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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.

Watching the Clock Tick: Factors Associated with TANF Accumulation, a part of the National Poverty Center Working Paper Series

Report

Authored by Kristin S. Seefeldt and Sean M. Orzol. In 1996, welfare reform legislation imposed a 60-month lifetime limit on TANF benefits. The authors use four waves of data from the Women's Employment Study to determine which personal…

Early and Later Work First New Jersey (WFNJ) Clients: Are Their Experiences Different?

Report

Authored by Robert G. Wood, Anu Rangarajan, and John Deke. This Mathematica Policy Research, Inc. report compares the characteristics and experiences of two groups of Work First New Jersey clients: 1) an early group that participated in the first…

Profile of Families Cycling On and Off Welfare

Report

Authored by Lashawn Richburg-Hayes and Stephen Freedman. This MDRC report analyzes the experiences of welfare "cyclers" using five MDRC studies of welfare reform initiatives during the mid- to late-1990s. Overall, cyclers constituted a relatively…

Experiences of Virginia Time Limit Families After Case Closure: 18-Month Followup with Cases Closed in Early 1998, 1999, and 2000

Report

Authored by Nancy Wemmerus, Carole Kuhns, and Renee Loeffler. This report describes the status of over 1,000 Virginia families 18 months after their TANF cases closed because of a time limit. It finds that nearly all parents worked after leaving…

The Indiana welfare reform evaluation: Five-year impacts, implementation, costs and benefits

Report

Nearly a decade has passed since Indiana began planning its approach to welfare reform. In January 1994 Governor Evan Bayh announced an initial plan, called the “Partnership for Personal Responsibility.” The U.S. Department of Health and Human…

Welfare time limits: State policies, implementation, and effects on families

Report

Few features of the 1990s welfare reforms have generated as much attention and…

Achieving Change for Texans evaluation: Final summary report

Report

In 1995, the Texas Legislature enacted H. B. 1863, which formed the basis for Texas’ waiver from existing Federal laws governing the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. The Texas waiver, officially known as the Achieving…

Site Visit to Puerto Rico: Addressing TANF Limits

Report

The Welfare Peer Technical Assistance Network coordinated a site visit for staff members from the Virgin Islands' Department of Human Services and Department of Labor to collaborate on TANF time limit preparedness strategies and post time limit…

ACF West-Central HUB TANF Financial Management and Reporting Workshop

Conference Paper

This report summarizes the ACF West-Central Hub TANF Financial Management and Reporting Workshop held August 7-9, 2001 in Addison, TX.

Welfare-to-work transitions for parents of infants: In-depth study of eight communities [Final report]

Report

The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) of 1996 changed cash welfare from a system of income maintenance as an entitlement to low-income families to one in which assistance to families is both limited and…

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