The Social Science Case for a Flexible Benefit Set
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The Social Science Case for a Flexible Benefit Set
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2022-05
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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 Olmsted 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 living wage, and eliminating benefit cliffs. In 2019, legislation to fund a pilot of the FBS did not pass. Our study was motivated by the P2PW team's need to secure support from legislators or private funders to launch a pilot of the FBS and test out its innovative design. In order to equip the P2PW team with the evidence they need tp itch the program to funders, we conducted a literature review organized around five of the core principles of the FBS.
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Capstone paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy degree.
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Hurley, Tyler; Lecheler, Tegan; Proescholdt, Laura; Schoppa, Isabelle; Siljander, Bridget. (2022). The Social Science Case for a Flexible Benefit Set. Retrieved from the University Digital Conservancy, https://hdl.handle.net/11299/229542.
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