Welfare Reform [microform] : States Provide TANF-Funded Work Support Services to Many Low-Income Families Who Do Not Receive Cash Assistance. Testimony [before the] Committee on Finance, U.S. Senate / Cynthia M. Fagnoni
- Bib ID:
- 5693735
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Fagnoni, Cynthia M
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 2002
- 21 p.
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Information was collected on three issues related to the extent to which states use welfare dollars to provide work support and other services to welfare recipients and other low-income families. They were: extent of caseload decline since welfare reform was implemented and status of families who have left welfare; extent to which states spend Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and maintenance-of-effort (MOE) funds for cash assistance and noncash services and how this compares to welfare spending in fiscal year 1995; and extent to which states use TANF and MOE funds to provide services to low-incomes families not included in the reported welfare caseload. Findings indicated, as states implemented work-focused reforms during a period of strong economic growth, cash assistance caseloads dropped by more than 50 percent from 1996 through mid-2001. Focus of welfare spending shifted from monthly cash payments to services. States provided more work support services for welfare families and offered many services to low-income families not receiving welfare. At least 46 percent more families than were reflected in the TANF caseload data received a service funded with TANF/MOE dollars. Appendixes include the basis for the estimate of families receiving services and data on families receiving services. (Contains 18 footnotes.) (YLB)
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- Availability: U.S. General Accounting Office, P.O. Box 6015, Gaithersburg, MD 20884-6015 (first copy free; additional copies $2 each; 100 or more: 25% discount). Tel: 202-512-6000. For full text: http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d02615t.pdf.
- ERIC Note: For a related GAO report on welfare reform, see ED 465 867.
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