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To determine how the policies, services, and program rules in place under the new TEEM and TANF provisions are implemented and operated in North Dakota.
To document the implementation and assess the performance of the TEEM screening system, a computer-based expert system designed to promote self-sufficiency by identifying recipients’ barriers to work.
To examine the implementation of a diverse set of reforms aimed at promoting employment, including both positive and negative interventions (i.e. work incentives as well as sanctions).
To describe the implementation and responses to a family cap, which limits benefit amounts for recipients who have additional children while receiving benefits.
To document variation in the implementation and operation of welfare at local (county and tribal) levels, and to identify the sources of variation.
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