Section 167:77-c Outcome Measurement System.
I. The oversight committee established by RSA 126-A:13 shall monitor changes to the state TANF program made as a result of the federal reauthorization of TANF in 2005 and shall provide informational meetings on such changes to the general court.
II. The department of health and human services shall provide the federal Administration for Children and Families with the data requested by that agency to calculate the national TANF high performance rankings regardless of whether financial bonuses are paid for performance.
III. Success of the TANF program shall be based on research and statistical analysis to determine if the goals of moving TANF clients towards long term economic independence set forth in RSA 167:77, IV and V are met.
IV. The department shall establish an outcome measurement system with the following areas of analysis:
(a) The job retention and earnings gain indicators using the same methodology as the TANF high performance measures.
(b) The number and percent of cash assistance recipients who close each month due to employment, the average hourly, weekly, and monthly wages, the average total weekly and monthly total income, the number and percent who return to cash assistance after 3, 6, and 12 months.
(c) The extended earnings of families who leave TANF due to employment.
(d) Numbers and percentages of families who leave TANF due to employment and stay employed.
(e) Numbers and percentage of families who increase their earnings after leaving TANF.
(f) Numbers and percentages of TANF families that leave TANF and ranking of their income compared to the federal poverty level and the NH living wage.
(g) Poverty and child poverty rates and out of wedlock births and the national ranking of New Hampshire.
(h) The impact of TANF policies on local assistance based on data requested by the oversight committee and as reported by the New Hampshire Local Welfare Administrators Association.
(i) The reasons for caseload increases and decreases with analysis of numbers and reasons for openings, denials, and closings and the numbers and reasons for sanctions and denials due to noncompliance with program requirements.
(j) Any other measures selected by the department or the oversight committee on health and human services which shows TANF performance in moving families out of poverty.
V. The department shall develop and maintain the indicators for the program outcomes listed in paragraph IV, subject to review and approval by the oversight committee on health and human services. The department shall submit a report to the oversight committee each June and December.
Source. 2007, 349:2, eff. Sept. 14, 2007.