{ "id": "R44518", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "R44518", "active": false, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 587243, "date": "2017-01-25", "retrieved": "2019-10-23T22:27:29.176806", "title": "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant Legislation in the 114th Congress", "summary": "P.L. 114-254, the further continuing resolution for FY2017, extended funding and program authority for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant through April 28, 2017. Though several bills that would have changed TANF policies were reported by the House Ways and Means Committee to the full House during the 114th Congress\u2014and one bill passed the House\u2014none were enacted.\nThe TANF block grant funds grants to states, tribes, and territories for providing benefits, services, and activities to broadly address both the effects and root causes of childhood economic and social disadvantage. It was created in the 1996 welfare reform law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), which culminated decades of debate over how to change public assistance programs for needy families with children. Most TANF policy dates back to the 1996 welfare law, as a full reauthorization of the block grant has never been enacted.\nOn June 21, 2016, the House passed H.R. 5170, a bill that would have established a demonstration project for \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d That bill also would have extended TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding for one year (FY2017) and revised TANF-related research funding. The bill did not pass the Senate. \nH.R. 5170, as it passed the House, would have established a mechanism through which state and local governments could apply to the Secretary of the Treasury for demonstration projects, which would have been called \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d These projects would have used funds provided through philanthropic and other private-sector partnerships to finance social programs to meet specified social goals. Under this type of financing, the government would \u201cpay off\u201d investors only when a program evaluation demonstrates that desired outcomes are met. H.R. 5170 would have funded social impact partnership demonstrations at $100 million, financed from a set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds. The bill would have required that at least 50% of funds provided for agreements awarding funding for social impact partnership projects be used for initiatives that directly benefit children. As it passed the House, H.R. 5170 would have also extended TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding through FY2017 and revised TANF research requirements and funding.\nH.R. 2990, as reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, would have created a demonstration project for subsidized employment programs for TANF assistance families. Subsidized employment programs are those where public funds are used to pay all or part of the wages, benefits, and other costs of employing an individual. Subsidized employment can be a part of TANF programs under current law. However, except for a brief period when such programs were financed from special funds enacted in response to the 2007-2009 recession, subsidized employment has been little used in TANF. The subsidized employment demonstration would have been funded at $100 million, financed from an additional set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds. The bill was not considered by the full House.\nThe House Ways and Means Committee also reported additional TANF bills: H.R. 2959 would have altered the rules for the TANF state spending requirement, H.R. 2966 would have added reducing child poverty as a statutory TANF goal, and H.R. 2952 would have established new employment outcome performance measures for TANF. 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The bill is now pending in the Senate. That bill was ordered reported from the House Ways and Means Committee in May 2016, along with separate bills making additional policy changes to TANF. As of November 30, 2016, those separate bills have not been considered by the full House.\nThe TANF block grant funds grants to states, tribes, and territories for providing benefits, services, and activities to broadly address both the effects and root causes of childhood economic and social disadvantage. It was created in the 1996 welfare reform law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), which culminated decades of debate over how to change public assistance programs for needy families with children. Most TANF policy dates back to the 1996 welfare law, as a full reauthorization of the block grant has never been enacted.\nH.R. 5170, as it passed the House, would establish a mechanism through which state and local governments could apply to the Secretary of the Treasury for demonstration projects, which would be called \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d These projects would use funds provided through philanthropic and other private-sector partnerships to finance social programs to meet specified social goals. The government would \u201cpay off\u201d investors only when a program evaluation demonstrates that desired outcomes are met. These programs would be funded at $100 million, financed from a set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds. The bill would require that at least 50% of funds provided for agreements awarding funding for social impact partnership projects be used for initiatives that directly benefit children. As it passed the House, H.R. 5170 would also extend TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding through FY2017 and revise TANF research requirements and funding.\nH.R. 2990, as reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, would create a demonstration project for subsidized employment programs for TANF assistance families. Subsidized employment programs are those where public funds are used to pay all or part of the wages, benefits, and other costs of employing an individual. Subsidized employment can be a part of TANF programs under current law. However, except for a brief period when such programs were financed from special funds enacted in response to the 2007-2009 recession, subsidized employment has been little used in TANF. The subsidized employment demonstration would be funded at $100 million, financed from an additional set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds.\nThe House Ways and Means Committee also reported additional TANF bills: H.R. 2959 would alter the rules for the TANF state spending requirement, H.R. 2966 would add reducing child poverty as a statutory TANF goal, and H.R. 2952 would establish new employment outcome performance measures for TANF.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44518", "sha1": "8d8dfc92fc8ce40d649aea49135eea1549091323", "filename": "files/20161130_R44518_8d8dfc92fc8ce40d649aea49135eea1549091323.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44518", "sha1": "6c31970371068ac46105119249096089398a72ca", "filename": "files/20161130_R44518_6c31970371068ac46105119249096089398a72ca.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4797, "name": "Cash Assistance" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 457203, "date": "2016-11-28", "retrieved": "2016-11-28T21:03:35.494686", "title": "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant Legislation in the 114th Congress", "summary": "A one-year extension of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) and mandatory child care funding and a demonstration project for \u201csocial impact partnership projects\u201d may be considered as part of the 21st Century Cures Act legislation. The House Rules Committee has posted legislation that includes these TANF and related provisions, to be considered as part of the proposed House amendment to the Senate amendment to H.R. 34. The TANF extension, mandatory child care funding, and social impact partnership demonstration had previously passed the House as H.R. 5170. \nThe TANF block grant funds grants to states, tribes, and territories for providing benefits, services, and activities to broadly address both the effects and root causes of childhood economic and social disadvantage. It was created in the 1996 welfare reform law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), which culminated decades of debate over how to change public assistance programs for needy families with children. Most TANF policy dates back to the 1996 welfare law, as a full reauthorization of the block grant has never been enacted.\nH.R. 5170, as it passed the House, would establish a mechanism through which state and local governments could apply to the Secretary of the Treasury for demonstration projects, which would be called \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d These projects would use funds provided through philanthropic and other private-sector partnerships to finance social programs to meet specified social goals. The government would \u201cpay off\u201d investors only when a program evaluation demonstrates that desired outcomes are met. These programs would be funded at $100 million, financed from a set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds. The bill would require that at least 50% of funds provided for agreements awarding funding for social impact partnership projects be used for initiatives that directly benefit children. As it passed the House, H.R. 5170 would also extend TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding through FY2017 and revise TANF research requirements and funding.\nH.R. 2990, as reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, would create a demonstration project for subsidized employment programs for TANF assistance families. Subsidized employment programs are those where public funds are used to pay all or part of the wages, benefits, and other costs of employing an individual. Subsidized employment can be a part of TANF programs under current law. However, except for a brief period when such programs were financed from special funds enacted in response to the 2007-2009 recession, subsidized employment has been little used in TANF. The subsidized employment demonstration would be funded at $100 million, financed from an additional set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds.\nThe House Ways and Means Committee also reported additional TANF bills: H.R. 2959 would alter the rules for the TANF state spending requirement, H.R. 2966 would add reducing child poverty as a statutory TANF goal, and H.R. 2952 would establish new employment outcome performance measures for TANF.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44518", "sha1": "9aefbdd5612e9443ba37d35ebbb75948001d73c8", "filename": "files/20161128_R44518_9aefbdd5612e9443ba37d35ebbb75948001d73c8.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44518", "sha1": "64f9f5bb4eff9fbf56e265ed4d7a664fda56cdee", "filename": "files/20161128_R44518_64f9f5bb4eff9fbf56e265ed4d7a664fda56cdee.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4797, "name": "Cash Assistance" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 454008, "date": "2016-06-30", "retrieved": "2016-10-17T19:47:54.621409", "title": "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant Legislation in the 114th Congress", "summary": "On June 21, 2016, the House passed H.R. 5170, a bill that would establish a demonstration project for \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d That bill would also extend TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding for one year (FY2017) and revise TANF-related research funding. The bill is now pending in the Senate. The bill was ordered reported from the House Ways and Means Committee in May 2016, along with separate bills making additional policy changes to TANF. As of June 30, 2016, those separate bills have not been considered by the full House.\nThe TANF block grant funds grants to states, tribes, and territories for providing benefits, services, and activities to broadly address both the effects and root causes of childhood economic and social disadvantage. It was created in the 1996 welfare reform law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), which culminated decades of debate over how to change public assistance programs for needy families with children. Most TANF policy dates back to the 1996 welfare law, as a full reauthorization of the block grant has never been enacted.\nH.R. 5170, as it passed the House, would establish a mechanism through which state and local governments could apply to the Secretary of the Treasury for demonstration projects, which would be called \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d These projects would use funds provided through philanthropic and other private-sector partnerships to finance social programs to meet specified social goals. The government would \u201cpay off\u201d investors only when a program evaluation demonstrates that desired outcomes are met. These programs would be funded at $100 million, financed from a set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds. The bill would require that at least 50% of funds provided for agreements awarding funding for social impact partnership projects be used for initiatives that directly benefit children. As it passed the House, H.R. 5170 would also extend TANF and mandatory child care block grant funding through FY2017 and revise TANF research requirements and funding.\nH.R. 2990, as reported by the House Ways and Means Committee, would create a demonstration project for subsidized employment programs for TANF assistance families. Subsidized employment programs are those where public funds are used to pay all or part of the wages, benefits, and other costs of employing an individual. Subsidized employment can be a part of TANF programs under current law. However, except for a brief period when such programs were financed from special funds enacted in response to the 2007-2009 recession, subsidized employment has been little used in TANF. The subsidized employment demonstration would be funded at $100 million, financed from an additional set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds.\nThe House Ways and Means Committee also reported additional TANF bills: H.R. 2959 would alter the rules for the TANF state spending requirement, H.R. 2966 would add reducing child poverty as a statutory TANF goal, and H.R. 2952 would establish new employment outcome performance measures for TANF.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44518", "sha1": "d3a13f6f91576984ef7c59e3aa4dbc18464319ac", "filename": "files/20160630_R44518_d3a13f6f91576984ef7c59e3aa4dbc18464319ac.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44518", "sha1": "943fe17c0926891fc8ad80e34262f866632fee9c", "filename": "files/20160630_R44518_943fe17c0926891fc8ad80e34262f866632fee9c.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4797, "name": "Cash Assistance" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 453453, "date": "2016-06-15", "retrieved": "2016-06-21T21:00:55.130819", "title": "The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant Legislation in the 114th Congress", "summary": "In May 2016, the House Ways and Means Committee approved six bills related to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. The bills include separate demonstration projects of social impact partnerships and subsidized employment, as well as four bills altering specific provisions of TANF.\nThe TANF block grant funds grants to states, tribes, and territories for providing benefits, services, and activities to broadly address both the effects and root causes of childhood economic and social disadvantage. It was created in the 1996 welfare reform law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193), which culminated decades of debate over how to change public assistance programs for needy families with children. Most TANF policy dates back to the 1996 welfare law, as a full reauthorization of the block grant has never been enacted.\nH.R. 5170 would establish a mechanism through which state and local governments could apply to the Secretary of the Treasury for demonstration projects, which would be called \u201csocial impact partnership projects.\u201d These projects would use funds provided through philanthropic and other private-sector partnerships to finance social programs to meet specified social goals. The government would \u201cpay off\u201d investors only when a program evaluation demonstrates that desired outcomes are met. These programs would be funded at $100 million, financed from a set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds.\nH.R. 2990 would create a demonstration project for subsidized employment programs for TANF assistance families. Subsidized employment programs are those where public funds are used to pay all or part of the wages, benefits, and other costs of employing an individual. Subsidized employment can be a part of TANF programs under current law. However, except for a brief period when such programs were financed from special funds enacted in response to the 2007-2009 recession, subsidized employment has been little used in TANF. The subsidized employment demonstration is funded at $100 million, financed from an additional set-aside from FY2017 TANF contingency funds.\nThe House Ways and Means Committee also reported four additional TANF bills: H.R. 2959 would alter the rules for the TANF state spending requirement, H.R. 2966 would add reducing child poverty as a statutory TANF goal, H.R. 2952 would establish new employment outcome performance measures for TANF, and H.R. 5169 would continue TANF research and create a \u201cwhat works\u201d database of welfare initiatives and research.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/R44518", "sha1": "7dcf8967976c99aea390523ddc4c0fc226f762bb", "filename": "files/20160615_R44518_7dcf8967976c99aea390523ddc4c0fc226f762bb.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/R44518", "sha1": "6a06110a98f9dde3bf4536daf4c3083986fcfadb", "filename": "files/20160615_R44518_6a06110a98f9dde3bf4536daf4c3083986fcfadb.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4326, "name": "Benefits and Services for Low-Income Households" } ] } ], "topics": [ "American Law", "Domestic Social Policy" ] }