State Policy Documentation Project: Findings Available

Findings Available

Interim Descriptive/Analytical Findings

Findings

07/01/00: State Policy Documentation Project: Findings Summary List
Interim Descriptive/Analytical Findings:

SPDP posts a summary of findings for the following issues:

Cash Assistance Entitlement Policies
Categorical Eligibility for TANF Cash Assistance
Child Care Assistance
Financial Eligibility for TANF Cash Assistance
Medicaid
Reproductive Health Provisions and Teen Requirements
Sanctions for Noncompliance with Work Activities
Separate State Programs and Segregated State Funds within TANF
TANF Applications
Time Limits
Work Activities and Requirements

 
09/01/00: State Policy Documentation Project: Sanctions for Non-Compliance With Work Activities
Interim Descriptive/Analytical Findings:

"Under TANF, states must require recipients to participate in work activities and must impose financial penalties on families that refuse, without good cause, to do so... States are also required to impose sanctions if an individual fails to cooperate without good cause with child support enforcement requirements. In addition, other provisions of the law authorize, but do not require states to impose TANF sanctions on an individual who refuses without good cause to comply with an individual responsibility plan that may set forth a range of actions that an individual must take, such as immunization of children or school attendance."