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Recommendations
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Alabama ASSETS Demonstration: Final Report: Evaluation of the Alabama Avenues to Self-Sufficiency through Employment and Training Services (ASSETS) Demonstration (01/01/97)
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"The study recommends maintaining most of the aspects of consolidated intake and program rules as well as unified case management and the CSE requirement for NA-only families..."(xiii).
"The study does not recommend reintroducing food stamp cash-out, as this feature seems to have made welfare relatively more attractive and may have potentially undermined ASSETS self-sufficiency goals"(xiii).
"A major disappointment was that although ASSETS increased participation in E&T activities, it did not increase employment and earnings. The most likely reason was that ASSETS increased the value of welfare relative to work. Recently some states have been experimenting with policy changes that may remedy this problem. The policy changes fall into three related categories: increasing financial work incentives; pushing an "employment first" E&T program; and imposing stricter behavioral requirements, including time limits on assistance"(xiii).
Insofar as the stricter requirements can be effectively implemented, they may tip the scales in favor of work over welfare for an important portion of Alabama’s caseload"(xiii).
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