Family Employment Program (FEP) Study of Utah A Snapshot in Time—2010: Wave 4

This paper is an overview of the Wave 4 Family Employment Program (FEP) Study of Utah. The study included a cohort of participants in the FEP program, and Wave 4 provides data on an additional two years on usage of the program to help guide policy and program development. The average age of participants at entry was 28 years old, 93 percent were female, 64 percent were currently or have been married, 69 percent were in good to excellent physical health, 69.1 percent had a high school or GED degree, and the average number of children was 1.7. Additionally, 63.6 percent of the participants had only one episode of case assistance receipt between April 2005 and September 2010.