50-State Policy Tracker

Eligibility Criteria

Income eligibility criteria

Annual Income (Entrance Eligibility) Limit for a family of 3

Annual Income Exit Eligibility Limit for a family of 3

Benefits

Cost to family

Co-payment as percent of income for family of 3 at 150% of federal poverty guideline, 1 child in care

Participants

Number of recipients

Number of recipients (families)

Number of recipients (children)

Spending

Total spending

Total spending (state and federal)

Eligibility Criteria and Benefits

Unpaid Family and Medical Leave

Employee threshold

Minimum hours worked in previous year needed to qualify

Length of leave allowed

Paid Family Leave

Length of paid family leave allowed

Percent of wage replacement

Cap of weekly benefit amount

Paid family leave has job protection

Length of Temporary Disability Insurance (TDI) leave allowed for pregnancy and childbirth

Employer Sick Leave

Employee threshold for state-mandated paid sick leave

Minimum earned sick days for full-time workers

State law requires employers to allow use of sick leave to care for children

Waiting period for use of sick leave

Tax burden

Income tax burden for single-parent family of 3 at 100% of federal poverty threshold

Income tax burden for two-parent family of 4 at 100% of federal poverty threshold

Tax Liability

Income tax threshold for single-parent family of 3

Income tax threshold for two-parent family of 4

Miniumum Wage

State minimum wage is above the federal rate ($7.25)

Indexed to inflation

Insurance by child age

Medicaid income limit as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), children ages 0-1

Medicaid income limit as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), children ages 1-5

Medicaid income limit as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), children ages 6-18

Upper Income Limit for Medicaid and/or CHIP eligibility as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), children ages 0-18

Insurance by family

Medicaid income limit as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), pregnant women

Medicaid income limit as % of federal poverty guideline (FPG), parents of dependent children

Monthly Medicaid/CHIP premium payments for 2 children in a family of 3 at 151% of federal poverty guideline (FPG)

Monthly Medicaid/CHIP premium payments for 2 children in a family of 3 at 201% of federal poverty guideline (FPG)

Eligibility Criteria

Income eligibility criteria

Broad-based categorical eligibility

Gross income eligibility limit as % of Federal Poverty Guideline

Asset eligibility criteria

Asset limit

Eligibility Criteria

Income eligibility criteria

Income limit for family with at least one qualifying child

Benefits

Benefit level

Refundable credit available

Percent of Federal CDCTC

Benefits

Benefit level

Refundable credit available

Percent of federal EITC

Eligibility Criteria

Income eligibility criteria

Maximum monthly income for initial eligibility for a single-parent family of three

Asset eligibility criteria

Asset limit for applicants

Benefits

Benefit level

Maximum monthly cash benefit, single-parent family of three with no income

Time limit on benefit receipt

Lifetime TANF time limit

Eligibility Criteria

Spending per recipient

Average weekly benefit amount

Benefit Level

Maximum number of weeks of benefits

Maximum weekly benefit (not counting dependents)

Maximum dependent allowance provided