Welcome to the California Department of Social Services, Welfare-to-Work Division’s County
Performance Incentive Overall Expenditure Plan website.
California operates a state supervised, county administered Temporary Assistance for Needy
Families (TANF) program. As part of California’s TANF program, state-implementing legislation
(Chapter 270, Statutes of 1997) established a county performance incentive program that allows
counties to qualify to receive incentive payments from the TANF block grant if they meet certain
client employment goals. Counties were required to submit plans to the California Department of
Social Services on the intended use of their performance incentive funds. This site displays in
a database format the information contained in the performance incentive county plans. To obtain
specific information from various fields within the plan, the system includes search
capabilities or filter functions.
Before entering the site, we encourage you to read the following information.
There are instructions on how to maneuver in the database that will be helpful to you.
We recommend you print out these instructions. click here to instructions
When you first enter the Performance Incentive Funds Plan Matrix (database), the view screen
defaults to all counties listed in alphabetical order (5 records per screen). The following
describes each field/column:
The 
symbol is an information point. Put your mouse over one to see
a description of the item. Some are also links to other pages that describe the item in detail.
Column 1 - County Name
List the county name.
Column 2 - Title of Project
Name given to project by the County.
- To view an expanded description of the project, double-click on the title of the
specific project title; pop-up menu appears. YOU MUST MANUALLY CLOSE THIS WINDOW
BEFORE ACCESSING ANOTHER PROJECT’S EXPANDED DESCRIPTION.
- To print the pop-up expanded description; right click the mouse and a menu will
appear with options. Select "print"; print menu should appear.
Column 3 - Category (Click here to view category list)
Projects have been grouped into major strategies with examples of focuses.
To view legend, click on "Click here to view category list".
Column 4 - TANF Purpose (Click here to view TANF purposes)
Counties are allowed to expend their performance incentive funds in any way allowable
under federal law. Federal law allows for expenditure of funds in any manner that can be
reasonably calculated to accomplish the goals of the TANF program or for specific activities
that had been in California’s approved Title IV-A (or IV-F plan effective as of September 30,
1995.) This field identifies the TANF goal (purpose) that the project will accomplish. To view
the four TANF purposes, click on (Click here to view legend).
Column 5 - Total Proposed Funds
This is the amount the county is proposing to obligate for the specific project.
This amount may include resources other than performance incentive funds.
Column 6 - Target Population
- CW Only (CalWORKs only) - This is a "Yes/No" field. Yes, means the project
targets only CalWORKs eligibles. No, means the county proposes to provide services to CalWORKs
and non-CalWORKs eligibles.
- Focus of Program - Identifies what population the project is focusing on: youth, families,
Limited-English Proficient (LEP), emancipated foster care youth, etc.
Column 7 - Counts Toward Expanded Needy Family Definition
This is a "Yes/No" field and identifies if the county is obligating
performance incentive funds to be applied toward the expanded "needy family"
definition.
California legislation allows up to 25 percent of a county’s total performance
incentive funds to be spent on families meeting the expanded needy family definition.
Chapter 108, Statutes of 2000 (AB 2876) defines "needy families" as those families
not receiving aid under CalWORKs in which the minor child is living with a parent or adult
relative caregiver and the family’s income is less than 200 percent of the official federal
poverty level (FPL) guidelines applicable to the family size. This definition is exclusively
for the purpose of providing non-assistance services using performance incentive funds pursuant
to federal regulations.
Column 8 - Percent That Counts Toward Expanded Needy Families
Identifies the percent of the total funds the county has proposed to go towards
the expanded needy family definition.
Column 9 - Amount Planned for Expanded Needy Families
Identifies the amount of performance incentive funds the county has proposed to
obligate that meets the expanded needy families definition.
Column 10 - In-House Staff or Contract
Identifies if the county intends to provide services with county staff or through
contracted providers. S = In-House Staff; C = Contracted Providers.
Column 11 - Provisional or Final
Identifies if the submitted county performance incentive fund plan is preliminary
or has received final county approval;
P = Provisional; F = Final.
Please call the Employment Bureau at (916) 654-2137 if you have any questions on the operation of the database.
FURTHER CLARIFICATION REGARDING SPECIFIC PROGRAMS SHOULD BE OBTAINED FROM THE INDIVIDUAL
COUNTY.
