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Index page for the Work Participaton Rates - Fiscal Year 2008.

Index page for the Work Participaton Rates - Fiscal Year 2007.

Questions and Answers:  Work Participation Rate

This Information Memorandum transmits the FY 2009 work participation rates. All States were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2008 through September 2009. The FY 2009 national average overall work participation rate was 29.4 percent. Five States, the District of Columbia, and two Territories failed to meet their overall work participation rate requirements. The FY 2009 national average two-parent families work participation rate was 28.3 percent. Six States and one Territory failed to meet their two-parent families work participation requirement. (Twenty-four States, the District of Columbia, and two Territories were not subject to the two-parent work participation requirement due to the manner in which they structured their programs.) The attached tables provide detailed State-by-State information regarding work participation rates and standards, caseload reduction credits, the number of work-eligible individuals, and activities in which individuals participated.

This Program Instruction requests that States submit data necessary to calculate the work measures previously reported under the High Performance Bonus (HPB) and advise them of the submission timetable for FY 2012.

This Information Memorandum informs states that they can download from our website the Statistical Analysis System (SAS) programs and documentation files that will enable a State to calculate its monthly work participation rates from its quarterly transmission files.

This report provides ACF with the information necessary to calculate a State’s caseload reduction credit.

This Information Memorandum provides a TANF Data Report and SSP-MOE Data Report that have been revised as follows: (1) to correct the definition of a two-parent family; (2) to correct and clarify guidance on the work-eligible individual indicator; and (3) to clarify coding of the data elements “Type of Family for Work Participation” and “Work-Eligible Individual Indicator.”