This resource, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, provides answers to common questions on the Tribal TANF Final Rule. There are answers to questions on TANF assistance, funding, uses…

This PowerPoint, from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance, provides information on parts of Title 45 which pertain to Child Care Development Funds and Tribal TANF…

HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala announced that 28 states have been awarded high performance bonuses created to reward superior results in welfare reform. The $200 million in annual bonuses, established in the 1996 welfare reform law, was given to…

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance (TA) Network, funded by the Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS), coordinated this workshop involving select…

This issue brief by the Welfare Information Network discusses the challenges to self-sufficiency and employment facing low-income mothers with criminal records. The brief provides strategies, best practices, and resource contacts to effectively…

A pilot welfare reform project in Florida, launched more than two years before the landmark 1996 federal welfare law, has provided some of the first hard evidence about the imposition of time limits on receipt of cash welfare assistance. This is…