[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 242 (Monday, December 17, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 74666-74667]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-30155]


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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES

Administration for Children and Families


Submission for OMB Review; Comment Request

    Title: Understanding the Dynamics of Disconnection from Employment 
and Assistance.
    OMB No.: New Collection.
    Description: The Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 
Administration for Children and Families (ACF), U.S. Department of 
Health and Human Services (HHS), is proposing a data collection 
activity to improve understanding of low-income individuals and 
families who are disconnected from employment and from public 
assistance and particularly those not receiving cash assistance through 
the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program. ACF is 
proposing to use a discussion guide to collect qualitative information. 
The guide will be used to interview respondents in order to learn about 
their experiences with disconnection. Topics will include recent 
employment and reasons for not working; use of public benefit programs 
and reasons for using or not using specific benefits; their financial 
circumstances and material well-being including the stability and 
sources of income, housing and living arrangements; their coping 
strategies for addressing their circumstances; and their views on 
potential pathways to improve their financial and material well-being.
    Information will be collected in two sites with relatively high 
concentrations of low-income families: Los Angeles, California and 
Southeast Michigan. Respondents will be sampled from two existing 
longitudinal surveys in those sites: The Best Start Los Angeles Pilot 
Community Evaluation, currently led by the Urban Institute's Health 
Policy Center and the Center for Healthier Children, Families and 
Communities at the University of California Los Angeles (UCLA), and the 
Michigan Recession and Recovery Study OIRTO, conducted by the National 
Poverty Center of the University of Michigan.
    Respondents: Low-income women who have resident children and who 
are neither employed nor receiving TANF or Supplemental Security Income 
(SSI) for themselves. Women who are currently employed or receiving 
TANF may be included in the study if they experienced at least six 
months of unemployment in the past two years, had a child Lid were 
unmarried during the period of unemployment, and were not receiving 
TANF at the time.

                                             Annual Burden Estimates
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                                                                     Number of    Average burden
                   Instrument                      Annual number   responses per     hours per     Total annual
                                                  of respondents    respondent       response      burden hours
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Advertisement Script (LA).......................             300               1            0.1               30
Telephone Recruitment script and Screener (LA)..             100               1            0.25              25
Follow-up Telephone Script to Schedule Interview              36               1            0.05               2
 (LA)...........................................
Consent Form for Interviews (LA)................              36               1            0.2                7
Receipt of Payment Form (LA)....................              36               1            0.03               1
Consent Form for Linking Data (LA)..............              36               1            0.08               3
Telephone Recruitment Script and Screener (MI)..              35               1            0.25               9
Consent Form for Interviews (MI)................              30               1            0.2                6
Conversation Guide (LA and MI)..................              66              90            1.5               99
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    Estimated Total Annual burden hours: 182.
    Additional Information: Copies of the proposed collection may be 
obtained by writing to the Administration for Children and Families, 
Office of Planning, Research and Evaluation, 370 L'Enfant Promenade 
SW., Washington, DC 20447, Attn: OPRE Reports Clearance Officer. All 
requests should be identified by the title of the information 
collection. Email address: [email protected].
    OMB Comment: OMB is required to make a decision concerning 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

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within 30 days of publication. Written comments and recommendations for 
the proposed information collection should be sent directly to the 
following: Office of Management and Budget, Paperwork Reduction 
Project, Email: OIRA [email protected], Attn: Desk Officer for the 
Administration for Children and Families.

Steven M. Hanmer,
OPRE Reports Clearance Officer.
[FR Doc. 2012-30155 Filed 12-14-12; 8:45 am]
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