Reviews best practices to promote monitoring consistency.

Finds that most WtW grantees, except recently funded ones, are now delivering services, but restrictive eligibility rules still in effect in late 1999 continue to impede enrollment. Despite low enrollment, grantees have moved expeditiously to place WtW participants in work activities. To date,...

This working paper presents methodological findings from the latest round of the Health Tracking Household Survey, which added a cell phone sample to the existing landline sample of random telephone numbers to increase the coverage of the U.S. population.

Examines whether differences between respondents and nonrespondents in a survey of Iowa families that left TANF resulted in findings that overstated the economic well-being of these families. Finds that nonrespondents were less likely to have health insurance and more likely to have...

This issue brief compares the 2011 and 2010 data collection cycles for the National Survey of Substance Abuse Treatment Services (N-SSATS), an annual multimode establishment survey of more than 17,000 substance abuse treatment facilities in the United States, to determine whether a new data...

This brief found that small businesses that continue to offer coverage will face changes in what plans are available to offer. As individual and Small Business Health Options Program (SHOP) exchanges are developed, employees of small businesses will likely receive more choices and more...

Each year, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services conducts a survey of Medicare fee-for-service providers and suppliers to measure satisfaction with contractor performance, as required by the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003. The MCPSS elicits...

This brief found that many proprietors of small businesses were unaware of ACA provisions designed to help small businesses offer health insurance to their employees, often by directly or indirectly reducing the costs of providing coverage. The findings highlight the importance of raising...