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To transmit the renewed form ACF-196TR and instructions for completing it.

The purpose of this program instruction is to provide State agencies with the TANF Data Report (TDR) form and related instructions and the SSP-MOE Data Report (SDR) form and related instructions that are effective for fiscal year 2021 and thereafter.

The purpose of this transmittal is to request October 2009 caseload data on the number of foster children supported with public funds and the number of children in families receiving TANF payments in excess of the poverty income level.  These data will be used by the Department of Education in its formula to allocate school year 2009-2010 Title I grants.

The purpose of this Program Instruction is to explain how to complete and submit the TANF Agency NDNH Match Results Report and to specify submission deadlines.

Collecting and Repaying Overpayments Made to Families under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program and the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program

This Program Instruction transmits the new form ACF-202 and instructions for completing that form, which States must use to report caseload reduction information for fiscal year 2007 and thereafter.

The purpose of this program memorandum is to provide State agencies with (a) new electronic reporting requirements for the Medicaid and SCHIP measures and (b) quarterly submission dates for transmitting monthly files of adult TANF recipients necessary to compute HPB scores, if the State wishes to compete on this HPB measure.


 

This Program Instructions 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 PI on this topic (see TANF-ACF-PI-2004-02 dated May 14, 2004).  A new PI is necessary because of a reorganization of the Office of Family Assistance and the need to clarify certain aspects of the process.

This Program Instruction explains the use of TANF funds to recover Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) overpayments.  Under the former AFDC program, States were required to take appropriate action to collect all overpayments, either through repayments or recoupment (grant reduction).  Collections were retained by the State, reported quarterly and the grant award was adjusted to recover the Federal share (FMAP) of the assistance payment.

With the enactment of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), ACF issued a series of three “program instructions” that required States to continue to pursue AFDC overpayments made prior to October 1, 1996 and refund the Federal share. TANF-ACF-PI-2000-2 dated September 1, 2000 rescinded the prior program instructions and required States to remit the Federal share of recovered AFDC overpayments made prior to October 1, 1996 to ACF via check.  The policy to pursue and return the Federal share of AFDC overpayments made prior to October 1, 1996 is still in place.  Recoveries of overpayments paid to recipients on or after October 1, 1996 were to be retained by the State and used for TANF program costs.  While not explicitly stated in TANF-ACF-PI-2000, the reason for the difference in treatment between the two timeframes is that appropriations law requires public funds to be used only in the program and for the purposes for which they were appropriated, except as otherwise provided by law.

Beginning in fiscal year 2000, the HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) began audits of 24 State programs and three California counties to determine whether States had properly collected and refunded AFDC overpayment recoveries to the Federal government, in accordance with the program instruction.  For those States which had not complied, the OIG recommended that the States refund the Federal share to ACF.

The follow-up discussion with States about the policy and appropriations law principles has raised the question as to whether TANF funds can be used for the costs to recover AFDC overpayments, if AFDC collections cannot be retained and used in the TANF program.

This Program Instruction informs States of the approval of Form ACF-196 by the Office of Management and Budget (OMB).  Approved under OMB #0970-0247.