TANF Work Participation Rates

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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) issues TANF state work participation rates, which measure how well states engage families receiving assistance in certain work activities during a fiscal year. For work participation rate purposes, states include the 50 states, the District of Columbia, and the US territories of Guam, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. A state must meet an overall (or “all families”) and a two-parent work participation requirement or face a potential financial penalty.  Units of Response: TANF Recipients, Work-Eligible Individuals Type of Data: Administrative Tribal Data: Yes Periodicity: Annual Demographic Indicators: Not Applicable SORN: https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2015/04/02/2015-07440/privacy-act-of-1974-system-of-records-notice Data Use Agreement: Unavailable Data Use Agreement Location: Unavailable Granularity: State Spatial: United States Geocoding: State

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21 Includes the FY 2019 state work participation rates. All states were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2018 through September 2019. Six states failed their required two-parent work participation rate. Temporal: 10/2018 - 9/2019, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: EXCEL, PDF https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ofa/wpr2019_final_08182020.xlsx
21 Includes the FY 2018 state work participation rates. All states were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2017 through September 2018. Six states failed their required two-parent work participation rate. Temporal: 10/2017 - 9/2018, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: EXCEL, PDF https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ofa/wpr2018_web.xlsx
21 Includes the FY 2020 state work participation rates. All states were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2019 through September 2020. Six states failed their required two-parent work participation rate. Temporal: 10/1/2019 - 9/30/2020, Restriction: Public-use Aggregate, Formats: EXCEL, PDF https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ofa/wpr2020-final-072121.xlsx

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  • employment
  • family-assistance

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