Hurley, TylerLecheler, TeganProescholdt, LauraSchoppa, IsabelleSiljander, Bridget2022-07-252022-07-252022-05https://hdl.handle.net/11299/229542Capstone paper for the fulfillment of the Master of Public Policy degree.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.enflexible benefit setPathways to Prosperity and Wellbeingpublic assistancepublic benefitseliminating public benefits restrictionsThesis or Dissertation