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This Information Memorandum provides policy guidance on the use of Federal TANF and State MOE funds to support healthy marriage activities and clarifies that activities supporting healthy marriage are reasonably calculated to meet a TANF purpose.  It also presents examples of marriage activities that some States have adopted to address healthy marriage.

This Information Memorandum explains recently implemented enhancements to ACF's web-based reporting option for aggregate data under the TANF Data Reporting System.

This Information Memorandum provides information about the provision in the Public Housing Reform Act of 1998 that requires PHAs to make their best efforts to enter into cooperation agreements with TANF agencies in order to both facilitate assistance in verifying resident compliance with requirements of the Public Housing Reform Act, and to establish services targeting the needs of assisted housing families.
 

This Information Memoradum provides guidance to States on best practices for reduction of improper payments.

To encourage TANF agencies to provide career pathway opportunities for TANF recipients and other low-income individuals.

The purpose of this information memorandum (IM) is to strongly encourage all human service agencies including child welfare agencies, courts, offices of child support enforcement, offices of public assistance, offices of child care, Head Start programs and family and youth services programs to work together across governments to jointly create and maintain an environment that prioritizes father engagement as a critical factor in strengthening families and adopt approaches to enhance paternal involvement in all family support and child welfare related programs.

Work Participation Rates for FY 2021

Office of Family Assistance (OFA) Guidance for Use of the Pandemic Emergency Assistance Fund Appropriated in the American Rescue Plan (ARP) Act of 2021 (Pub. L. 117-2); Accompaniment to ACF-IOAS-DCL-22-01

This Information Memorandum explains how the referenced legislation affects award amounts for the FY 2011 TANF Contingency Fund and TANF Supplemental Grant award amounts and provides a table showing the award calculations.

This Information Memorandum transmits the FY 2009 work participation rates. All States were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2008 through September 2009. The FY 2009 national average overall work participation rate was 29.4 percent. Five States, the District of Columbia, and two Territories failed to meet their overall work participation rate requirements. The FY 2009 national average two-parent families work participation rate was 28.3 percent. Six States and one Territory failed to meet their two-parent families work participation requirement. (Twenty-four States, the District of Columbia, and two Territories were not subject to the two-parent work participation requirement due to the manner in which they structured their programs.) The attached tables provide detailed State-by-State information regarding work participation rates and standards, caseload reduction credits, the number of work-eligible individuals, and activities in which individuals participated.