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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

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The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) 12th Report to Congress from the Office of Family Assistance provides data from the TANF program from fiscal years 2014 and 2015. It presents information on expenditures, caseloads, work…

Report

This report presents findings from an intervention designed to increase the number of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families recipients who “reengaged” in Los Angeles County’s welfare-to-work program.

Two behaviorally informed notices…

Report

Many programs attempting to improve employment outcomes for low-income adults use financial incentives or sanctions to motivate participants to obtain and/or retain a job. This brief describes the employment and earnings impacts of 12…

Question / Response(s)

The Peer TA Network would like to know if any State had court cases or administrative hearings on civil rights issues in relation to sanctioning TANF participants?

Report

Almost half of TANF cases are "child-only" in which no adult is included in the benefit calculation. In about 4 out of 10 these cases, the children live with relatives or nonrelatives instead of their parents. The other 6 in 10 cases include…

Report

A central component of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is its emphasis on work. Adult TANF recipients, with some exceptions, must participate in work activities as a condition of receiving cash benefits. This brief…

Report

In this paper, we examine how policy and structural changes states made in response to the DRA may influence the level and composition of the TANF caseload. This paper grew out of a 50-state survey Mathematica Policy Research conducted on…

Presentation

This presentation was given as part of the Eleventh Annual Welfare Research and Evaluation Conference, which is sponsored through the Administration for Children and Families, Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation. Richard Fording,…

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Community Partnership would like to know if anyone can recommend any training sessions or classes that would benefit the coordinator of a program designed to eliminate barriers to employment, so as to enable clients to leave sanctioned status?

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A representative from the Tennessee Department of Human Services would like to have information on the sanction policy that other states use for participants who do not participate according to the regulations. Several clients are sanctioned for non-compliance, comply for the required period, then become non-compliant again, and this cycle continues. Do other states have limits on the number of times that a client can be sanctioned, then comply, within a time period?