Notice2022-20571
Submission for OMB Review; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services Analysis Execution Project (New Collection)
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Published
September 22, 2022
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect data to explore how one state's changes to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) policies and services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic were experienced by different racial and ethnic groups in that state. The goal is to obtain an in-depth understanding of how TANF participants of different racial and ethnic backgrounds experienced these policy and programmatic changes by comparing those experiences within one state, and to assess whether those changes may have helped to ameliorate challenges around program and benefit access for different populations or potentially created new challenges.
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[Federal Register Volume 87, Number 183 (Thursday, September 22, 2022)]
[Notices]
[Pages 57901-57902]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2022-20571]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
Submission for OMB Review; Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human
Services Analysis Execution Project (New Collection)
AGENCY: Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation, Administration
for Children and Families, HHS.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) at the U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) is proposing to collect
data to explore how one state's changes to Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) policies and services in response to the COVID-19
pandemic were experienced by different racial and ethnic groups in that
state. The goal is to obtain an in-depth understanding of how TANF
participants of different racial and ethnic backgrounds experienced
these policy and programmatic changes by comparing those experiences
within one state, and to assess whether those changes may have helped
to ameliorate challenges around program and benefit access for
different populations or potentially created new challenges.
DATES: Comments due within 30 days of publication. OMB must make a
decision about the collection of information between 30 and 60 days
after publication of this document in the Federal Register. Therefore,
a comment is best assured of having its full effect if OMB receives it
within 30 days of publication.
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ADDRESSES: Written comments and recommendations for the proposed
information collection should be sent within 30 days of publication of
this notice to <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain">www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAMain</a>. Find this particular
information collection by selecting ``Currently under 30-day Review--
Open for Public Comments'' or by using the search function. You can
also obtain copies of the proposed collection of information by
emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#632c3331260a0d050c000c0f0f0600170a0c0d230200054d0b0b104d040c15"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4a051a180f23242c25292526262f293e2325240a2b292c64222239642d253c">[email protected]</span></a>. Identify all requests by the
title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Human Services
Analysis Execution project is proposing to collect information for a
qualitative study to explore how families of different ethnic and
racial backgrounds have experienced changes that one state made to TANF
policies and services in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We will
explore policies such as job-search and other participation
requirements, virtual resources and services, and the provision of
tablet computers to TANF participants.
We will collect information at the state level and from three
purposively selected sites in one state, selected to represent the
racial and ethnic diversity within the state. The state-level data
collection will include (1) TANF program administrators and (2)
representatives from the program partnering with the state in the
provision of tablet computers to TANF program participants. Information
collection at each of the three sites will include semi-structured
interviews or focus groups with: (1) TANF program administrators,
frontline staff, and participants; and (2) community partner
organizations that serve TANF-eligible families and individuals served
by those organizations. Site visits will be conducted in-person or
virtually, depending on the state of the COVID-19 pandemic at the time
of the site visits.
This study is part of a larger project to help ACF identify racial
and ethnic disparities in related to the delivery of human services.
This study is intended to present an internally-valid description
of how different racial and ethnic groups experience TANF policies,
practices, and service delivery in one state at selected sites, not to
promote statistical generalization to other sites or service
populations.
Respondents: (1) State and regional TANF agency administrators, (2)
TANF frontline staff at the site-level, (3) staff at community agencies
that serve TANF-eligible families, (4) staff from the computer tablet
program and from program partner organizations, (5) TANF participants,
(6) tablet program participants, and (7) individuals who are eligible
for TANF but not enrolled.
Annual Burden Estimates
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Number of
Number of responses per Average
respondents respondent burden per Total burden Annual burden
Instrument (total over (total over response (in (in hours) (in hours)
request request hours)
period) period)
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Instrument A: State and Regional 8 1 1 8 4
TANF Administrators Guide
(Interviews)...................
Instrument B: Local Frontline 10 1 1 10 5
Staff Guide (Interviews).......
Instrument B: Local Frontline 10 1 1.5 15 8
Staff Guide (Focus Groups).....
Instrument C: Community-Based 6 1 1 6 3
Organizations Guide
(Interviews)...................
Instrument D: Tablet Providers 6 1 1 6 3
and Program Partners Guide
(Interviews)...................
Instrument E: TANF Participants 40 1 1 40 20
Guide (Interviews).............
Instrument E: TANF Participants 20 1 1.5 30 15
Guide (Focus Groups)...........
Instrument F: Tablet Program 10 1 1.5 15 8
Participants Guide (Focus
Groups)........................
Instrument G: Individuals 15 1 1 15 8
Eligible but Not Receiving TANF
Guide (Interviews).............
Instrument G: Individuals 15 1 1.5 23 12
Eligible but Not Receiving TANF
Guide (Focus Groups)...........
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours: 86.
Authority: Section 413 of the Social Security Act, as amended by
the FY 2017 Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2017 (Pub. L. 115-31).
Mary B. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2022-20571 Filed 9-21-22; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 4184-09-P
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