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Table 5:1
Formulas for Computing Bonus Year Rates
Work-Related Measures
Job Entry Rate
This is a measure of the percent of the number of unduplicated unemployed adult recipients who entered employment for the first time during the performance year (i.e., Job Entries). An adult is considered to have entered employment for the first time in a calendar quarter if he/she had no earnings in any of the prior quarters of the performance year.
Sum of Job Entries in Quarters 1 through 4
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Unduplicated number of unemployed adult recipients in performance year
Job Retention Rate
This is a measure of the percent of the sum of the unduplicated number of employed adult recipients in each quarter of the performance year who were also employed in the first and second subsequent quarters. (At some point, the adult might have become a former recipient.)
Sum of employed adult recipients in each of Quarters 1 through 4 who continued employment in
both the first and second subsequent Quarters
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ x 100
Sum of unduplicated employed adult recipients in Quarters 1 through 4
Earnings Gain Rate
This is a measure of the rate of change in earnings of employed adult recipients who were employed in both an initial and the second subsequent quarter in each of the four quarters of the performance year.
Sum of total dollars earned in second subsequent Quarter in each of Quarters 1 through 4 minus sum of total dollars
earned in initial Quarter in each of Quarters 1 through 4 of adult recipients employed in both of these Quarters
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Sum of total dollars earned in initial quarter in each of Quarters 1 through 4
Success-in-the Workforce
This is a composite measurement of separate State ranking scores of the Retention and Earnings Gain rates for the performance year, as shown above. The ranks are equally weighted, combined, and then re-ranked.
Increase/Decrease in Job Entry Rate
This measure compares the percentage point change between the Job Entry Rate achieved in the performance year and the prior year.
Performance Year Job Entry Rate minus prior year Job Entry Rate
Increase/Decrease in Job Retention Rate
This measure compares the percentage point change between the Job Retention Rate achieved in the performance year and the prior year.
Performance Year Job Retention Rate minus prior year Job Retention Rate
Increase/Decrease in Earnings Gain Rate
This measure compares the percentage point change between the Earnings Gain Rate achieved in the performance year and the prior year.
Performance Year Earnings Gain Rate minus prior year Earnings Gain Rate
Increase/Decrease in Success in the Workforce
This is a composite measurement of the comparison of two separate State ranking scores—the percentage point change between the Job Retention Rate achieved in the performance year and the prior year, and the percentage point change between the Earnings Gain Rate achieved in the performance year and the prior year. Ranks are equally weighted, combined and then re-ranked.
Non-Work Measures
Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollment Rate
This is a measure of the number of recipients in the performance year who leave TANF and are enrolled in the Medicaid/SCHIP program both at the time of leaving and in the fourth month after leaving, as a percent of all recipients who leave TANF and were enrolled at time of leaving.
Sum of recipients in each of Quarters 1 through 4 who leave TANF and are enrolled in Medicaid/SCHIP both at
time of leaving and in the fourth month after leaving
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Total number of individuals who leave TANF who are enrolled in Medicaid/SCHIP at time of leaving TANF
Increase/Decrease in Medicaid Enrollment Rate
This measure compares the percentage point change between the Medicaid/SCHIP enrollment rate achieved in the performance year and in the prior year.
Performance Year Medicaid/SCHIP Enrollment Rate minus prior year Medicaid/Enrollment Rate
Food Stamp Rate
This is a measure of the percent of low-income working households with children under 18 in the performance year (calendar year) who participate in the Food Stamp program. Basic calendar year data were provided by the Bureau of the Census. The formula for the calculation is as follows:
Number of low-income working households with children under 18 participating in the Food Stamp program in the calendar year
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Total number of low-income working households with children under 18 in calendar year
Increase/Decrease in Food Stamp Participation Rate
This measure compares the percentage point change between the Food Stamp participation rate achieved in the performance year (calendar year) and the prior calendar year.
Calendar year Food Stamp Rate minus prior calendar year Food Stamp Rate
Child Care Subsidy Rate
This measure consists of three components for the performance year—the percent of eligible children served, the affordability of care for the families of the children as indicated by the relationship between the State’s reported CCDF (Child Care Development Fund) co-payments and the reported family income and a quality component measuring actual paid funds compared to State market rate survey. Each State’s year rank on this measure is a composite weighted score of the two components—the component on percent of children served having a weight of 6 and the family co-payment component having a weight of 4.
Child Care Accessibility Component:
Number of children served under the CCDF requirements
------------------------------------------------------------------------------ x 100
Number of children in the State eligible to receive CCDF services
Child Care Affordability Component:
The following comparison of assessed family co-payment to family income in the performance year was computed across four income ranges. The income ranges are: 1) income below the poverty level; 2) income at least 100 percent and below 125 percent of poverty; 3) income at least 125 percent and below 150 percent of poverty; 4) income at least 150 percent and below 175 percent of poverty.
Reported assessed family performance year co-payment
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Reported family income across all four income ranges
Also incorporated in the affordability rate is the following computation:
Number of potentially-eligible children served with CCDF funds in performance year
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Number of eligible children under the Federal criteria in performance year
Child Care Quality Component:
Actual amount paid with CCDF funds for children receiving subsidies
---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Local market rates from the State
Increase/Decrease in Family Formation and Stability Rate
Bonuses are awarded only to the ten States with the greatest percentage point improvement on this measure. For the bonus year, this measure compares the percentage point change between the Family Formation and Stability rate achieved in the performance year (calendar year) and the prior calendar year.
The formula for computing the rate for the performance year is:
Number of children who reside in married couple families
------------------------------------------------------------------------- x 100
Number of married couple families
The formula for computing the percentage point improvement rate is:
Calendar year performance rate minus the prior calendar year performance rate
