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TANF was created in the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Act of 1996 (P.L. 104-193). This report responds to some frequently asked questions about TANF; it does not describe TANF rules (see, instead, CRS Report RL32748, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements, by Gene Falk).\nTANF Funding and Expenditures. TANF provides fixed funding for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the territories, and American Indian tribes. The basic block grant totals $16.5 billion per year. States are also required in total to contribute, from their own funds, at least $10.3 billion annually under a maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. \nThough TANF is best known for funding assistance payments for needy families with children, the block grant and MOE funds are used for a wide variety of benefits and activities. 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Basic assistance is often\u2014but not exclusively\u2014paid as cash. In addition to funding basic assistance, TANF also contributes funds for child care and services for children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused and neglected. Some states also count expenditures in prekindergarten programs toward the MOE requirement.\nThe TANF Assistance Caseload. A total of 1.2 million families, composed of 3.1 million recipients, received TANF- or MOE-funded assistance in September 2018. The bulk of the \u201crecipients\u201d were children\u20142.3 million in that month. The assistance caseload is heterogeneous. The type of family once thought of as the \u201ctypical\u201d assistance family\u2014one with an unemployed adult recipient\u2014accounted for 32% of all families on the rolls in FY2016. Additionally, 31% of cash assistance families had an employed adult, while 38% of all TANF families were \u201cchild-only\u201d and had no adult recipient. 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TANF was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193). This report responds to some frequently asked questions about TANF; it does not describe TANF rules (see, instead, CRS Report RL32748, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements, by Gene Falk).\nTANF Funding and Expenditures. TANF provides fixed funding for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the territories, and American Indian tribes. The basic block grant totals $16.5 billion per year. States are also required in total to contribute, from their own funds, at least $10.3 billion annually under a maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. \nThough TANF is best known for funding cash assistance payments for needy families with children, the block grant and MOE funds are used for a wide variety of benefits and activities. In FY2016, expenditures on basic assistance totaled $7.4 billion\u201424% of total federal TANF and MOE dollars. Basic assistance is often\u2014but not exclusively\u2014paid as cash. In addition to funding basic assistance, TANF also contributes funds for child care and services for children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused and neglected. Some states also count expenditures in prekindergarten programs toward the MOE requirement.\nThe TANF Assistance Caseload. A total of 1.4 million families, composed of 3.4 million recipients, received TANF- or MOE-funded assistance in September 2017. The bulk of the \u201crecipients\u201d were children\u20142.5 million in that month. The assistance caseload is heterogeneous. The type of family historically thought of as the \u201ctypical\u201d assistance family\u2014one with an unemployed adult recipient\u2014accounted for 32% of all families on the rolls in FY2016. Additionally, 31% of cash assistance families had an employed adult, while 38% of all TANF families were \u201cchild-only\u201d and had no adult recipient. 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TANF was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193). This report responds to some frequently asked questions about TANF; it does not describe TANF rules (see, instead, CRS Report RL32748, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements, by Gene Falk).\nTANF Funding and Expenditures. TANF provides fixed funding for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, the territories, and American Indian tribes. The basic block grant totals $16.5 billion per year. States are also required in total to contribute, from their own funds, at least $10.3 billion annually under a maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. \nThough TANF is best known for funding cash assistance payments for needy families with children, the block grant and MOE funds are used for a wide variety of benefits and activities. In FY2015, expenditures on basic assistance totaled $7.9 billion\u201425% of total federal TANF and MOE dollars. Basic assistance is often\u2014but not exclusively\u2014paid as cash. TANF also contributes funds for child care and services for children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused and neglected. Some states also count expenditures in pre-kindergarten programs toward the MOE requirement.\nThe TANF Assistance Caseload. A total of 1.4 million families, composed of 3.5 million recipients, received TANF- or MOE-funded cash in March 2017. The bulk of the \u201crecipients\u201d were children\u20142.6 million in that month. The assistance caseload is heterogeneous. The type of family historically thought of as the \u201ctypical\u201d assistance family\u2014one with an unemployed adult recipient\u2014accounted for 35% of all families on the rolls in FY2015. Additionally, 29% of cash assistance families had an employed adult, while 36% of all TANF families were \u201cchild-only\u201d and had no adult recipient. 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TANF was created in the 1996 welfare reform law (P.L. 104-193). This report responds to some frequently asked questions about TANF; it does not describe TANF rules (see, instead, CRS Report RL32748, The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant: A Primer on TANF Financing and Federal Requirements, by Gene Falk).\nTANF Funding and Expenditures. TANF provides fixed funding to states, the bulk of which is provided in a $16.5 billion-per-year basic federal block grant. States are also required in total to contribute, from their own funds, at least $10.4 billion under a maintenance-of-effort (MOE) requirement. \nThough TANF is best known for funding cash assistance payments for needy families with children, the block grant and MOE funds are used for a wide variety of benefits and activities. In FY2015, expenditures on basic assistance (cash assistance) totaled $7.8 billion\u201425% of total federal TANF and MOE dollars. TANF also contributes funds for child care and services for children who have been, or are at risk of being, abused and neglected. Some states also count expenditures in pre-kindergarten programs toward the MOE requirement.\nCash Assistance Caseload. A total of 1.5 million families, composed of 3.7 million recipients, received TANF- or MOE-funded cash in June 2016. The bulk of the \u201crecipients\u201d were children\u20142.7 million in that month. The cash assistance caseload is heterogeneous. The type of family historically thought of as the \u201ctypical\u201d cash assistance family\u2014one with an unemployed adult recipient\u2014accounted for 35% of all families on the rolls in FY2015. Additionally, 29% of cash assistance families had an employed adult, while 36% of all TANF families were \u201cchild-only\u201d and had no adult recipient. 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