,Creating Work Opportunities. Assisting TANF Recipients Living with Disabilities to Obtain and Maintain Employment.

Creating Work Opportunities. Assisting TANF Recipients Living with Disabilities to Obtain and Maintain Employment.


 

Publication Date: February 2008

Publisher: Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.

Author(s): LaDonna Pavetti; Michelle K. Derr

Research Area: Social conditions

Keywords: Employment; TANF; Disability

Type: Brief

Abstract:

This brief profiles three programs that use difference approaches--unpaid work experience, subsidized employment, and unsubsidized transitional employment--to create work opportunities for TANF recipients who are living with a disability and have not been successful in finding competitive employment.