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- AIDS Orphans and Vulnerable Children (OVC): Problems, Responses, and Issues for Congress
- This report discusses the issue of children that have been left as orphans due to AIDS taking their parents lives. Moreover, the report details that between 2001 and 2003 the number of children orphaned from AIDS increased by 3.5 million. The rate of orphaned children is only expected to increase in the future if massive spending is not issued to curb the problem.
- Antipoverty Effects of Unemployment Insurance
- This report examines the antipoverty effects of unemployment insurance, benefits during the past recession, and the economic recovery.
- Family Law: Congress’ Authority to Legislate on Domestic Relations Questions
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- Child Support Enforcement Program Incentive Payments: Background and Policy Issues
- This report describes the current CSE incentive payment system, explains how state incentive payments are derived, presents some of the state trends, and discusses some issues.
- Child Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
- This report contains the new reforms and potential issues of child support enforcement.
- Welfare Reauthorization: An Overview of the Issues
- This report includes information regarding welfare reauthorization. Topics of discussion include trends under welfare reform, TANF work requirements, and child support enforcement.
- Children in Poverty: Profile, Trends, and Issues
- This report highlights the concerns over child poverty which is the social and economic concern in the United States. It discusses in detail about Child poverty in 2007, trends, and Government "Safety Net" policy.
- Child Support Enforcement: Tribal Programs
- This report documents the Child Support Enforcement programs relating to American indigenous tribes.
- An Introduction to the Low-Income Housing Tax Credit
- This report discusses the low-income housing tax credit (LIHTC) program, which is one of the federal government’s primary policy tools for encouraging the development and rehabilitation of affordable rental housing. These non-refundable federal housing tax credits are awarded to developers of qualified rental projects via a competitive application process administered by state housing finance authorities.
- Child Support Enforcement: New Reforms and Potential Issues
- P.L. 104-193 (the 1996 welfare reform legislation) made major changes to the Child Support Enforcement (CSE) program. Some of the changes include requiring states to increase the percentage of fathers identified, establishing an integrated, automated network linking all states to information about the location and assets of parents, and requiring states to implement more enforcement techniques to obtain collections from debtor parents. Additional legislative changes were made in 1997, 1998, and 1999, but not in 2000, 2001, or 2002. This report describes several aspects of the revised CSE program and discusses three issues that probably will be reexamined by the 108th Congress — CSE financing, parental access by noncustodial parents, and distribution of support payments.
- The Child Support Enforcement Program: A Review of the Data
- This report discusses the child support enforcement program that promotes self-sufficiency of families in which one of the biological parents living outside of the home by ensuring that noncustodial parents meets their financial responsibility to their children.
- Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP): Implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act
- This report is intended to provide an overview of the Adequate Yearly Process (AYP) concept and several related issues, a description of the AYP provisions of the No Child Left Behind Act, and an analysis of the implementation of these provisions by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) and the states. It will be updated when major administrative actions are taken by ED, or substantial new data on state implementation become available.
- Food Stamp Benefits for Legal Immigrants in P.L. 105-185
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- Child Welfare: Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) Benefits for Children in Foster Care
- This report begins with a discussion of the foster care system and the Social Security benefits available to eligible children, including those in foster care. It then describes the role of representative payees and their responsibilities. The report provides data on the use of Social Security benefits to reimburse states for child welfare, and includes a discussion of the Keffeler decision. Finally, the report concludes with proposals supported by some advocates to change the current practice of using SSI and other Social Security benefits to fund foster care.
- State Children’s Health Insurance Program: An Overview
- This report describes the basic elements of CHIP, focusing on how the program is designed, who is eligible, what services are covered, how enrollees share in the cost of care, and how the program is financed. The report ends with a brief discussion of the future of CHIP.
- Child Welfare Issues in the 108th Congress
- This report discusses child welfare services that seek to protect children who have been abused or neglected or who are at risk of maltreatment. It also point out child welfare financing and other child welfare issues.
- Child Welfare Financing: Issues and Options
- This report discusses the information related to federal funds that are specifically targeted towards child welfare activities. It also discusses the related issues and policy options, and proposals
- Child Welfare: State Plan Requirements under the Title IV-E Foster Care, Adoption Assistance, and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Program
- The focus of this report is Title IV-E plan requirements other than those related to provision of direct financial assistance to eligible children. It also provides an overview of requirement related to children's safety, permanence, and well-being.
- Child Support Enforcement and the Hague Convention on Recovery of International Child Support
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- Welfare Reform: Family Caps in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
- This report examines family cap policies implemented by states under the Temporary Assistance for Needy families (TANF) block grant program. This report describes family cap policies of the states and their plans to reduce nonmarital births, provides some background on the family cap approach, discusses findings from a couple of studies on the effect of family caps on childbearing, and describes some of the legal issues concerning family caps.
- Medicaid: A Primer
- This report describes the basic elements of Medicaid, focusing on federal rules governing who is eligible, what services are covered, how the program is financed and how beneficiaries share in the cost, how providers are paid, and the role of special waivers in expanding eligibility and modifying benefits. The recently passed Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 or DRA, as amended by the Tax Relief and Health Care Act of 2006, included many provisions affecting Medicaid. DRA provides states with opportunities to make fundamental changes in Medicaid program design, including covered benefits and beneficiary cost-sharing. These and other major DRA changes are summarized here. Lastly, basic program statistics and citations to in-depth CRS reports on specific topics are provided.
- Indian Tribes and Welfare Reform
- This report provides an overview of the Indian tribes and welfare reform.
- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: Issues for the 112th Congress
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Vocational Education: Policy and Practice
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: An Introduction
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Block Grant: An Introduction
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: Responses to Frequently Asked Questions
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Eligibility and Benefit Amounts in State TANF Cash Assistance Programs
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Its Role in Response to the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Its Role in Response to the Effects of Hurricane Katrina
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Size and Characteristics of the Cash Assistance Caseload
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-Work Revisited
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-Work Revisited
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Welfare-to-Work Revisited
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families: Welfare Waivers
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- Trends in Welfare, Work, and the Economic Well-Being of Female-Headed Families with Children: 1987-2006
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- Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of FemaleHeaded Families with Children: 1987-2009
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- Welfare, Work, and Poverty Status of FemaleHeaded Families with Children: 1987-2010
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- Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF): Issues for the 110th Congress
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