What We Do
The Public Assistance Reporting Information System (PARIS) is a federal-state partnership that insures the integrity of public assistance programs through detecting and deterring improper payments. PARIS works with all U.S. states and territories to assist them in maintaining the honorable intentions of public programs. The federal-state partnership is voluntary in nature and provides state public assistance agencies (SPAAs) with a method to compare their data with data from other SPAAs and ACF’s federal partners to assist in detecting and preventing duplicative pay and improper payments.
FAQs
Answers to frequently-asked questions regarding the PARIS program.
Board of Directors
Formed in 1998, the PARIS Board of Directors meets regularly to discuss matching across state and federal databases and ways to improve the PARIS system.
PARIS Contacts
Contacts for various PARIS-related questions or concerns. Includes the ACF and Technical contacts, as well as the respective Regional Board Members, State Administrators, and Interstate Contacts for each state.
History
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) works with state public assistance agencies (SPAAs) and other federal agencies to develop information-sharing projects to verify the circumstances of public assistance clients. ACF identifies information-sharing opportunities and coordinates activities to take advantage of those opportunities
Charter
The PARIS Board of Directors fosters a federal-state partnership approach to the technical support activities for PARIS state public assistance agencies (SPAAs).