Gao-04-256 Supports for Low-income Families


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GAO-04-256 Supports For Low-Income Families: States Serve a Broad Range of Families through a Complex and Changing System




Supports for Low-Income Families


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The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) is an independent agency that works for Congress. The GAO watches over Congress, and investigates how the federal government spends taxpayers dollars. The Comptroller General of the United States is the leader of the GAO, and is appointed to a 15-year term by the U.S. President. The GAO wants to support Congress, while at the same time doing right by the citizens of the United States. They audit, investigate, perform analyses, issue legal decisions and report anything that the government is doing. This is one of their reports.







Support for Low-Income Individuals and Families


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Support for Low-Income Individuals and Families: A Review of Recent GAO Work










Welfare Reform


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Under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grants, states have the authority to make decisions about how to allocate fed. & state funds to assist low-income families. States' increased flexibility under TANF as well as the budgetary stresses they experienced after a recession draw attention to the fiscal partnership between the fed. gov't. & states. This report examines: changes in the overall level of welfare-related spending; changes in spending priorities for welfare-related non-health services; & the contribution of TANF funds to states' spending for welfare-related serv. Reviewed spending in 9 states for FY Ô95, Ô00, & Ô04. Focused on spending for working-age adults & children, excl. the elderly, long-term & institutional care.




Welfare Reform


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