Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on Program's
Employment Objective (Letter Report, 06/08/94, GAO/AIMD-94-44).

The Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training (JOBS) program is
intended to help people avoid long-term welfare dependence by providing
the education, training, work experiences, and services needed to obtain
jobs. Although additional effort will be needed by the Department of
Health and Human Services (HHS) and the states to correct lingering data
problems and incorporate further automation, the states have made
progress developing computer systems to support the JOBS program. These
systems, however, are narrowly focused on tracking program participants
and collecting and reporting data to HHS, missing the greater
opportunity that the systems could offer. Despite the millions of
dollars in welfare costs that could be saved by moving people off
welfare and into jobs, HHS failed to determine how information
technology could best be applied to help achieve this objective.

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 REPORTNUM:  AIMD-94-44
     TITLE:  Welfare to Work: JOBS Automated Systems Do Not Focus on 
             Program's Employment Objective
      DATE:  06/08/94
   SUBJECT:  Employment or training programs
             Computerized information systems
             Management information systems
             Welfare recipients
             Federal/state relations
             Reporting requirements
             State-administered programs
             Data integrity
             Systems design
             Information gathering operations
IDENTIFIER:  Job Opportunities and Basic Skills Training Program
             Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program
             AFDC
             Medicare Program
             Virgin Islands
             Puerto Rico
             Delaware
             Maryland
             Nebraska
             Oklahoma
             Pennsylvania
             Virginia
             Family Assistance Management Information System
             JOBS Program
             
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