TANF Awareness Quiz
TANF Awareness Quiz
Test your knowledge on the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and its associated initiatives. This quiz covers key concepts, regulations, and operational aspects of TANF, helping you to better understand how this vital program operates.
Key areas include:
- Eligibility criteria
- Work participation rates
- Core and Core Plus activities
- Florida's specific policies
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is which of the following?
Commonly referred to as a block party.
A federal assistance program designed to help needy families become self-sufficient.
Temporary cash assistance and support services to indigent adults.
Eligibility based program that evaluates a family's available income (not including: wages, unemployment benefits, social security benefits and child support) and compares it to a need standard based on family size.
PRWORA, Public Law 104-193 changed the nation's welfare system from the receipt of cash assistance as an entitlement to one that requires work in exchange for time-limited assistance.
True
False
Which of the following is True?
TANF program requires Welfare Transition Program meet work participation rate of 50% for all families.
TANF programs requires Welfare Transition Program met work participation rate of 90% for Two-Parent families.
If the Welfare Transition Program fails to meet the work participation rate, Florida may be subject to a penalty of up to 5% reduction in the TANF grant &penalties for failure to establish or comply with the work participation verification procedures.
All answers are correct.
Florida Workforce Innovation Act (WIA) consolidated the State workforce and TANF programs under one board, CareerSource Florida and created the Department of Economic Opportunity.
True
False
Workforce, welfare, and employment services are delivered by the Regional Workforce Boards via the local CareerSource Florida centers. How many Regional Workforce Boards are there?
24
13
3
20
The Department of Children and Families is responsible for which of the following?
Determining eligibility, exemptions, exceptions and diversions
Determining eligibility, exemptions, exceptions and deferrals
Determining eligibility, exemptions, exceptions and disbursements
None of the answers are correct.
Work activities required in exchange for continued eligibility of benefits include Core and Core Plus activities
True
False
The minimum number of Core activity hours required for an individual not exempt, depends upon whether the family is a one parent family and the age of the youngest child in the household
True
False
Job Skills Training, Education related to employment, and GED are which o the following?
Core Plus Activities
Core Activities
A combination of Core and Core Plus Activities
No answers are correct
Participants applying for Temporary Cash Assistance and is employed or has a job offer, may be considered for Up-Front Diversion. Which of the following statements are true?
The Up-Front Diversion may help an unemployed recipient without prospects of employment with a temporary emergency.
If qualified for Up-Front Diversion, participant may receive a one-time cash payment for as much as $10,000.
The Up-Front Diversion requires recipients to remain off cash assistance for several months.
All of the statments regarding Up-Front Diversion are True.
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