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Project Description

Welfare Time Limits: State Policies, Implementation, and Effects on Families provides a comprehensive summary of what has been learned to date about time limits: about state policies, their implementation, the effects of time limits on employment and welfare receipt, and the circumstances of families whose welfare cases have been closed because they reached a time limit. It is designed to serve as a resource as Congress considers reauthorization of PRWORA. The project consists of three activities: (1) a survey of state welfare administrators to obtain information on states' time-limit policies and experiences to date; (2) site visits to five states to examine the implementation of time limits; and (3) a synthesis of research on time limits conducted to date.

Project duration: Jan 2002 - Jul 2002

Sites studied include Nationwide

Sample Characteristics and Sites Studied

Survey: distributed to all 50 states; Site visits: 5 states

Recent Findings in Brief

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