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The OFA PeerTA Archive captures historical information from the peerta.acf.hhs.gov website for reference and record-keeping purposes. The PeerTA site contains information posted within the past three years. You can search for any prior information below.

Question / Response(s)

Are any States operating their TANF program out of two separate State agencies?

Question / Response(s)

The Peer TA Network would like to know if any State had court cases or administrative hearings on civil rights issues in relation to sanctioning TANF participants?

Question / Response(s)

The Peer TA Network would like to know if any States conducted a needs assessment or needs standard study over the past few years? Where can these findings being accessed?

Question / Response(s)

The Peer TA Network would like to know which States pay recipients' benefits using Direct Deposit (not EBT), rather than sending a check in the mail?

Conference Paper

Low-income families who do not receive TANF during periods of unemployment are often referred to as “disconnected.” This session will draw on recent qualitative and survey research, including OPRE-funded work, to examine how…

Stakeholder Resource

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Building Better Programs initiative collected this set of resources on the process of implementing a redesigned TANF program structure based on the experience of the District of Columbia. In 2011, DC…

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services would like to know if other States have a matrix, table, or other method to calculate countable hours for online job search activities?

Fact / Tip Sheet

This fact sheet from the Office of Child Support Enforcement (OCSE) examines the changing relationship of whether the government or the custodial family is owed child support arrears, and how this influences the financial stability of TANF…

Stakeholder Resource

This compendium from the federal Office of Child Support Enforcement provides information from February 2014, showing that at least 30 states and the District of Columbia had work-oriented programs with active child support agency involvement to…

Report

In this testimony before the State of Vermont House Committee on Human Resources, Heather Hahn discusses proposed changes to Vermont's TANF program, and more generally, the "benefits cliff" and work incentives that participants experience as they…

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