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Part II: Program Description and Performance Analysis
ACF's performance measures support the seven strategic program objectives and one management improvement objective in this plan. This approach establishes a framework for individual programs to collaborate and direct their efforts to achieve ACF-wide crosscutting goals and enables ACF partners (state, Territorial, Tribal, and local governments – as well as in private, nonprofit, faith- and community-based organizations) to invest program resources targeted on achieving shared outcomes.
ACF’s performance goals align with the mission of HHS as reflected in the HHS Strategic Plan, as indicated in Appendix A.1. Performance data for the ACF goals have been supplemented as appropriate by information from program research and evaluation. Appendix A.6 provides a listing of selected evaluation projects.
STRATEGIC GOAL I: INCREASE ECONOMIC INDEPENDENCE AND PRODUCTIVITY FOR FAMILIES
RATIONALE
A family’s capacity to lead a stable and productive life is enhanced by increasing economic independence and self-sufficiency. Achieving this goal requires assisting those in need to obtain and maintain employment within the context of work requirements and time-limited assistance. The job market, economic cycles, changing demographics, and patterns of family formation and child bearing affect outcomes under this goal. These economic and social factors influence parents' ability to find employment, meet their family's needs and support obligations, and achieve self-sufficiency.
The President's welfare reauthorization proposal provides tools for ACF and its state partners to build on the successes of the 1996 reforms, including initiatives for demonstrations and research to promote healthy marriage, strengthen work participation requirements, and increase funding flexibility for states. Initiatives that promote responsible fatherhood, encourage the formation and maintenance of married, two-parent families, and prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies are critical building blocks leading to greater family stability and self-sufficiency. Child support enforcement and affordable child care are critical to assuring that children are not living in poverty and that they are adequately cared for while their parents are at jobs.
An increase of $40 million for research and technical assistance and grants to support Family Formation will be used to broaden efforts to support healthy marriages and promote effective family formation. The FY 2005 request for the Unaccompanied Alien Children program for an increase of $1.4 million increase will support the new programmatic requirements contained in Section 462 of the Homeland Security Act. The FY 2005 request for Transitional and Medical Services is an increase of $24.6 million from the FY 2004 conference level. The FY 2005 increase provides necessary funding to continue to provide eight months of cash and medical assistance to eligible refugees, entrants, asylees, and trafficking victims, as well as foster care services to the same population until emancipation.
OBJECTIVES AND MAJOR PROGRAM AREAS
- Increase employment
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Employment Refugee Resettlement Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) - Increase independent living
Assets for Independence - Increase parental responsibility
Child Support - Increase affordable child care
Child Care: Affordability
1. INCREASE EMPLOYMENT
Approach for the Strategic Objective: Increase employment and economic independence by reducing reliance on public welfare programs, providing job training and other necessary supports, and encouraging job creation. Focus on the abilities and skills of individuals, enabling them to move toward self-sufficiency and to pursue jobs in their communities.
1.1 TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES: EMPLOYMENT
| Request, Full Costs, & Annual Measures ($ in millions)1 |
FY 2003 | FY 2004 | FY 2005 |
| Budget Request (Program Level) | $17,037.4 | $19,621.8 | $17,154.6 |
| Estimated Full Cost | $17,054.1 | $19,639.1 | $17,173.1 |
| Program Goal: Increase Employment Incorporates measures: FY 2003: 1.a-g FY 2004-2005: CommonPerformance Measures 1.1c-f |
$16,371.9 | $18,853.5 | $16,486.2 |
| 1 The FY 2003-2005 estimates are based on outlays, not budget authority, because they are a better predictor of state expenditures in this program. (back) | |||
* The distribution of full costs to performance measures may not equal the full cost of the performance program area.
ALLOCATION METHODOLOGY EXPLANATION: Includes costs associated with payments and benefits to adults to promote marriage and adults subject to employment requirements, i.e., education and training or work supports such as child care and transportation (overall 96%). TANF assistance payments to child-only cases living with a non-parent relative (kinship care) were not included (because these cases do not include individual responsibility or self-sufficiency) plans. This represents 12.8% of TANF assistance payments or 4% of total TANF costs.
PROGRAM DESCRIPTION AND CONTEXT
The purposes of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program are to provide assistance to needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes; to reduce dependency by promoting job readiness, employment, and marriage; to prevent out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and to encourage the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Title IV-A of the Social Security Act as amended by the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) requires that states and Territories administer programs, and Tribes have the option to administer their own programs. States, Territories, and Tribes each receive a block grant allocation with a requirement for states to maintain a historical level of state spending (for welfare) known as Maintenance of Effort (MOE). The block grant covers benefits, administrative expenses, and services. States, Territories, and Tribes determine eligibility and benefit levels as well as services provided to needy families.
PRWORA dramatically changed the nation's welfare system into one that requires employment while time-limiting assistance. The TANF program replaced the former Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS), and Emergency Assistance (EA) programs, ending the Federal entitlement to assistance.
The Administration seeks to reauthorize and fund the following pre-appropriated activities originally authorized under PRWORA as part of the TANF program at the levels included under current law: Family Assistance Grants to States, Tribes, and Territories; Matching Grants to Territories; Bonus to Reward High Performance States; Tribal Work Programs; and the Contingency Fund. Supplemental Grants for Population Increases would be reinstated. In addition, a new fund supporting research, demonstration, and technical assistance activities including family formation, healthy marriages, child welfare research, and reducing the incidence of out-of-wedlock birth (as well as a matching grant program on marriage promotion) would be established.
ACF provides leadership to help states, Territories, and Tribes as they design and implement their programs and move families from welfare to work (employment), while protecting the well-being of children through child care and other services. PRWORA gives states flexibility to design their TANF programs in ways that promote work, responsibility and self-sufficiency, and strengthen families. The law limits the area that the Federal government may regulate, allowing states to use TANF funding in any manner "reasonably calculated to accomplish the purposes of TANF."
The central theme of the 1996 welfare reform legislation was moving families from welfare to work. In addition to providing states with flexibility in program design and funding, Congress established work participation performance standards and created a High Performance Bonus (HPB) incentive system to facilitate the achievement of this goal. PRWORA provides states and Territories both financial rewards for high performance and significant improvement and penalties for not meeting the work participation targets. The HPB legislation authorized awards for five years (FY 1999 – FY 2003).
ACF monitors state efforts in this critical area through two monitoring vehicles. States report detailed case level data on recipient participation in work or work related activities. States collect this information monthly and report it quarterly via the TANF Data Report system. ACF provides ongoing feedback to states on the participation rates they are achieving as well as information on the quality of their data. The second mechanism is through the HPB system. Although states’ participation in this system is voluntary, forty-nine states and the District of Columbia provided FY 2000 performance data to compete in the FY 2001 HPB performance awards. This information is critical to understanding the nature and scope of employment activity of TANF recipients and former recipients. Performance goals 1c, 1d, and 1e are related to High Performance Bonuses.
ACF selected outcomes that measure state investment and policy choices directed at supporting individuals to succeed in their jobs. Strategic activities were developed to meet these targets including the following bonuses to reward states for high performance:
- Job entry
- Job retention
- Earnings gain
- Food Stamp Program participation
- Medicaid/SCHIP Program participation
- Family formation and stability
Under PRWORA, $100 million in annual bonuses are awarded to as many as five states with the largest reduction in the proportion of out-of-wedlock births to total births. As part of the TANF reauthorization, the President has proposed eliminating these bonuses in order to focus efforts on the TANF goals addressing family formation and healthy marriage (see section 6.3). Other strategic activities include an aggressive technical assistance approach using contracts and grants; aggressive outreach and collaboration with key Federal and non-Federal partners; review and analysis of state programs and fiscal data to identify emerging trends; promotion and dissemination of research results; and publication of regulations.
ACF implements a wide range of projects to help states and Tribes produce the desired outcomes. These projects include:
- Convening state and Tribal leaders to educate them about the specifics of the law and offering them the opportunity to engage other state or Tribal stakeholders designing their respective programs;
- Providing technical assistance through contracts and grants, including a Peer Technical Assistance Network that provides support to states, Tribes, and localities to share expertise and proven experiences;
- Supporting initiatives to increase the availability of jobs for TANF recipients both in the private and public sectors, including Federal entry-level jobs;
- Developing a catalog and other sources of innovative practices, and convening workshops and conferences to provide targeted technical assistance;
- Sponsoring research and convening conferences to discuss welfare reform research; and
- Conducting and encouraging training on the need for welfare agencies to draw on the broader resources of other government agencies, the private sector, and community-based organizations.
Program Partnerships
ACF has expanded its development of partnerships since the passage of the PRWORA. The 1996 legislation created a seismic shift throughout the welfare system by focusing on employment, transferring authority over specific policy decisions (e.g. eligibility and determining benefits) from the Federal government to the states, and creating state accountability through data collection/reporting, penalties, and rewards. ACF shifted from its traditional Federal regulatory role and forged new partnerships, adopting a customer-driven focus using new tools to underscore state flexibility while reinforcing accountability.
ACF formed broad-based partnerships with the states, reaching beyond state welfare agencies to state Governors and legislatures to help them with their key role as TANF decision-makers. These partnerships are designed to provide support for state efforts to develop effective services for their TANF recipients through guidance, technical assistance, facilitating communication among states, and research. ACF continues to draw in new partners.
ACF has also developed relationships and formed collaborations with other government agencies and outside organizations to implement initiatives that support family self-sufficiency and the well-being of children. For example, ACF developed and funded an initiative with the Internal Revenue Service and the National Organization of Black County Officials to increase participation in the earned income tax credit by families exiting welfare for work. Many low-income working families are eligible for the tax credit and do not know it. Promotion of the earned income tax credit is part of an overall strategy to help social service programs move families to self-sufficiency.
Many families that remain on welfare are struggling with multiple barriers to employment such as learning disabilities and substance abuse. ACF has partnered with some of its sister agencies within HHS such as the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration and the Office of Civil Rights as well as other Departments (such as Education) in developing technical assistance to assist our state partners. We also work with the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation on a variety of research projects and disseminate the results to states to assist in critical program design decisions.
PROGRAM PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS
| Performance Measures | Targets | Actual Performance | Reference (Relevant Strategic Goal in HHS Strategic Plan) |
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| 1.1a. All states meet the TANF all-families work participation rates:
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FY 03: 100% FY 02: 100% FY 01: 100% FY 00: 100% FY 99: 100% |
FY 03: 9/04 FY 02: 100% FY 01: 100% FY 00: 100% FY 99: 100% FY 98: 100% |
HHS 6.1 |
| 1.1b. All states meet the TANF two parent families work participation rate of 90% | FY 02: 100% FY 01: 100% FY 00: 100% FY 99: 100% |
FY 02: 83% FY 01: 85% FY 00: 76% FY 99: 74% FY 98: 66% |
HHS 6.1 |
| The reauthorization proposal replaces these two separate standards with a single participation standard for all cases with adults. | |||
| 1.1c. Increase (from the baseline year) the percentage of adult TANF recipients who become newly employed. | FY 03: 44% FY 02: 43% FY 01: 43% FY 00: 42% FY 99: NA |
FY 03: 9/04 FY 02: 36% FY 01: 33% FY 00: 46.4% FY 99: 43.3% (42.9%) FY 98: 38.7% (baseline) |
HHS 6.1 |
| The number in parentheses has been updated as a result of additional data. | |||
| 1.1d. Increase (from FY 2000) the percentage of adult TANF recipients/former recipients employed in one quarter of the year who continue to be employed in the next two consecutive quarters. | FY 03: 68% FY 02: 65% FY 01: 84% (64%) FY 00: 83% (63%) FY 99: NA |
FY 03: 9/04 FY 02: 59% FY 01: 63% FY 00: 65% FY 99: 76.8%* (58%) FY 98: 80%* |
HHS6.1 |
| *For FY 98-99,
this measure was limited to job retention over one subsequent quarter.
The numbers in parentheses indicate what the rate was over two subsequent quarters for comparison purposes. |
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| 1.1e. Increase (from the baseline year) the percentage rate of earnings gained by employed adult TANF recipients/former recipients between a base quarter and the second subsequent quarter. | FY 03: 29% FY 02: 28% FY 01: 28% FY 00: 27% FY 99: NA |
FY
03: 9/04 FY 02: 33% FY 01: 26% FY 00: 25% FY 99: 27% (22%) FY 98: 24% (baseline) |
HHS6.1 |
| The number in
parentheses for FY 1999 was based on incomplete data and has been
revised. The three measures 1.1c-e are being replaced in FY 2004 by the common measures which are in the chart below: |
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| 1.1g. Increase the rate of case closures related to employment. [O] (Developmental) | FY 05: FY 04: TBD |
FY 05: FY 04: FY 03: Baseline |
HHS 6.1 |
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of FULL COSTS ASSOCIATED WITH ABOVE MEASURES FY 2003: 96% (includes costs associated with payments and benefits to adults to promote marriage or who are employed and/or participating in work activities, child care, and transportation); OTHER: 4 % (includes TANF assistance to child-only cases living with a non-parent relative (kinship care). |
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| Total Funding
(dollars in millions)
See detailed Budget Linkage Table in Appendix A.12 for line items included in funding totals. |
FY 05: $17,186.6
FY 04: $19,669.6 FY 03: $17,031.6 FY 02: $17,135.6 FY 01: $16,689.2 FY 00: $16,818.4 FY 99: $17,186.2 |
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JOB TRAINING COMMON PERFORMANCE MEASURES (CPM)
There are more than 48 job training programs in 10 Federal Departments. Although these programs vary considerably in the types of services provided and the target populations served, their common goal is to improve participants' employment and earnings. ACF and HHS have worked with the Office of Management and Budget, and the Departments of Labor, Education, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, and Veteran's Affairs to develop a common set of measures for job training and employment for adults, youth, and lifelong learning programs. The definitions and methodology for providing the TANF data for these measures are identified. Data for these three measures (entered employment, retention in employment, earnings increase) will be provided by Unemployment Insurance (UI) wage records and administrative records will be used for the efficiency measure. These measures will be tracked beginning in FY 2004. Preliminary data suggest lower performance scores by calculating the rates via the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) vs. the states' calculation i.e., where they had flexibility in the data source. We are using the NDNH to ensure uniformity and consistency in the calculation.
| Performance Measures | Targets | Actual Performance | Reference (Relevant Strategic Goal in HHS Strategic Plan) |
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| ENTERED
EMPLOYMENT: 1.1c Percentage of adult recipients who become newly employed. [O] |
FY 05: 37% FY 04: 44% |
FY 05: FY 04: |
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| Methodology: The numerator is "of those who receive TANF cash assistance in a quarter, the number who became employed in that quarter after being unemployed in the previous quarter." The denominator is "the total number of unemployed TANF cash assistance recipients from the previous quarter identified in the numerator." | |||
| RETENTION
IN EMPLOYMENT: 1.1d Percentage of those employed in a quarter that were still employed one and two quarters later.[O] |
FY 05: 67% FY 04: 65% |
FY 05: FY 04: |
HHS 6.1 |
| Methodology: The numerator is "of those who received TANF cash assistance and are employed in a quarter (Q-a), the number of adults who were employed one (Q-b) and two quarters (Q-c) later (regardless of TANF assistance status).” The denominator is "the number of participants employed in Q-a.” | |||
EARNINGS
INCREASE: (a) Percent increase between first quarter of employment and the second quarter prior to receiving TANF assistance. (b) Percent increase in earnings between the third quarter of employment and the first quarter of employment. |
(a) FY 05: FY 04: TBD (b) |
(a) FY 05: FY 04: (b) |
HHS 6.1 |
| Methodology: (a) The numerator includes those who received TANF cash assistance with earnings from employment in a quarter (Q-a), their earnings in Q-a minus their earnings two quarters prior to being determined eligible for TANF cash assistance. The denominator is TANF cash assistance recipients' earnings two quarters prior to being determined eligible for TANF cash assistance. (b) The numerator includes those who received TANF cash assistance and who had earnings from employment in a quarter (Q-a), their earnings two quarters (Q-c) later minus their earnings in Q-a. The denominator is TANF cash assistance recipients' earnings in Q-a. | |||
| PROGRAM
EFFICIENCY: 1.1f Annual cost per adult recipient [E] |
FY 05: TBD | FY 05: FY 04: Baseline |
HHS 6.1 EFFICIENCY MEASURE |
| Methodology: The numerator is the total Federal TANF and state maintenance of effort (MOE) expenditures on work-related activities/expenses, transportation, and a proportional amount on administration and systems. The denominator is the number of adult TANF recipients. | |||
| COSTS
ASSOCIATED WITH MEASURES 1.1a-f % OF FULL COSTS FY 04-05: 96% (includes costs associated with assistance payments to adults who are employed and/or participating in work activities, child care, and transportation, etc. (see chart below)); OTHER: 4 % includes payments to child-only cases living with a non-parent relative (kinship care) |
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Summary of Program Performance
Record numbers of people are moving from welfare to work. Retention rates are promising and all states met the overall work participation requirements in FY 2001. Since the August 1996 passage of the law, recipient caseloads are down by 64 percent. From September 2001 to September 2002, the number of recipients declined 5.5 percent from 5.4 million to approximately 5.1 million. These gains still leave too many clients with below-poverty incomes without work or in entry-wage jobs making it difficult to support families. Often, parents with jobs lack the necessary supports that will enable them to succeed in the workforce, such as access to affordable, quality child care, transportation, and training opportunities. Welfare reform has been less effective in addressing the needs of clients with multiple barriers to work such as inadequate fluency in English, mental health problems, addiction to alcohol or drugs, developmental and learning disabilities, and domestic violence. Increasingly, state agencies are reporting that the proportion of clients with these barriers is growing.
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[D] |
ACF’s ability to affect goal achievement is limited by the fact that much of the responsibility for welfare reform lies with states and Tribes, and in a number of cases with counties and cities. ACF works in partnership with state, Tribal, and local governments toward achieving the goal of increased employment for TANF recipients.
Data Quality/Availability: Beginning with performance in FY 2001, the employment measures (job entry |newly employed|, job retention and earnings gain) are based solely on performance data obtained from the National Directory of New Hires (NDNH). Under HPB specifications for performance years FY 1998, FY 1999 and FY 2000, states had flexibility in the data source(s) they used to obtain wage information on current and former TANF recipients. ACF moved to this single source national database (NDNH) to ensure equal access to wage data and uniform application of the performance specifications. Performance achieved for FY 2001 and 2002 may have been affected by this change in data source. For example, ACF now has access to Federal employment wage data, which was not generally available to states earlier. Also, because changes in employment status during a quarter can not be identified in the quarterly wage data on the NDNH database, a state may have had to identify employment status changes monthly through use of its administrative records.
Measure by Measure Presentation of Performance
Achieving economic independence for many TANF families begins with either direct job search or overcoming barriers to employment (e.g., lack of basic skills) and progresses to acquiring job experiences, a private sector job, increased wages, and eventually self-sufficiency. These three key elements: getting a job, retaining the job, and increased earnings are the bases of our performance measures. ACF’s efforts are directed to provide leadership and incentives to states to accomplishing these outcomes.
| Work Participation
FY 2003 Plan |
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| 1.1a | All states meet the TANF all-families work participation rate of 50 percent. |
| 1.1b. | All states meet the TANF two
parent families work participation rate of 90 percent. Data Source: TANF Administrative Data |
Congress established the TANF work participation performance targets for FY 1997 through FY 2002. Beginning in FY 1997, the actual all-family and two-parent family participation rates achieved increased significantly each year until FY 2000, when there was an 11 percent decline in the national average rates. (Some of the decline in the all-family rate is attributed to the increase in the all-family minimum hours of weekly participation from 25 to 30 hours.) From FY 1998 through FY 2002, all states met the all-families work participation rates. In the same time frame, there has also been a steady increase in the percentage of states (from 66 percent to 85 percent) meeting the more rigorous two-parent work participation rate. The statute provides for the reduction of the minimum work participation standards/targets (currently 50 percent for the all family rate and 90 percent for two-parent family rate) based on the percentage reduction in a state’s TANF caseload since 1995. Given the significant decline in the TANF caseload, a number of states meet the all family and two-parent participation rates as a result of this caseload reduction credit.
A few states continue to have difficulty meeting the two-parent rate. States have the option to move their two-parent cases into a separate state program thus avoiding the two-parent work participation requirements. The statutory two-parent participation target of 90 percent remains a rigorous standard. Under pending reauthorization legislation, a single all-family rate starting at 50 percent would be established, but it would also require recipients to participate in more hours directly related to earning. At least 50 percent of all cases receiving TANF that are headed by adults would be required to participate full-time in a simulated “job-week” of activities (40 hours per week) and at least 24 hours of the 40 hours would have to be in a traditional earning activity.
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[D] |
Job Training Common Performance
Measures (CPM)
The initiative to define a common set of work performance measures across
Departments has not substantially changed the focus or the goals of the
existing TANF work performance measures (High Performance Bonus). The
exception is the earnings gain measure (1.1e) where we will continue to
track the previous measure (measurement of earnings after the adult recipient
entered TANF and reflecting the impact of any interventions on future
earnings) while adding a second dimension. Under this revised earnings
gain measure, we will measure the amount of earnings of current adult
recipients in the quarter before they entered TANF and in the current
quarter. This measure would not require that adults have earnings in both
the pre and post quarters. One of the basic assumptions of the common
measures is a defined entrance into and exit from a training program/intervention.
The measurement point entry for TANF is the beginning receipt of TANF
assistance, which may not coincide with entrance into or exit from a training
program. Since ACF does not have previous data on the earnings gain measure
as constructed under the common measures, the FY 2004 data collection
for this measure will constitute the baseline to establish targets. The
efficiency measure will require the collection of baseline data in FY
2004.
High Performance Bonus Measures
(HPB)
Performance data for FY 2002 measures 1.1c – e, calculated using
the NDNH, are below performance scores achieved in the prior year. While
NDNH data insure a national measurement standard, NDNH may preclude identifying
certain employment in this system that was previously available to the
states. The establishment of work participation standards with associated
penalties for not meeting the standards, as well as bonus awards for high
performance in obtaining and advancing in jobs provides a high visibility
and incentive for achieving these performance goals.
| 1.1c | Increase (from the baseline year) the percentage
of adult TANF recipients who become newly employed. (HPB/CPM) Data Sources: Unemployment Insurance (UI) Wage Records and National Directory of New Hires (NDNH) |
In FY 2002 (the most recent year for which final data are available), there was a 3 percentage point increase in the percent of adult TANF recipients who became newly employed (job entry). This success states had in moving TANF recipients to work is attributed to several factors including the employment focus of PRWORA, our commitment to research, the identification and dissemination of information on the effects of alternative employment strategies, a range of targeted technical assistance efforts, and a strong economy.
The newly employed (job entry) measure targets for FY 2001 through FY 2003 reflect performance estimates before we implemented the use of a single data source, NDNH, for the work performance measures. The use of the NDNH appears to significantly affect only the job entry measure. Based on preliminary data, we established the FY 2005 target below the targets for the prior years but above the performance states achieved in FY 2002.
| 1.1d. | Increase (from FY 2001) the percentage of
adult TANF recipients/former recipients employed in a quarter that
were still employed one and two quarters later. (HPB/CPM) Data Source: NDNH and UI Wage Records |
In FY 2002, there was a decrease of 4 percentage points in the percent of adult TANF recipients employed in one quarter who continued to be employed (employment retention) in the next two consecutive quarters (versus employment in the subsequent quarter). The actual performance for FY 1998 and FY 1999 was based on job retention performance over just one quarter (TANF adult recipients/former recipients employed in one quarter of the year who were also employed in the following quarter). While ACF changed this measure beginning FY 2000, the third year of the HPB, and subsequent years to a more rigorous measure--from retention over two quarters to retention over three quarters, it did not change the performance targets. Subsequently ACF changed the projections for FY 2000 and FY 2001 based on these new calculations (63 percent and 64 percent). The final job retention rate for FY 2000 was 65 percent. The performance targets for FY 2004 and 2005 were calculated from a preliminary FY 2001 rate of 62 percent.
| FY 2004-2005 Plan | ||
| 1.1e | The percentage change in earnings at two points in time by employed adult TANF recipients/former recipients. (CPM) (Modified) | |
| (a) | The percentage change in earnings between the first quarter of employment and the second quarter prior to receiving TANF assistance by employed TANF recipients/former recipients (under development). | |
| (b) | The percentage increase in earnings between
the third quarter of employment and the first quarter of employment
by employed TANF recipients/former recipients. Data Source: NDNH and UI Wage Records |
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Plan for Obtaining Earnings Information Pre and Post TANF Enrollment: states do not currently collect employment/wage data on potential TANF participants before enrollment in the program. To obtain such information, ACF will develop recipient matching protocols in order to do a series of matches on the quarterly lists of adult recipients states currently provide to compete on the High Performance Bonus. These matches are necessary to identify TANF adult recipients who are recipients in the measurement quarter(s) but not in the previous quarter. ACF will consult with states regarding their ability to provide recipient information for the prior quarters before enrollment. In order to implement this measure, ACF will modify the matching and wage compilation/calculation programs now used.
Former measure:
| FY 2003 Plan | |
| 1.1e | Increase (from the baseline year) the percentage
rate of earnings gained by employed adult TANF recipients/former recipients
between a base quarter and the second subsequent quarter. (HPB) Data Source: NDNH and UI Wage Records |
For this measure, ACF used the earnings of those who are employed in each of the four quarters of the measurement year and determined if they continue to be employed in the second subsequent quarter. If they are employed in both quarters, ACF determined the gain in earnings (if any) between the initial quarter and the second subsequent quarter. The sum of these gains in earnings across the four quarters is the numerator. The denominator is the sum of the earnings in each of the four quarters in the measurement year.
The FY 1999 performance was revised as a result of inclusion of new data from Nebraska and New Mexico. These states did not compete for the FY 2000 HPB awards but provided FY 1999 performance data in order to compete for the FY 2001 work improvement measures (which compare FY 1999 and FY 2000 performance information).
In FY 2002, there was an increase of 7 percentage points in the percent rate of earnings gained between the base quarter and the second subsequent quarter (employment earnings gain rate).
| FY 2004-2005 PLAN | |
| 1.1f | Annual cost per adult recipient.
(CPM) Data Source: TANF Administrative Records |
This measure is under development. The numerator is the total Federal TANF and state maintenance of effort (MOE) expenditures on work-related activities/expenses, transportation, and a proportional amount on administration and systems. The denominator is the number of adult TANF recipients.
PROGRAM GOAL – PROGRAM EXIT
| FY 2004-2005 PLAN | |
| 1.1g. | Increase the rate of case closures related
to employment, receipt of child support and marriage (New –
Developmental). Data Source: TANF Data Report |
The TANF measures, taken together, assess state success in moving recipients from welfare to work and self-sufficiency. Full success requires not only getting recipients into jobs, but also keeping them in those jobs and increasing their earnings in order to reduce dependency and enable families to support themselves. Caseload decline provides information on the number of families leaving TANF, but it does not indicate the number of families that are more self-sufficient as a result of employment. This developmental measure will track the rate of case closures related to employment, as well as marriage and the receipt of child support, which generally reflect the earnings of others.
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