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Jacqueline F. Kauff
Senior Researcher
Jacqueline Kauff is a senior researcher who specializes in evaluating programs for hard-to-employ welfare recipients and individuals living with disabilities, as well as programs designed to increase access among low-income families to public assistance benefits.
Kauff, who has been with Mathematica for more than 14 years, is directing an evaluation of an initiative designed to increase access to Supplemental Security Income (SSI) among homeless individuals with disabilities and an evaluation of demonstration projects designed to increase access to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits among the elderly and working poor. She is also directing a national scan of efforts that promote access to public benefits through web-based tools and outreach and in-depth case studies of a subset of those efforts.
Kauff’s past work includes serving as principal investigator on a project to identify and document promising strategies for assisting Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) recipients living with disabilities to obtain and maintain employment. In addition, she recently completed several projects to examine how states and local welfare offices are changing their policies and service delivery systems to meet the higher TANF work participation rates required by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.
Kauff frequently presents research findings to policy, practitioner, and professional groups. She holds an M.S.W. from the University of Pennsylvania.
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- Areas of Expertise
- Key Projects
- Professional Activities
- Publications
- Evaluating programs for hard-to-employ welfare recipients and individuals living with disabilities
- Programs designed to increase access among low-income families to public assistance benefits
- Puerto Rico Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Feasibility Study
- Evaluation of Reaching the Underserved Elderly and Working Poor in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Fiscal Year 2009 Pilots
- Evaluation of the Supplemental Security Income/Social Security Disability Insurance Outreach, Access, and Recovery Initiative
- Member of the Association of Public Policy and Management and the National Association of Social Workers
- "Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach" (December 2011)
- "Web-Based Screeners and Applications: Potential Tools for Improving Benefit Access and Program Efficiency." ASPE Issue Brief (September 2011)
- "Promoting Public Benefits Access Through Web-Based Tools and Outreach: A National Scan of Efforts. Volume I: Background, Efforts in Brief, and Related Initiatives" (April 2011)