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Response: We have decided to retain measures of Medicaid/SCHIP and food stamp participation in the final rule because we are committed to a high performance bonus system that rewards States not just for employment successes, but also for their efforts to support low-income families during their transitions. We believe these measures are consistent with, and support the statutory purposes of, TANF. By participating in Food Stamps and Medicaid or SCHIP, needy families receive the assistance they need to care for children in their homes (purpose one) and improve their chances of ending dependence on government benefits through work (purpose two) In fact, the bipartisan comments we received from Members of Congress on these measures uniformly supported their inclusion. In response to the technical and substantive concerns raised by the States and others, we very carefully considered all the suggestions for how to improve the measures and looked for ways to address the States' concerns. As you will find in the section-by-section analysis, we have made a number of changes that respond to the concerns. For example, we have made it more / explicit that States may choose of whether Jadd to compete on the Food Stamp measure (consistent with our approach 31 for all the measures) / dropped the "qualifying conditions" for both the Food Stamp and Medicaid/SCHIP measures (i.e. the threshold conditions that States had to meet in order to compete on these measures), added awards for absolute performance (not just improvement), and 25

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