: Selected Fiscal Years [In percent]

  1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1994 2001 Percent Change 1989-94
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Table TANF 11. Average Monthly AFDC/TANF

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 11. Average Monthly AFDC/TANF Recipients by State, Selected Fiscal Years [In thousands]

  1965 1970 1975 1980 1985 1989 1994 2001 PercentChange 1989-94
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Table TANF 10. AFDC/TANF Caseload by State,

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 10. AFDC/TANF Caseload by State, October 1989 to September 2002 Peak [In thousands]

State Peak Caseload Oct ‘89 to Sept ’02 Date Peak Occurred Oct ’89 to Sept ’02 Sept ’96 Caseload Sept ’02 Caseload Percent Decline 1 Sept ’96 to Sept ’02 Percent Decline Peak to Sept ’02 1 Negative values denote percent increase.
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Table TANF 9. Comparison of Federal Funding for

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 9. Comparison of Federal Funding for AFDC and Related Programs and 2001 Family Assistance Grants Awarded Under PRWORA [in Millions]

State FY 1996 Grants for AFDC, EA & JOBS 1 FY 2001 State Family Assistance Grant 2 Increase from FY 1996 Level Percent Increase from FY 1996 Level
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Table TANF 8. AFDC/TANF Benefits by State,

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 8. AFDC/TANF Benefits by State, Selected Fiscal Years 1978 – 2001

  1978 1982 1984 1986 1988 1990 1994 1996 1998 2001 Note: Benefits refers to total cash benefits paid (see Table TANF 3) but does not include emergency assistance payments. NA denotes data not available.
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Table TANF 7. Characteristics of AFDC/TANF

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 7. Characteristics of AFDC/TANF Families, Selected Years 1969 – 2001

  May 1969 May 1975 March 1979 Fiscal year 1   1983 1988 1992 1996 1998 2000 2001
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Table TANF 6. Trends in AFDC/TANF Average Monthly

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 6. Trends in AFDC/TANF Average Monthly Payments, 1962 – 2001

  Monthly Benefit per Recipient Average Number of Persons per Family Monthly Benefit per Family (not reduced by Child Support) Weighted Average 1 Maximum Benefit (per 3-person Family) Fiscal Year Current Dollars 2001 Dollars
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Table TANF 5.Federal and State TANF Program and

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 5.Federal and State TANF Program and Other Related Spending Fiscal Years 1997 to 2001 (Millions)

  Cash & Work-Based Assistance Work Activities Child Care Trans- portation Adminis- tration Systems Transitional Services Other Expenditures Total Expenditures
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Table TANF 4. Federal and State AFDC Benefit

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 4. Federal and State AFDC Benefit Payments Under the Single Parent and Unemployed Parent Programs, Fiscal Years 1970 to 1996 [In millions of current and 1996 dollars]

Fiscal Year (1) Single Parent 1 (2) Unemployed Parent (3) Child Support Collections 2 (4) Net Benefits 3 (1) + (2) minus (3) (5) Net Benefits ( 1996 dollars) 4 > 1 Includes payments to two-parent families where one adult is incapacitated.
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Table TANF 2. Number of AFDC/TANF Recipients, and

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 2. Number of AFDC/TANF Recipients, and Recipients as a Percentage of Various Population Groups, 1970 – 2001

Calendar Year 1 Total Recipients in the States & DC (in thousands) Child Recipients in the States & DC (in thousands) Recipients as a Percent of Total Population 2 Recipients as a Percent of Poverty Population 3 Recipients as a Percentof Pretransfer Poverty Population 4 Child Recipients as a Percent of Total Child Po
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Table TANF 1. Trends in AFDC/TANF Caseloads, 1962

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Table TANF 1. Trends in AFDC/TANF Caseloads, 1962 – 2001

  Average Monthly Number(In thousands) Children asAverage 1 Fiscal Year Total Families 1 Total Recipients Unemployed Parent Families Unemployed Parent Recipients Total Children a Percent of Total Recipients Number of Children per Family
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Figure TANF 2. Average Monthly AFDC/TANF Benefit

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Figure TANF 2. Average Monthly AFDC/TANF Benefit per Recipient in Constant Dollars

Note: See Table TANF 6 for underlying data. Source: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, Quarterly Public Assistance Statistics, 1992 & 1993 plus unpublished data and Fifth TANF Annual Report to Congress, 2003.
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Figure TANF 1. AFDC/TANF Families Receiving

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. Figure TANF 1. AFDC/TANF Families Receiving Income Assistance

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AFDC/TANF State-by-State Trends

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. AFDC/TANF State-by-State Trends

AFDC/TANF State-by-State Trends (Tables TANF 8-14). There is a great deal of state-to-state variation in the trends discussed above. For example, as shown in Table TANF 10, while every state has experienced a caseload decline since 1993, the percentage change between the state’s caseload peak and September 2002 ranges from 94 percent (Wyoming) t
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AFDC/TANF Recipient Characteristics

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. AFDC/TANF Recipient Characteristics

AFDC/TANF Recipient Characteristics (Table TANF 7). With the dramatic declines in the welfare rolls since the implementation of TANF, there has been a great deal of speculation regarding how the composition of the caseload has changed. Two striking trends are the increases in the proportion of child-only cases and in employment among adult recip
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AFDC/TANF Expenditures

Indicators of Welfare Dependence: Annual Report to Congress, 2003. AFDC/TANF Expenditures

AFDC/TANF Expenditures (Tables TANF 3-6 and Figure TANF 2). Tables TANF 3, 4 and 5 show trends in expenditures on AFDC and TANF. Table TANF 3 tracks both programs, breaking out the costs of benefits and administrative expenses. It also shows the division between federal and state spending. Table TANF 4 breaks out the benefits paid under the sing

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