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Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Nineteenth

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Nineteenth Report to Congress

The annual recipiency rate reflects the percentage of the total population who received or lived with a family member who received a cash benefit from TANF, SNAP, and/or SSI any time during the year. In 2017, the annual recipiency rate was 20.9 percent, an annual decrease of 1.1 percentage points compared with 2016.
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Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Eighteenth

Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors: Eighteenth Report to Congress

This report provides welfare dependence indicators through 2016 for most indicators and through 2017 for some indicators, reflecting changes that have taken place since enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996.
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - HHS

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations Click on the links to jump to the each office’s content, summarized in the parentheses next to the link.
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs - Interagency organizations

Home Department of Health and Human Services Interagency organizations As a member of the following interagency organizations related to human services, HHS would also like to make stakeholders aware of these additional websites with COVID-19 resources. Interagency Working Group on Youth Programs
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HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human

HHS COVID-19 Guidance and Information for Human Services Programs

This site provides key COVID-19-related guidance and information from HHS for human services program providers and stakeholders, particularly state and local government agencies and faith and community-based organizations.
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Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): An Overview

Oklahoma Marriage Initiative (OMI): An Overview of the Longest-Running Statewide Marriage Initiative in the U.S.

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Evaluation of the New Jersey Substance Abuse

Evaluation of the New Jersey Substance Abuse Research Demonstration

An Intervention for Welfare Recipients with Substance Abuse Problems
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State Implementation of Major Changes to Welfare

State Implementation of Major Changes to Welfare Policies, 1992 - 1998

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Endnotes

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Endnotes

1 Information in this section is from Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government field reports written by John Hall et. al. (1997 and 2002) , public documents, and interviews with state officials.
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Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

West Virginia spends more on its Medicaid program than any other single area of the state budget except for elementary and secondary education. Several state officials characterized the Medicaid program as an integral part of the West Virginia's health care system. It funds approximately 55 percent of the state's births. West Virginia's Medicaid p
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West Virginia's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. West Virginia's Response to Federal Welfare Reform(3)

West Virginia's response to federal welfare reform encompassed three phases. In the first phase, West Virginia officials designed the state's early TANF program to reduce caseloads to minimize financial risks associated with the new block grant structure of TANF and federal penalties for not meeting federal work participation rates. The state expe
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

West Virginia's executive budgeting model provides the governor and executive agencies with much authority in budget development and implementation. Significant gubernatorial authority includes sole responsibility for establishing revenue estimates, line item veto, and the ability to extend the legislature's regular session if they do not enact a
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West Virginia

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. West Virginia

Population (July 2003): 1.8 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $8,150 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 2.5 % (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 19.8 % (US: 20.8%) (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau and NASBO 2002 State Expenditure Report)
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Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

The state's Medicaid program plays a central role in South Carolina. It provides benefits to 20 percent of the population-including 40 percent of all children-and pays for 50 percent of all births. One-third of the state's senior citizens receive support from the program, and 75 percent of all nursing home beds are paid for by Medicaid.
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South Carolina's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. South Carolina's Response to Federal Welfare Reform

South Carolina's welfare reform program - known as the Family Independence Program (FIP) - was implemented in October 1996 as an AFDC waiver. The waiver remained in effect until September 2003. The cash assistance program is limited in duration to 24 months out of 10 years and no more than 60 months in a lifetime. To qualify, a family of two must
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

South Carolina's budget process is dominated by the legislature. The governorship is one of the weakest in the nation. Until 1977, governors served only one term, so legislators were around much longer and exerted greater influence. In 1993, the Restructuring Act created eight appointed cabinet positions (the positions were elective before then).
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South Carolina

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. South Carolina

Population (July 2003): 4.1 Million Total State Expenditures - SFY 2002: $14,894 Million (US Total: $1,073,816 Million) TANF Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 0.2 % (US: 1.3%) Medicaid Expenditures - SFY 2002 (% of total): 22.6% (US: 20.8%) (Source: U.S. Department of Commerce, Census Bureau and NASBO 2002 State Expenditure Report)
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Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. Other Federal Social Welfare Programs

When research staff interviewed state officials for this project in September 2003, many cited New Mexico's growing Medicaid program as the most pressing issue for the state's social welfare programs. In 2002, Medicaid was one of the largest programs in the state budget, second only to k-12 education spending. In that same year, the program provid
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New Mexico's Response to Federal Welfare

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. New Mexico's Response to Federal Welfare Reform

Welfare reform in New Mexico was a legal and philosophical struggle between the executive and legislative branches of government. The Johnson administration started work on its welfare reform proposal before the federal government enacted the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996.
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State Budget Development and Implementation

Spending on Social Welfare Programs in Rich and Poor States. Final Report.. State Budget Development and Implementation

New Mexico's budget cycle begins with the executive budget agency sending funding targets to state agencies for their budget requests. The executive budget proposal typically includes agency budget recommendations by functional category. The Legislative Finance Committee, the fiscal arm of the state legislature, releases its budget proposal at the

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