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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 eliminates AFDC's open-ended entitlement and creates a block grant for states to provide time-limited cash assistance for needy families, with work requirements for most recipients. The law also makes far-reaching changes to child care, the Child Support Enforcement Program, benefits for legal immigrants, the Food Stamp Program, and SSI for children. Modifications to the child nutrition program and reductions in the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) are also included.

This interim final rule implements the statutory changes enacted in the reauthorization of the TANF program though FY 2010 in the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005.

This final rule implements changes including a renewed focus on work, program integrity, and strengthening families through healthy marriage promotion and responsible fatherhood to the TANF program as required by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (DRA) (Pub. L. 109–171).

This document contains technical correcting amendments to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families final rule published on April 12, 1999 (64 FR 17720). The final rule implements key statutory provisions related to work, penalties, and data collection.

Subject Index To The TANF Regulation

This PI provides responses to a myriad of questions about the final rule implementing changes to the TANF program as required by the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005 (Pub. L. 109-171). Individual questions received subsequent to this PI will be posted to the OFA website.

This Program Announcement sets forth revised standard procedures for resolving disagreements over state-submitted caseload and expenditure data used to establish the amount of a TFAG.  This issuance supersedes and rescinds the original PA on this topic (see TANF-ACF-PA-99-1 dated June 18, 1999).  A new PA is necessary because of a reorganization of the Office of Family Assistance and the need to clarify certain aspects of the process.