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Who Are the Children in TANF Child-Only Cases with Relative Caregivers in Case Study States?

April 26, 2017caregivers Case cases child-only children relative study TANF

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Who Are the Children in TANF Child-Only Cases with Relative Caregivers in Case Study States?

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As depicted in Section 2, child-only cases have been growing in proportion since the enactment of PRWORA in 1996. Characteristics of the child-only caseload and their relative caregivers varied among the states participating in the case studies. Children The most recent national data on children in child-only cases comes from the Fifth Annual TANF Report to Congress (DHHS, 2003) and is based on data collected between October 2000 and September 2001. Table 4-2 summarizes these nationally collected data for the five states.