Montgomery County Community Indicators

People Receiving Public Assistance

Location	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2005	2006	2007	2008	2009
Ohio	5.27	4.21	4.09	4.03	4.03	3.75	3.41	3.21	3.52	4.54
Butler	2.39	2.55	2.58	1.98	1.63	1.33	1.24	1.11	1.44	1.84
Cuyahoga	10.65	7.14	6.15	5.44	4.93	4.39	4.11	3.75	3.28	3.95
Franklin	5.91	4.91	5.61	5.77	5.69	5.30	4.84	5.18	6.45	7.48
Hamilton	5.77	5.63	5.52	5.45	5.78	5.45	4.48	4.49	4.93	6.58
Lorain	3.87	3.44	3.71	3.75	3.93	4.10	3.66	2.90	2.92	4.06
Lucas	10.63	8.15	8.22	8.43	9.97	10.12	9.41	7.79	7.21	8.13
Mahoning	8.96	6.11	5.65	6.01	6.53	6.27	6.08	6.80	7.82	9.25
Montgomery	4.88	4.57	5.16	5.67	5.59	5.08	4.37	4.36	5.06	6.62
Stark	6.99	5.90	5.69	5.53	5.41	4.69	4.08	4.10	4.44	5.31
Summit	9.43	6.87	6.47	6.39	6.27	5.32	4.71	4.69	5.29	6.74

Ohio Works First (OWF) is part of Ohio’s Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program and provides time-limited cash assistance to eligible needy families for up to 36 months. During that time, county departments of job and family services provide support to adult participants to become job-ready, obtain necessary job skills and find employment. The emphasis of OWF is self-sufficiency, personal responsibility and employment. Eligibility for OWF is governed by federal and state law. Each recipient is part of an “Assistance Group,” which, for practical purposes, can be considered a household. (On average, each Assistance Group has about 2.25 people.) Assistance Groups that are “Child Only” are excluded from this indicator. As a result this indicator tracks the proportion of people in the county who have work activity participation requirements in order to receive OWF.

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