Welfare Reform/TANF News feed http://www.cbpp.org/topic/?fa=topic&id=42 en-us Copyright 2008 Center on Budget and Policy Priorities. All rights reserved. Thu, 08 Oct 2009 22:00:03 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Director of the Center’s Welfare Reform and Income Support Division, Dr. LaDonna Pavetti, testifies on the safety net's response to the recession before the U.S. House of Representative's Ways and Means Subcommittee on Income Security and Family. Duration: 10:55 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/BwRHrSvwF8k/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2946 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 17:51:05 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2946 Thank you for the opportunity to testify today. My testimony will focus on four points: With recent Census data showing increases in poverty and declines in incomes even before Americans began experiencing the worst effects of the recession — and with further deterioration expected in both areas — policymakers face a serious challenge in helping low-income populations cope with the downturn. The recovery act passed in February has kept this serious recession from being … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/5p584f1UWYU/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2945 Thu, 08 Oct 2009 09:56:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2945 The TANF provisions in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 create a new and temporary TANF Emergency Fund available to states, territories, and tribes for federal fiscal years 2009 and 2010.[1] States can receive additional funding through the TANF Emergency Fund for increased expenditures in basic assistance, short-term non-recurrent benefits, and subsidized employment. Many states already have begun to draw down TANF emergency funds. In many states, … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/vIcGCmkN5T4/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2878 Wed, 29 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2878 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/1XhuBXhKTRA/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1291 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1291 Introduction On June 29, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issued regulations regarding the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. These regulations define the activities that are countable toward the work participation rate requirements, describe how the states must monitor and verify the hours that TANF recipients participate, and add some categories of parents who only receive benefits on behalf of their children to the work participation rate … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/QkVhSuB0f2U/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=519 Fri, 21 Jul 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=519 The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) established the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. Under TANF, states received fixed block grants and had broad flexibility to design their own rules for their cash assistance programs, and broad authority to use the block grant resources for other programs outside of cash assistance to assist low-income families, promote marriage, and reduce non-marital childbearing. Many … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/PmhFMssEw8g/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=600 Thu, 17 Aug 2006 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=600 Overview In the wake of federal TANF changes, states face key choices as they decide the next direction for their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. In early 2006, Congress enacted changes to TANF in the Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) that effectively increase the proportion of assistance recipients that states must have participating in work activities for a specified number of hours each week. HHS has since issued TANF rules that make it more difficult for … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/FTlyoPfW08M/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=989 Thu, 07 Dec 2006 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=989 In the coming months, states will face key choices as they decide the next direction for their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. After a lengthy and contentious reauthorization process, Congress enacted changes to TANF in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) that substantially increase the proportion of assistance recipients who must participate in work activities for a specified number of hours each week. In June 2006, the Department of Health and Human … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/FA6aVFkx-KE/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1176 Fri, 09 Feb 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1176 The TANF provisions of the Deficit Reduction Act increase the effective TANF work participation rate — a measure of the proportion of TANF recipients engaged in federally countable work activities for a prescribed number of hours each week — states will be required to meet. States failing to meet these new standards are subject to fiscal penalties. At the same time, the DRA does not address long-standing concerns among states and others that the TANF work … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/_NDHWMpokhU/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1189 Thu, 01 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1189 Overview Georgia’s success at increasing its TANF work participation rate has been touted as a welfare reform model for other states as they seek ways to meet the new work participation requirements associated with the Deficit Reduction Act changes to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. An examination of available data on Georgia’s TANF program and of the state’s policies and procedures, however, raises serious questions about whether the … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/XqvUIaGI7Bg/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=153 Tue, 06 Mar 2007 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=153 As states revisit their welfare reform approaches in the wake of the TANF changes in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA), a number of states have implemented or are considering policies that expand support to low-income working families, particularly those transitioning into employment and off of basic TANF assistance programs. In most states, families lose eligibility for TANF cash assistance at income levels that are well below the poverty line (and almost no state has eligibility … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/u3c5tePC65E/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=312 Thu, 24 May 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=312 The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), enacted in early 2006, reauthorized the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The effect of the DRA is to significantly increase the proportion of TANF recipients that states would be required to engage in a specified set of work activities for a federally-prescribed number of hours each week. The law also grants broad new regulatory authority to the Department of Health and Human Services — the federal agency that … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/2xslmJ4WTyw/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=441 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:00:00 -0400 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=441 Overview The final TANF rule implementing changes due to the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 was published in the Federal Register on February 5, 2008 at 73 Fed. Reg. 6772. The new rule finalizes, with some changes, the Interim Final Rule published on June 29, 2006. The Final Rule is effective October 1, 2008. The Deficit Reduction Act (DRA) provided HHS with broad new regulatory authority to define the work activities listed in the TANF statute, to craft rules on how states must count, track, … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/wOgORx81wcg/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1084 Wed, 20 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1084 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/1XhuBXhKTRA/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1291 Mon, 24 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=1291 The economic recovery legislation provides additional resources to states where more poor families need basic assistance due to the recession and the states have responded by serving more families in their TANF (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) programs. TANF is the welfare-reform block grant that the 1996 welfare law established to replace the old welfare system. Some critics, such as Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation, have charged that the TANF provisions of the recovery … http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/odzI-Ft2qRM/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2648 Tue, 17 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2648 The TANF provisions in section 2101 of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 create a new Emergency Contingency Fund under which states can receive 80 percent federal funding for increases (relative to a base year quarter) in certain TANF-related expenditures in federal fiscal years 2009 and 2010. States can access “emergency contingency funds” based on increased expenditures in each of three categories: basic assistance, non-recurrent short-term payments, and subsidized employment.… http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/CBPP-WelfareReform/tanf/~3/aokLcq-NM_s/ http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2693 Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0500 http://www.cbpp.org/cms/?fa=view&id=2693