 In areas where VIEW existed for twelve months, 74 percent were employed versus only 31 percent nationally.According to the Virginia Department of Health and Human Resource's 1996 annual report, VIEW saved taxpayers 24 million dollar in its first year of existence; with an addition to federal welfare money, the savings total over the following two years comes to just over $70 million

The Allen Administration's welfare reform law also addressed concerns over single-parent recipients of welfare requiring mothers to name the child's father and provide three additional pieces of information to help locate the non-custodial parent or face loss of all TANF benefits.Since 1995, Virginia has achieved a 98.5 percent rate of paternity identification, the highest in the country.