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IPE-83-3 1 (1983-01-24)

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BY THE US, GENERAL ACCOUNTING OFFICE

Report To The Honorable Edward M. Kennedy

Ranking Minority Member, Committee On

Labor And Human Resources

United States Senate                                             LM1l20456





Does AFDC Workfare Work?

Information Is Not Yet Available

From HHS's Demonstration Projects


Workfare programs under AFDC require participants
to work at unpaid jobs in order to receive their welfare
benefits. HHS has established Community Work
Experience Program (CWEP) demonstrations as a way
of identifying effective workfare approaches. The
Social SecurityAct, however, does not require HHS to
evaluate them or to report to the Congress on their
implementation.

GAO believes--and HHS agrees--that workfare's
effectiveness cannot be determined without evalu-
ations.Nonetheless, HHS's approach to evaluation in
fiscal 1982 has yielded almost no information on
workfare's success in moving people into unsubsidized
jobs, reducing welfare costs, or meeting other program
goals.
HHS has awarded CWEP demonstration status to
seven States for fiscal 1983, and most have included
adequate evaluation plans in their proposals. If HHS
strengthens its oversight procedures, more data may
become available. Until then, policy decisions will
have to be made without knowing whether workfare
has worked in these demonstrations.



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                                                             GAO/IPE-83-3
   1cln1 T'N  -JANUARY 24, 1983

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