Extractions: Fri, 5 Feb 1999 18:46:33 -0800 (PST) lubell@cbpp.org housingwelfare@lists.cbpp.org http://www.cbpp.org/pubs/housing.htm http://www.hudclips.org . The NOFA also may be accessed through the home page of HUD's Office of Public and Indian Housing: http://www.hud.gov/pih/pih.html In addition to the NOFA, HUD is preparing an application kit. To obtain a copy of the kit, contact the PIH Information and Resource Center at 1-800-955-2232. The kit also will be posted on the web. We will provide the URL when it is available. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR (DOL) WELFARE TO WORK GRANTS Although 75 percent of DOL welfare-to-work funds are allocated by formula to states, 25 percent of the funding is available in the form of "competitive grants awarded directly to local governments, Private Industry Councils, and private entities (such as community development corporations and community-based organizations, community action agencies, and other private organizations) who apply in conjunction with a Private Industry Council or local government. The Secretary of Labor will give special consideration to cities with large concentrations of poverty as well as to rural areas." This quote comes from DOL's fact sheet on their welfare-to-work grant program: http://wtw.doleta.gov/resources/factshet.html
Extractions: Disability Related Information www.disabilityinfo.gov - federal web portal site to access disability-related information Equal Employment Opportunity Commission www.eeoc.gov EEOC Fact Sheet - Job Applicants and the Americans with Disabilities Act www.eeoc.gov/facts/jobapplicant.html ... http://www.odl.state.ok.us/usinfo/topiclists/us-Spanish.htm - nueva connecci ón para encontrar websites del gobierno federal en español FirstGov www.firstgov.gov - An easy, user friendly place to start your search for other government web sites and information. First Gov en espa ñol http://www.firstgov.gov/Espanol - un lugar f cil de utilizar para empezar la b squeda de web sites y informaci n. Medicare www.medicare.gov - Part of the National Medicare Education Program - answers questions about Medicare. Or call 1-800-MEDICARE California Medicare Options http://www.CalMedicareOptions.org - Rates every Medicare HMO in California, as well as select Medigap policies, giving each a one- to five-star rating based on total benefits for the money Social Security Administration www.ssa.gov/
Extractions: Overview Common Questions Getting Started Teleconference ... Related Resources Background Contacts The Financial Management Service, Payment Automation Branch, in cooperation with the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE), is working with federal agencies that process payroll on-site to convert their wage withholding child support payments from checks to electronic funds transfer (EFT)/Electronic Data Interchange (EDI). The payments targeted for conversion to EFT/EDI are payments from orders issued to agencies from a child support enforcement entity that are directed to a State child support enforcement agency or the State's designated disbursement unit (SDU). The payments will be processed through the Automated Clearing House (ACH) network using the ACH Cash Concentration and Disbursement (CCD+) or the Corporate Trade Exchange (CTX) format for those federal agencies, and States with CTX capability. Specifically, these are child support payments within the jurisdiction of the Federal Child Support Enforcement Program initially legislated in 1975, under Title IV-D of the Social Security Act. The Act required state governments to set up their own programs to locate absent parents, establish paternity and support, enforce support, and collect and distribute child support payments. The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 which provided strong measures for ensuring child support enforcement further strengthened the Child Support Enforcement Program. The PRWORA, also called the Welfare Reform legislation of 1996, required that States develop EFT/EDI centralized collection and disbursement capability. This provided the means for which federal agencies can now process child support payments, normally sent to several different State county, or local child support enforcement entities, to one central location within a State.
ERS Publications - Food Review Perspectives on welfare reform procurement strategies used by other Federal agencies and by web administration webadmin@ers.usda.gov page updated http://www.ers.usda.gov/publications/aer766/
Extractions: Agricultural Economics Report No. 766. 64 pp, September 1998 USDA's Farm Service Agency (FSA) purchases food products for distribution through several of the Department's food assistance programs. This report describes FSA purchase methods and compares them to procurement strategies used by other Federal agencies and by private sector firms. It summarizes the principal policy issues faced by FSA in designing procurement strategies. And it uses a detailed statistical analysis to compare FSA prices to those realized in the private sector, and to identify the separate effects of agricultural commodity prices, seasonality, client location, purchase volumes, product characteristics, and competition on FSA product prices. Keywords: procurement, auctions, food assistance, competition In this report ... Chapters are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format. Frontmatter (Title page, Contents, Executive Summary)
Impact Of Welfare Reform On Employment And Training Activities It is important that State JTPA offices and SDAs help welfare agencies shape and then participate in the workrelated portion of welfare reform. http://atlas.doleta.gov/dmstree/tegl/tegl97/tegl_01-97.htm
Extractions: for Regional Management SUBJECT Impact of Welfare Reform on Employment and Training Activities Purpose. To provide guidance to the employment and training community regarding the Employment and Training Administration's (ETA's) role in implementing the provisions of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 and to encourage the employment and training community's full participation in this major initiative. References. Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193). Job Training Partnership Act, as amended.
Department Of Human Services Welfare Reform Since implementing our welfare reform program in 1997, we decline in the number of welfare headsof partnerships with other District agencies, contracts with http://dhs.dc.gov/dhs/cwp/view,a,3,q,492453,dhsNav,|30989|.asp
Extractions: REQUESTS Welfare Reform Welfare reform in the District of Columbia created positive changes in many of the District's poor families. Federal and local welfare funds provided through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program offers cash benefits and a wide range of services to help in the transition from welfare to work, improve educational levels, and aid in the achievement of self-sufficiency. This year, the federal government awarded the city its third out-of-wedlock birth reduction bonus, bringing the DC performance bonuses to $66.7 million and making the city one of only three jurisdictions to receive an out-of-wedlock birth bonus three years in a row. Work is the ultimate goal for low-income parents receiving TANF; however, unlike other states, the District allows recipients to pursue a variety of educational and self-sufficiency activities as they prepare for work and overcome barriers that keep them from working. Highlights and Accomplishments
ACF - Contacts coordinators of refugee programs; National Voluntary agencies; International Organizations. welfare reform State Links Complete listing of state welfare links. http://www.acf.hhs.gov/contacts.html
Extractions: Sometimes you may not know whom to contact regarding your concerns. Often, when it comes to child, youth, or family issues, a state, local, tribal, or private organization may be better able to provide the information or service you need. Sometimes, you may need the service immediately. This page provides critical phone numbers that you may need (or may want to save for later), as well as links to state contacts for child and family services. You may also find links to state policies and rules about programs serving children and families. If you wish to contact an Administration for Children and Families (ACF) staff person about your state, territory, or tribe's services to children and families, you can find links to ACF contacts. In most cases, if you choose to contact ACF, you should contact an ACF staff person in a regional office near you. You will find links here to reach ACF staff.
Welfare Reform agencies (MWAs) operating the Work First Programs throughout more information, Michigans welfare reform efforts, please visit www.michigan.gov/emi/0 http://www.semca.org/reform.htm
Extractions: Work First (Michigan Welfare to Work) is designed to establish and maintain a connection to the labor market for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients, Non-Custodial Parents (NCPs), and recipients of non-cash assistance such as Child Day Care, Medicaid, and Food Stamps. To make this connection, participants are first placed into employment and then encouraged to enroll in occupationally relevant education and training programs. SEMCA is one of 25 local Michigan Works! Agencies (MWAs) operating the Work First Programs throughout the state. The funds allocated to the MWAs for Work First Programs are used to provide job search services, education and training programs, and employment-related supportive services such as transportation allowances, uniforms, tools, and automobile repairs.
Acknowledgements response to the challenges of welfare reform, the adult a comprehensive delivery system for welfare recipients Types of Delivery Systems agencies, adult schools http://www.nifl.gov/nifl/fellowship/reports/sknell.htm
Extractions: Learn to Earn: Issues Raised by Welfare Reform for Adult Education, Training and Work By Suzanne Knell 1996-97 NIFL Literacy Leader Fellow and Executive Director, Illinois Literacy Resource Development Center 209 W. Clark Street Champaign, IL 61820 phone: 217-355-6068 fax: 217-355-6347 web: www.ilrdc.org This report was produced under a fellowship from the National Institute for Literacy. The views expressed are those of the author and not necessarily shared by the National Institute for Literacy. Acknowledgments As Congress was developing the national welfare legislation, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunities Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), I became concerned about how the legislation would affect adult education and training programs and individuals on welfare who attend the programs. A Fellowship Grant became available to me through the National Institute for Literacy to study the effects of the new welfare legislation on adult education and training and on adult learners. The new welfare act minimized the role of adult education and training programs and placed a larger emphasis on work and work activities. However, I was determined to find the "points of entry" for adult education and training in welfare reform and make convincing arguments that, with programmatic changes, adult education and training programs should be primary components of a welfare-to-work program. At the same time, I did not want to minimize the importance of other work activities nor the significance of placing welfare participants into jobs.
Welfare Reform Links on welfare/Medicaid reform innovations and links to state human services agencies web sites welfare reform State Links http//www.acf.dhhs.gov/news/welfare http://www.beyondwelfare.org/WelfareReformLinks.htm
California Labor Federation protection to existing workers, especially in public agencies. website at www.edd.ca.gov/wtows15.htm variety of materials related to welfare reform specific to http://www.calaborfed.org/workforce/tools_downloads/fact_welfare_reform.html
Extractions: FOR MORE DETAILS The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program contains provisions that allow funds to be used for working families who earn below a poverty-based threshold, making it a potential resource in providing services to a range of participants beyond those receiving cash aid. California receives $3.7 billion annually through a federal TANF "block grant." Given recent caseload reductions-a situation that might change given the new economic crisis-as little as half of that amount is being used for cash grants. Of the remaining funds, the majority goes to child care, training, education and other services to maintain employment. Welfare Reform: The CalWORKs program The California Department of Social Services (DSS) administers the TANF program in California through county government. Known as California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, or CalWORKs, the program has a cumulative 60-month time limit on receipt of cash aid and requires recipients to meet strict work-participation requirements. After five years in the program, the state will provide a safety net of aid to the children only.
Commonwealth Department Of Family And Community Services | Welfare Reform FaCS is working on welfare reform solutions together with other government departments, agencies, service providers and people receiving social security http://www.facs.gov.au/internet/facsinternet.nsf/aboutfacs/programs/esp-welfare_
Extractions: @import url( /internet/facsinternet.nsf/css/body/$File/body.css); Home Newsroom Contact FaCS Search FaCS is committed to delivering the Government's welfare reform agenda by developing a modern social security system. FaCS is working on welfare reform solutions together with other government departments, agencies, service providers and people receiving social security payments.
A New Paradigm For Welfare Reform: The Need For Civil Rights welfare agencies should hold regular town/neighborhood meetings US General Accounting Office, welfare reform Outcomes for 2000, http//www.ncd.gov , p. 49 http://www.usccr.gov/pubs/prwora/welfare.htm
Extractions: A New Paradigm for Welfare Reform: The Need for Civil Rights Enforcement A Statement by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights August 2002 Passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996 was intended to drastically transform public assistance in the United States. With it, a new emphasis was established to move public assistance recipients from welfare to work. While a laudable goal, rather than engaging recipients in productive activities that lead to self-sufficiency, the reform instituted tough requirements and restrictions on eligibility (including time limits, work requirements, and participation rates). The law gave states discretion to structure programs, as long as they met basic requirements, and impelled them to enforce strict sanctions. The Commission found that the proposals before Congress not only ignore some of the negative outcomes of the 1996 reform, but potentially compound the disparate impact of the 1996 law. Without civil rights protections in the legislation, welfare reform cannot lift all Americans out of poverty. Based on its own review and numerous studies, the Commission encourages Congress to promote policies that will alleviate the disparities and advance the objectives of reform. The Commissions recommendations are offered in three categories: (1) those that will facilitate the enforcement of civil rights laws, (2) those that will safeguard against discriminatory treatment, and (3) those that will prevent future disparate impact.
Human Services Policy (HSP): Welfare & Work findings from six case studies of state and local TANF agencies that have Among the AFDC, Medicaid, and Foster Care Programs Prior to welfare reform 19951996 http://aspe.hhs.gov/hsp/hspwelfare.htm
Extractions: ASPE conducted a Panel Study with the Committee on National Statistics (CNSTAT) of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), to evaluate the design of current, proposed, and future studies of the effects of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996. Prepared by Michele Ver Ploeg, Robert A. Moffitt, and Constance F. Citro, editors, the Panel provided the Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) with recommendations for studying the outcomes of recent changes in the welfare system. Status Report on Research on the Outcomes of Welfare Reform , June 2002.
Extractions: October 31, 1997 I. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Current federal welfare policy requires minor custodial parents receiving cash assistance to attend school and live with their parents or in an adult-supervised setting. Congress established these requirements as part of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA), which created the program for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and abolished the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. While we have little ability to examine how these requirements are being implemented under TANF at this early date, we can observe how several states implemented similar requirements under federal waivers. his report summarizes lessons based on an examination of the operational experiences in four states that implemented school attendance and living arrangements requirements using federal waivers under the prior AFDC program. The four states are Arizona, California, Massachusetts, and Virginia. The report draws lessons in three areas: (1) identifying teenage parents, (2) implementing school attendance requirements, and (3) implementing living arrangement requirements. IDENTIFYING TEENAGE PARENTS Identifying teenage parents, particularly those on someone else's grant, can be a major challenge.
Extractions: Locke advisers urge WorkFirst spending cuts, enrollment freeze Jonathan Martin - Staff writer Facing a budget shortfall in Washington's welfare reform program, Gov. Gary Locke's key advisers are recommending cutting nearly $60 million in services to help families find and keep jobs. It's the first time Locke has been forced to consider cuts in the 4-year-old WorkFirst program, and critics say it comes at a bad time. The proposals would freeze new enrollment in work-training programs just as the state's first lifetime limit on welfare benefits expires. Until now, WorkFirst had been holding a $250 million saving account, built largely because case loads plunged more quickly and dramatically than expected, from more than 88,200 to over 55,100 cases in the past four years. But those steep drops leveled out a year ago. Since then, former welfare recipients unable to find living-wage jobs are returning to welfare at almost the same rate as others are leaving. Now, spending on welfare checks is over budget, and the plethora of work assistance programs launched over the past two years have eaten up the savings. Budget projections show WorkFirst programs will run a $32 million deficit by 2003 unless cuts are made, said Ken Miller, Locke's welfare advisor.
Welfare.html and adult literacy programs, child care agencies, and advocacy interested in the subject of welfare reform and learning to listproc@literacy.nifl.gov write in http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Swearer_Center/Literacy_Resources/welfare.html
Extractions: LR/RI's links and women and literacy pages contain links to resources and statistics related to welfare, welfare reform, legislation and related information; this page reflects concerns around federal and state policy, legislation and practice, and their effects on adult learning in RI and across other states. This page also contains links to information about developments in welfare policy and implementation nationally and internationally, and to related issues, such as childcare, domestic violence and employment. The page is divided into 5 sections: education implementation/implications families Rhode Island ... kids and disabilities, learning disabilities and welfare rights Learners, practitioners and others with experience of, opinions about and recommendations pertinent to welfare legislation and its impact on adult learning and community are invited to contribute to this page. Please send comments, reflections and suggestions to LR/RI by email , phone, fax or post. Contact information can be found at LR/RI's home page
New York Health And Welfare Agencies and a former welfare reform adviser to gov 15 other firms in New York also are baseless one of five private agencies running W2 in http://www.newyorkweb.us/cgi-bin/search.cgi?keywords=New York Health and Welfare
Article Search - The Lone Star Report leaders may be wavering on spending cuts, gov. up Wohlgemuth restructuring of health agencies by Gilbert services and enact another round of welfare reform. http://www.lonestarreport.org/search.asp?topic=50
Indicators For Tracking Welfare Reform (3/98) with them directly in community organizations and human services agencies. be accessed at http//www.cbo.gov can be used to assess the impact of welfare reform. http://www.cbp.org/1998/9803indctr.html
Extractions: The scope of state and local monitoring efforts will depend on the availability of data. Most of the indicators described below should be available at the state level. In addition, a considerable amount of information may be available at the county level. A basic monitoring project can be divided into three categories: Social indicators: Measurements of community well being, demand for services, and program utilization. Fiscal indicators: Measurements of public spending and the adequacy of public resources to meet demands for services. Survey and interview data: Anecdotal information obtaining service providers, advocates, and low-income consumers responses to simple surveys. This type of information provides a vital human side that complements data obtained from fiscal and social indicators.
