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Introduction and Background
This publication, The Welfare Rules Databook, provides tables containing key Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policies for each state as of July 2004, as well as longitudinal tables describing selected state policies from 1996 through 2004. The tables are based on the information in the Welfare Rules Database (WRD), a publicly available, online database originally developed under the Urban Institute’s Assessing the New Federalism project.
The Databook is divided into five groups of tables: initial eligibility in 2004; benefits in 2004; requirements in 2004; ongoing eligibility in 2004; and policies across time, 1996–2004. Each chapter begins with an overview of the policies, followed by details relating to specific tables.
The Databook summarizes the detailed information in the WRD. Users interested in a greater level of detail are encouraged to use the full database, available at http://anfdata.urban.org/wrd. This site includes a point-and-click interface, as well as documentation.
The following sections discuss the background and structure of the WRD, and the contents and structure of the tables in this book.
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