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Program Components, Policies, and Activities Evaluated
Employment activities
- Job skills training
- Job readiness activities
- Job search
- Job placement
- On the job training
- Work supplementation programs
- Self-employment
Educational activities
- Adult Basic Education (ABE) courses
- English as a Second Language (ESL)
- GED courses
- High school completion
- Post-secondary education
- Educational Activities - misc.
Financial incentives
- Earnings disregards
- Elimination of 100 hour rule
- Excluding the value of one vehicle
- Lower benefit reduction rate
- Deductions for business investments leading to self-employment
- Financial Incentives - misc.
Financial disincentives/Sanctions
- Reduced benefits for non-compliance
- Strengthened JOBS sanctions
Program requirements
- Work requirement
- Community or alternative work
- Parenting or social contract
- Immunizations for children
Eligibility
Food stamps
Administration/Implementation
- Administration/Implementation - misc.
| Variation in program components across sites? |
No
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| Notes on program components |
Changes in eligibility: Two parent families only have to meet financial criteria for AFDC to be eligible for both AFDC and Medicaid.
Educational activities: Adult basic education, English as a second language, GED courses, high school completion, post-secondary education, and school readiness activities are offered.
Employment activities: Strengthened JOBS participation requirements. Adult welfare recipients must enter into a "Social Contract" under which they agree to engage in personally and/or socially useful activities for at least 20 hours/week. Participants who do not fulfill the Contract may be referred to a job training program for welfare clients, the Michigan Opportunity and Skills Training (MOST) Program. Mandatory employment, education and/or training services. Strong emphasis on job search and immediate job placement.
Financial disincentives/sanctions: Family grant reduced by 25% for non-compliance with work requirements. Case may be closed if individual is non-compliant for one year. Family grant reduced by $25/month for non-compliance with age-appropriate immunization requirements for pre-school children.
Financial incentives: AFDC children can earn and save without affecting program benefits. For working adults, the first $200/month of gross earnings plus 20% of the remainder is disregarded for as long as they combine work and welfare.
Food stamps: Roughly equivalent rules regarding sanctions, self-employment expenses and vehicle exclusions to the Food Stamp Program.
Program operations: Program implementation is studied.
Program requirements: Recipients are required to immunize children and engage in community or alternative work.
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