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    The Social Science Case for a Flexible Benefit Set
    (2021-05-03) Hurley, Tyler; Lecheler, Tegan; Proescholdt, Laura; Schoppa, Isabelle; Siljander, Bridget
    The Flexible Benefit Set (FBS) is an integral part of Pathways to Prosperity and Wellbeing (P2PW), a human-centered design initiative to reform human services in Dakota County and Olmstead County. The FBS addresses the need to remodel public assistance delivery by streamlining funding through a single payment source and eliminating restrictions on how participants can spend public benefits. Our study examined the social science literature pertaining to five core principles of the FBS’s design: accessibility, centering equity, trusting families and flexibility, raising benefit cut-offs to the level of a living wage, and eliminating benefit cliffs.