How do low-income single-mothers get by when unemployment strikes: Patterns of multiple program participation after transition from employment to unemployment.

ABSTRACT: Little is known about longitudinal patterns of welfare program participation among single mothers after they transition from employment to unemployment. To better understand how utilization patterns of these welfare programs may change during the 12 months after a job loss, we used the 2008 Survey of Income and Program Participation to examine the patterns of participation in Medicaid, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, and unemployment insurance among 342 single mothers who transitioned from employment to unemployment during the Great Recession. Using sequence analysis and cluster analysis, this paper identified four distinct patterns of program participation: (a) constantly receiving in-kind benefits; (b) primarily but not solely recei

SUBMITTER: Wu CF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9499290 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature