You may give each page an identifying name, server, and channel on the next lines. Welfare caseloads have declined significantly, but recipients with multiple barriers to employment and those that cycle on and off welfare are at risk of reaching time limits on assistance. It also describes what some states are doing as long-term recipients reach time limits. Agencies need to identify and assess families that are at risk of reaching time limits to target more aggressive services to these families. Families have begun to reach time limits in 18 states as of January 2000.
States have the option to offer exemptions and extensions to state time limits.
The federal hardship exemption allows states to use TANF funds to provide assistance beyond 60 months for up to 20 percent of the average monthly caseload. Publications and Electronic Resources Bloom, Dan, Mary Farrell, James J. Kemple, and Nandita Verma. Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, April 1999. Bloom, Dan, Laura Melton, Charles Michalopoulos, Susan Scrivener, and Johanna Walter. Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, February 2000.