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To provide States and other interested parties with information regarding JOBS participation rates for overall AFDC recipients and separately for AFDC- unemployed parents (UP).
The purpose of this initiative is to create neighborhood-based programs to move families residing in public housing and the adjacent neighborhood from welfare to self-sufficiency.
This memorandum transmits the AFDC Quality Control (QC) active payment error rate tables and the negative case actions error rate table for Fiscal Year (FY) 1994. The national FY '94 overpayment error rate is 6.11 percent, a 0.5 percent increase from the 6.08 percent error rate attained in FY '93. A State-by-State comparison of the FY '94 overpayment error rates with the FY '93 error rates shows that 17 States decreased their error rates and 37 States increased their error rates. In addition to the overpayment error rates, the tables list the standard errors for FY '94 payment error rates and the amount of Federal and State misspent funds in FY '94 nationally and by State. The national underpayment error rate for FY '94 is 1.14 percent, a 22 percent increase from FY '93. The national negative case action rate for FY '94 is 2.93 percent, a 21 percent decrease from FY '93.