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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)

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…

Question / Response(s)

A representative from the Montana Department of Public Health & Human Services is interested in learning how other States have re-designed their TANF programs to streamline the variety of social support and job placement services available for TANF participants?

Webinar / Webcast

On February 19, 2014, The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families, Office of Family Assistance hosted "The Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM), Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program…

Report

This Congressional Research Service report explains the differences in work requirements, work incentives, and time limits between TANF, SNAP, and housing assistance. Federal law requires most able-bodied adults receiving SNAP to participate in work…

Report

This paper, from the Crittenton Women’s Union (CWU), discusses how executive functioning skills are important to move out of poverty. Executive functioning includes skills like impulse control, working memory, and mental…

Stakeholder Resource

Created by the Center for Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP), the Building Better Programs initiative is a useful resource for TANF programs and other human services stakeholders looking to improve program strategies and offerings to better meet…

Journal Article

This article from the Future of Children Collaboration examines programs with an explicitly two-generation approach. The authors look at these past and current programs’ efficacy, and although the more recent two-generation programs are too young to…

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