It's Great When People Don't Even Have Their Welfare Cases Opened
Tanf Diversion as Process and Lesson
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4074297 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Frank Ridzi (0009-0002-5915-4023, Le Moyne College), A S London (0000-0001-6339-4279, Syracuse University) |
| Year | 2006 |
| Volume | 23 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 725-743 |
| Publication date | 2006-05-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Review of Policy Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1541-132X • E-ISSN: 1541-1338 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/j.1541-1338.2006.00226.x |
| OpenAlex | W2013184700 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 9 |
| References cited | 26 |
The 1996 Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) encouraged states to reduce welfare caseloads. Caseload reduction can be accomplished by promoting exit for work, marriage, or other private means of support and by diverting new applicants. Most research on caseload decline has focused on welfare-to-work outcomes; less is known about processes of diversion. This study employs administrative records and ethnographic data to examine diversion in West County, New York, from 1999 to 2003. Findings demonstrate a high level of diversion and suggest that application is an ongoing and at times remedial process rather than an event. Diversion occurs at all points of the expanded TANF (Temporary Assistance to Needy Families) intake process and is associated with one-time lump sum payments as well as the hassle factor engendered by new eligibility requirements. The encumbered lives of applicants and TANF staff discretion are also implicated as factors contributing to diversion. We conclude with an analysis of the implications of TANF diversion for access to benefits
Business · Discretion · Economic growth · Economics · Labour economics · Payment · Political science · Remedial education · Welfare · Employment and Welfare Studies · Engineering · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Law · Public Administration · Work-Family Balance Challenges · Finance
Should I Stay or Should I Go? Why Applicants Leave the Extended Welfare Application Process
Bringing the Organization Back In
The Extended Tanf Application Period and Applicant Outcomes
Clients’ Perspectives on a Technology-Based Food Assistance Application System
Ending Access as We Know It
Do Welfare Avoidance Grants Prevent Cash Assistance
Incentives in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program
Administrative Exclusion
Contingent Government Workers and Labor Solidarity
The undeserving poor
The new politics of poverty
Child Care and Inequality
Unstable Work, Unstable Income
Making Tanf Work
The "New Consensus" on the Gendered "Social Contract
Exploring The Structuration Of Technology Within Human Service Organizations
Issues in Implementing Tanf in New York
Which Tanf Applicants Are Diverted, and What Are Their Outcomes
Organizational Forms as Moral Practices
Inside the Welfare Contract
The Durability of Supreme Court Welfare Reforms of the 1960s
Enforcing a Participation Mandate in a Welfare-to-Work Program
A Genealogy of Dependency
The Implementation of Welfare Reform Policy
Achieving Goal Congruencein Complex Environments
From Poverty to Perversity
Envisioning Dependency
Fighting 'Big Government
Hierarchies, Jobs, Bodies
Dangerous Dependencies
Flat Broke with Children
Instability in patchworks of child care when moving from welfare to work
| Unique citing works | 9 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,47 |
| Citation span | 2007 - 2016 (10) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |