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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
| Office: |
Office of Integrated Access and Support |
| Program: |
Temporary Assistance to Needy Families |
| Budget Estimate: |
$5,916,931 |
| Federal Agency(s) |
Social Security Administration / Health & Human Services |
Details:
- No dollars were appropriated for any increase in the TANF grant allocation.
- The ARRA creates an emergency contingency fund from which States can request quarterly grants for three purposes:
- Caseload increases
- Increased expenditures related to non-recurrent short term benefits
- Increased expenditures for subsidized employment
These services are matched at 80% federal / 20% state and the dollars must be in addition to what the program has spent in the past.
- Eligibility for payments from the fund will be triggered if the state’s numbers (caseload data or expenditures) for a given quarter exceed those for the corresponding quarter in the emergency fund base year (either 2007 or 2008) where the state’s enrollment or expenditure data were the lowest.
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