Service Delivery Area: Benefits
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Policy Navigating the Patchwork of State Paid Family and Medical Leave Programs
While millions of workers have gained access to PFML, the lack of uniformity in mandatory PFML programs created a growing patchwork of state laws, differing on nearly 30 policy components across four key areas: substantive benefits, financing, eligibility, and administrative requirements.
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Digital Identity My File NYC — PATH Pilot Case Study
My File NYC is a document storage and sharing website that provides New York City residents a safe place to store and share vital documents when applying for City services.
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Diversity, Equity + Inclusion What is Meaningful Community Engagement?
The Community-Driven Policies and Practices project engaged people experiencing poverty in power-building sessions to develop advocacy plans for economic justice. This report offers recommendations for nonprofits to engage people with lived experience of poverty in advocacy.
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Policy Pathways to Economic Mobility: Mobility Experiences
Through analyzing hundreds of research studies and surveying thousands of Americans this report identifies 28 life experiences that drive lifetime income, called mobility experiences.
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Playbook for Replicating Rx Kids
This document describes how states can access TANF funds for four months of cash payments to families experiencing an acute economic hardship, modeled after the RxKids program.
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Policy Using TANF Funds to Provide Cash to Families
The flexibility of the TANF block grant allows states to use TANF funds to provide cash to families through additional mechanisms, at least for brief periods, with fewer requirements.
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Human-Centered Design Summer of CX Webinar Series: Principles to Improve CX
This webinar discusses the White House Executive Order and federal agency guidance for improving customer experience in public benefit programs.
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Procurement Unemployment Insurance IT Modernization Grant Projects: Phase 1 Summary Report
This report summarizes findings and observations on the implementation of Phase 1 of the U.S. Department of Labor’s Open UI Initiative, highlighting effective strategies, challenges, opportunities, and recommendations for supporting states’ UI modernization efforts.
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Human-Centered Design Tackling the Time Tax: How the Federal Government Is Reducing Burdens to Accessing Critical Benefits and Services: 2024 Edition
OIRA publishes an annual progress report on the burden reduction initiative, summarizing initiatives across all of government, and providing in-depth case studies of various burden reduction efforts, including their impact on individuals, families, and small businesses.
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Policy Paving the Road to ACCESS: Early Insights from the Aligned Customer-Centered Ecosystem of Supports & Services (ACCESS) Initiative
Through the ACCESS project, key collaborators have shared insights into current and future opportunities for alignment within their agencies, including potential enablers for and barriers to alignment activities.
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Procurement Modernizing Unemployment Insurance: Lessons From The Tiger Teams
This report presents findings from a review by the Bipartisan Policy Center of DOL’s Tiger Teams initiative.
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How to Streamline Verification of Eligibility for Medicaid and SNAP
This toolkit provides resources for advocates and state agencies seeking to streamline the eligibility verification process for Medicaid and SNAP.