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Book Proposed State Plan for North Dakota s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Program

Download or read book Proposed State Plan for North Dakota s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Program written by North Dakota. Department of Human Services and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

Download or read book Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program written by North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 11 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Other States Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Initiatives

Download or read book Other States Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Initiatives written by North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 2 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Download or read book Temporary Assistance for Needy Families written by North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Vision Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Bismarck North Dakota

Download or read book Vision Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Bismarck North Dakota written by North Dakota. Office of State Auditor and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Temporary Assistance to Needy Families TANF Characteristics of TANF Recipients

Download or read book Temporary Assistance to Needy Families TANF Characteristics of TANF Recipients written by North Dakota. Department of Human Services. Research and Statistics Unit and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 30 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Study of the Monitoring of North Dakota s Welfare Reform Implementation Including the Implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program

Download or read book Study of the Monitoring of North Dakota s Welfare Reform Implementation Including the Implementation of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Program written by North Dakota. Legislative Assembly. Legislative Council and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Block Grant

Download or read book The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families TANF Block Grant written by Gene Falk and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant provides federal grants to states for a wide range of benefits, services, and activities. It is best known for helping states pay for cash welfare for needy families with children, but it funds a wide array of additional activities. TANF was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193). TANF funding and program authority were extended through FY2010 by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA, P.L. 109-171). TANF provides a basic block grant of $16.5 billion to the 50 states and District of Columbia, and $0.1 billion to U.S. territories. Additionally, 17 states qualify for supplemental grants that total $319 million. TANF also requires states to contribute from their own funds at least $10.4 billion for benefits and services to needy families with children -- this is known as the maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. States may use TANF and MOE funds in any manner "reasonably calculated" to achieve TANF's statutory purpose. This purpose is to increase state flexibility to achieve four goals: (1) provide assistance to needy families with children so that they can live in their own homes or the homes of relatives; (2) end dependence of needy parents on government benefits through work, job preparation, and marriage; (3) reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies; and (4) promote the formation and maintenance of two-parent families. Though TANF is a block grant, there are some strings attached to states' use of funds, particularly for families receiving "assistance" (essentially cash welfare). States must meet TANF work participation standards or be penalised by a reduction in their block grant. The law sets standards stipulating that at least 50% of all families and 90% of two-parent families must be participating, but these statutory standards are reduced for declines in the cash welfare caseload. (Some families are excluded from the participation rate calculation.) Activities creditable toward meeting these standards are focused on work or are intended to rapidly attach welfare recipients to the workforce; education and training is limited. Federal TANF funds may not be used for a family with an adult that has received assistance for 60 months. This is the five-year time limit on welfare receipt. However, up to 20% of the caseload may be extended beyond the five years for reason of "hardship", with hardship defined by the states. Additionally, states may use funds that they must spend to meet the TANF MOE to aid families beyond five years. TANF work participation rules and time limits do not apply to families receiving benefits and services not considered "assistance". Child care, transportation aid, state earned income tax credits for working families, activities to reduce out-of-wedlock pregnancies, activities to promote marriage and two-parent families, and activities to help families that have experienced or are "at risk" of child abuse and neglect are examples of such "nonassistance".