Index - T

TANF. See Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)

Tax Reform Act (1986), 28-29

Taxes
     Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), 150
     and poverty estimates, 31-32, 33t
     relief, 28-30, 30(f3.4)

Teenage mothers
     decrease in teen welfare recipients, 146
     Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act, 12
     Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF), 103, 105

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
     Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act, changes made by, 14
     Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act (1997), 10
     change in number of families receiving, 10t-11t
     characteristics of recipients, 103t
     child care, 143
     child support enforcement, 62-63
     Child Support Enforcement program, 12
     criticisms of, 154-155
     duration of assistance, 102-103
     earnings, 150
     eligibility and benefits, 96-99
     employment of recipients, 148t-149t
     employment rates, 147
     expenditures, 1-3, 7(f1.2)
     families receiving, 101t
     federal and state expenditures, 93t, 94t
     historic trends, 100(t 7.8)
     legislation, 6
     maintenance-of-effort requirements, 94, 95t
     maximum benefits, 97-98, 98t, 99t-100t
     Medicaid eligibility, 117
     reauthorization, 14-15
     reauthorization debate, 154
     recipients, by state, 147f
     recipients receiving assistance from multiple programs, 89, 90t
     school lunch program, 114
     state expenditures, 4
     state flexibility in appropriating funds, 151-152
     surplus funds, 151
     teenage mothers, 103, 105
     transportation provision, 143
     type of assistance, 104t
     work exemptions, 146
     work incentives, 150-151
     work requirements, 131-132, 142, 147, 148t-149t, 150-151

Thresholds, poverty, 17, 18t, 30-31

"Thrifty Food Plan," 13

Title V, Economic Opportunity Act (EOA), 128

TMA (Transitional Medical Assistance), 120

Transitional Medical Assistance (TMA), 120

Transportation and work, 143