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Receiving TANF or Government Assistance (5.8.4.2N)

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In light of interest in overlaps between the A2H clientele and the public assistance system, it is also useful to translate the previous data on the use of TANF and General Assistance into estimates of the absolute numbers of people who receive A2H help and are in these programs.  This is done in Table 5.8.4.1N.

Table 5.8.4.1N
ESTIMATED NUMBER OF CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS RECEIVING TANF OR GA DURING PREVIOUS MONTH

Did You (or Anyone in Your Household) Get Money in the Last Month from Any of the Following? a	Pantry Client Households	Kitchen Client Households	Shelter Client Households	All Client Households
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)	472,400	38,200	22,300	519,300
General Assistance (GA)	566,000	92,100	75,400	755,700
ESTIMATED TOTAL NUMBER CLIENT HOUSEHOLDS	8,600,000	1,000,000	670,000	10,270,000

Notes:  
See Appendix B for the estimated number of people served in subgroups of A2H clients.

Columns in this table do not exactly add up to the column total.  This discrepancy occurs because tables showing percentage distributions are weighted with the monthly weight, while the number of clients presented in this table is estimated at the annual level.  Because the relationship between the monthly and annual weights varies across individuals depending on the frequency of visits to program sites, applying annual estimates to a monthly snapshot of percentage distributions results in small discrepancies in column totals.

a Multiple responses were accepted.

Nearly 1.3 million A2H client households receive TANF or General Assistance:

• Approximately 0.5 million pantry client households receiving TANF and almost 0.6 million receiving General Assistance.
• The relevant numbers for kitchen and shelter clients are lower, with approximately 40,000 and 90,000 kitchen client households receiving TANF and General Assistance, respectively; the comparable numbers for shelter clients are 22,000 and 76,000.