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This Policy Announcement responds to the following questions posed by States regarding the use of State funds or Federal TANF funds to pay the costs of an optional food stamp program. These questions include: (1) whether State funds spent to provide food assistance under the State's optional food stamp program count toward the State's TANF maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement; and (2) whether a State may use Federal TANF funds to purchase food stamps for the State's optional food stamp program.

The purpose of this Program Instruction is to update the policy regarding the eligibility of Iraqi and Afghan aliens granted special immigrant status for Federal TANF and State MOE public benefits, as a result of legislation.

This Program Instruction addresses the change in the time-limited exemption period applicable to Afghan special immigrants. The Afghan Allies Protection Act of 2009 changed the time-limited exemption period from 6 months to 8 months. The 8 month exemption period for Iraqi special immigrants remains in effect per section 1244(g) of the NDAA 2008), enacted January 28, 2008.

This Program Instruction clarifies to States that costs for charity care incurred by hospitals are not allowable TANF maintenance-of-effort (MOE) expenditures.

To remind States of ways that Federal TANF funds (including TANF Emergency Fund awards issued as a result of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009) and State MOE funds can be used to assist individuals from eligible families in need of short-term mental health and substance use treatment services.

This Program Instruction restates the principles and clarifies the conditions under which States may use TANF dollars or claim MOE expenditures for a variety of State tax credits.

This Program Instruction informs States of TANF MOE levels which have been revised subsequent to the issuance of TANF-ACF-PI-96-2.

This Program Instruction explains the maintenance of effort requirements for State expenditures under the TANF program, outlines statutory penalties for failure to meet those requirements, and specifies State-by-State maintenance of effort expenditure levels.