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Findings Available
Interim Impact Findings
Final Impact Findings
Findings
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06/01/96:
To Strengthen Michigan’s Families (TSMF) Evaluation: Fourth Annual Report: Third-Year Impacts
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Interim Impact Findings:
"TSMF has significantly increased the employment and earnings, and reduced the welfare participation and payments, of families who were on welfare when the program was started in October 1992. The program has had mixed results for families certified for welfare after that date, having little effect on those entering TSMF in its first year of operations, and reducing welfare participation and payments among those entering in the second year" (i).
"Although the program was designed to increase clients’ employment and earnings, and to decrease welfare participation and payments in turn, these effects might take some time to develop...Its impacts may also depend upon the time at which clients were first exposed to its policies" (14-15).
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01/01/97:
To Strengthen Michigan's Families (TSMF) Evaluation: Final Impact Report
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Final Impact Findings:
"TSMF continued to increase adults’ employment and earnings after four years and increased the last group’s employment by the end of one year"(v).
"TSMF reduced welfare participation in all the research groups and reduced benefits for ongoing families and the middle group of families"(vi).
"Adults in TSMF were generally more likely to combine work and welfare, and less likely to remain on welfare without working"(vii).
"TSMF generally caused Medicaid eligibility to increase for adults in two-parent families"(vii).
"TSMF increased total family income for ongoing families"(vii).
"TSMF generally had no impacts on foster care placements or child abuse and neglect"(vii).
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05/01/95:
To Strengthen Michigan's Families (TSMF) Evaluation: Third Annual Report: Second Year Impacts
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Interim Impact Findings
- After the end of two years of client exposure, TSMF had caused an increase in adult employment (irrespective of welfare status), a reduction in welfare participation and payments, and an increase in combining work and welfare.
- Specifically, for the group of cases active on welfare when TSMF was implemented ("ongoing cases"), the study found that after two years TSMF caused:
- an increase in adult employment
- a reduction in AFDC, SFA and Food Stamp Program participation
- a reduction in AFDC, SFA, and food stamp benefits
- a reduction Medicaid eligibility for adults in two-parent families
- a decrease in Medicaid eligibility for children
- an increase in the proportion of families on welfare who work
- a decrease in the proportion of adults on welfare without working
- an increase in the proportion of adults off welfare and working
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