Improving Access to TANF for Teen Parents: Recommendations for Reauthorization


 

Publication Date: August 2003

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

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Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

This document describes the unintended consequences of the minor parent rules in the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program and offers specific recommendations to strengthen the TANF program for teen parents and their children. Nearly 120 national, state, and local organizations have endorsed these recommendations.