This guide outlines how states can use TANF funds to provide direct cash assistance to families, particularly through flexible mechanisms like nonrecurrent short-term benefits (NRSTs).
This OPRE brief provides strategies for enhancing cultural responsiveness in social service agencies, focusing on improving services for diverse communities through organizational change, staff development, and culturally informed program design.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
A report examining how risk assessment tools are used to improve payment accuracy in nutrition assistance programs and identifying effective practices for their design and implementation.
A practical guide for advocates that explains how automated benefit notices are generated, where common notice failures originate, and how to push for effective fixes.
This publication explains current state integrated eligibility and enrollment (IEE) system implementation processes, approaches, and opportunities for future processes and technologies. It is a resource for state officials, advocates, funders, and tech partners working to implement these systems.
DGN Spotlights highlight innovative digital initiatives transforming how the government connects with the public. This story explores Washington State’s Customer Portal, a platform representing a major step toward unifying digital service access across state agencies.
A public sector job posting for Maryland’s Director of Digital Services role, focused on building and leading user-centered digital systems for the state’s new paid family and medical leave program.
This issue brief provides a comprehensive framework for state officials to monitor and evaluate the far-reaching impacts of the H.R.1 budget reconciliation bill on the Medicaid program.
This resource provides guidance and best practices for the weekly or bi-weekly certification process that claimants must complete to maintain eligibility for unemployment insurance (UI) benefits.
During this event, researchers addressed questions with findings from data collected from state UI agencies across the country and focus groups with women who have experienced unemployment.
An online hub that connects WIC agencies and their partners through a national Data Matching Community of Practice, offering quarterly virtual convenings to share best practices, case studies, and peer learning on strategies to improve WIC outreach and enrollment.
This section of the Building Resilience plan outlines strategies to improve the long-term solvency and sustainability of state unemployment insurance (UI) trust funds through better funding practices and legislative reform.
