Reports by topic

The Minnesota Department of Human Services publishes reports and studies on various topics related to helping families with low incomes transition to economic stability. This page contains links to reports the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), child care and child support.

Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Reports

The Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) is Minnesota’s welfare reform program. MFIP helps families work their way out of poverty by expecting, supporting and rewarding work. Activity is tracked and analyzed in different ways.

Current statistics

A regular report with data on cash, food and medical programs is published by the Reports and Forecasts Division, entitled Family Self-Sufficiency and Health Care Program Statistics on Cases, Persons and Expenditures (PDF).

MFIP Trends Reports

Current month (PDF)

Briefs synthesize research on key themes

The Welfare Research Briefs series attempts to distill and present one-page summaries on important topics about economic assistance in Minnesota, including:

MFIP County Specific Report

MFIP Management Indicators Report

MFIP Monthly Report

MFIP Performance Measures by Racial/Ethnic or Immigrant Group and County

Evaluation Notes Series

  • • Issue 3: Reforming welfare and rewarding work; a summary of the final report on the MFIP field trials (PDF)
  • • Issue 4: Barriers to employment (PDF)
  • • Issue 8: A New Outcome Measure for MFIP: The Self-support Index (replaced by Issue 15)
  • • Issue 9: Leveling the playing field: measuring county MFIP performance (PDF)
  • • Issue 10: The MFIP participation rate (replaced by Issue 18)
  • • Issue 11: Lessons learned from Five Car Programs operated in Minnesota (Mar 2004) (PDF)
  • • Issue 15: Updated information on the MFIP Self-support Index (June 2006) (PDF)
  • • Issue 16: Diversionary Work Program caseload cost and cost impact (October 2006) (PDF)
  • • Issue 17: Racial disparities in the Minnesota Family Investment Program (February 2009) (PDF)
  • • Issue 18: The TANF Work Participation Rate (April 2009) (PDF)
  • • Issue 19: Leveling the Playing Field: A regression model for comparing the effectiveness of TANF employment services across Minnesota counties and tribal programs (April 2009) (PDF)
  • • Issue 20: Family Stabilization Services for MFIP Participants: Data from the first year (Jan. 2010) (PDF)
  • • Issue 21: The Growing Food Support Caseload (PDF)
  • • Issue 22: Employability Measure Completion Rate (PDF)
  • • Issue 23: Increased Food Support Income Limits and Elimination of the Asset Test: Effects on the caseload (PDF)
  • • Issue 24: Disparities Reduction Innovation Projects: Summary Report 2009 through 2011 (PDF)
  • • Issue 25: Evaluation of the 2012 Innovation Funds Subsidized Wage Program (PDF)

    • MFIP and DWP caseload special supplement available

    Since 1997, when Minnesota ended Aid to Families with Dependent Children and began statewide implementation of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP), DHS has produced a snapshot of the universe of cases and participants in Minnesota’s family cash assistance programs. A supplement to this report series, Minnesota’s Family Cash Assistance Caseload: A Ten-Year Retrospective (PDF), is available.

    MFIP and DWP Caseload and Participant Characteristics Reports

  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and Diversionary Work Program: Characteristics of December 2012 Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and Diversionary Work Program: Characteristics of December 2011 Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and Diversionary Work Program: Characteristics of December 2010 Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Diversionary Work Program: Characteristics of December 2009 Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Diversionary Work Program: Characteristics of December 2008 Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Characteristics of December 2007 Minnesota Family Assistance Programs: Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)
  • • Characteristics of December 2006 Minnesota Family Assistance Programs: Cases and Eligible Adults (PDF)

    • Long-term review of welfare reform completed

    The final installment of a multi-year study of the impact of the Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) on early participants is now available in a special summary report (PDF). The complete report, “Five Years from Baseline and Beyond,” can be accessed by going to the complete list of the longitudinal study series below.

    MFIP Longitudinal Study Reports (Series)

    MFIP Sixty-month Time Limit Reports

  • • At the Limit: MFIP Participants Reaching the Time Limit in 2011 (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2010 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2009 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2008 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2007 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2006 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • At the Limit: December 2005 Minnesota Family Investment Program (MFIP) Cases that Reached the 60-Month Time Limit (PDF)
  • • The Welfare Time Limit in Minnesota: A Survey of Families Who Lost MFIP Eligibility as a Result of the Five-Year Time Limit (PDF)

    • Reports on Special Projects

  • • The Four Rs of Service Delivery for MFIP Teen Parents: Approaches of Eight Minnesota Counties
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program Child-only Cases, Caregivers and Children (June 2010) (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Family Investment Program and Children’s Mental Health Pilot Evaluation (January 2010) (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Integrated Services Project: Final Report on Initiative to Improve Outcomes for Hard-to-Employ Welfare Recipients (January 2009) (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Integrated Services Project: Voices of Program Participants (March 2008) (PDF)
  • • Minnesota Integrated Services Project: Participant Characteristics and Program Implementation (2007) (PDF)
  • • Employability Measure Pilot Study Final Report (December 2006) (PDF)
  • • Report to the Minnesota Legislature: Proposal for a County Performance Measurement System for the Minnesota Family Investment Program (January 2003) (PDF)
  • • LIGSS (Local Intervention Grants for Self-Sufficiency): Lessons Learned (January 2003) (PDF)

    • Welfare Reform Outcomes of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in Minnesota: Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Studies (REIS) Series

  • • December 2010 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Diversionary Work Program October 2011 (PDF)
  • • December 2009 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Diversionary Work Program, August 2010 (PDF)
  • • December 2008 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in the Minnesota Family Investment Program and the Diversionary Work Program, November 2009 (PDF)
  • • December 2007 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in Minnesota Family Assistance Programs, February 2009 (PDF)
  • • December 2006 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in Minnesota Family Assistance Programs, October 2007 (PDF)
  • • December 2005 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in Minnesota Family Assistance Programs, February 2007 (PDF)
  • • December 2004 Characteristics of Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups in Minnesota Family Assistance program, June 2006 (PDF)
  • • Characteristics of December 2003 Minnesota Family Investment Program Cases and Eligible Adults by Racial/Ethnic Groups and Subgroups, November, 2004 (PDF)
  • • Measuring Minnesota Family Investment Program Performance for Racial/Ethnic and Immigrant Groups, November 2003 (PDF)
  • • Provider Perspectives on the Issues Behind the Outcomes, June 2003 (PDF)

    • Child Care

  • • Working in Minnesota: Parents’ Employment and Earnings in the Child Care Assistance Program (PDF) July 2004, by Marcie Jefferys, Ph.D. and Elizabeth Davis, Ph.D. University of Minnesota. A Briefing Paper (PDF) of that report is also available.
  • • Tiered Reimbursement in Minnesota Child Care Settings July 2004 (PDF) by Kathryn Tout, Ph. D. and Martha Zaslow, Ph. D. Child Trends. A Briefing Paper (PDF) of that report is also available.

    • Child Support


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