{ "id": "RL32872", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "number": "RL32872", "active": true, "source": "EveryCRSReport.com, University of North Texas Libraries Government Documents Department", "versions": [ { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 585169, "date": "2018-01-23", "retrieved": "2018-09-13T22:47:18.782152", "title": "Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding", "summary": "Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) provide federal funds to states, territories, and tribes for distribution to local agencies to support a wide range of community-based activities to reduce poverty. These include activities to help families and individuals achieve self-sufficiency, find and retain meaningful employment, attain an adequate education, make better use of available income, obtain adequate housing, and achieve greater participation in community affairs. In addition, many local agencies receive federal funds from other sources and may administer other federal programs.\nSmaller related programs\u2014Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Facilities (RCF), and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)\u2014also support antipoverty efforts. CSBG and some of these related activities trace their roots to the War on Poverty, launched more than 50 years ago in 1964. Today, they are administered at the federal level by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).\nInitial FY2018 funding for CSBG is provided by a series of continuing resolutions (CRs). As of the date of this report, the current CR funds most federal programs, including CSBG and related programs, at their FY2017 levels less an across-the-board rescission of 0.6791%, through February 8, 2018. \nIn FY2017, CSBG and related activities were funded at a total level of $742 million through the FY2017 Consolidated Appropriations Act (P.L. 115-31). This was a reduction of nearly $30 million relative to FY2016 appropriations of $770 million, though that total was more than had been appropriated in each year from FY2012-FY2015. While the block grant was funded at the FY2016 level of $715 million, funding for CED was reduced by $10 million (from $30 million to $20 million) and funding for IDAs was eliminated for the first time since the program was created as a demonstration in 1998. Funding for RCF increased slightly to $7.5 million in FY2017, compared to $6.5 million in FY2016. \nPrior to enactment of the FY2018 continuing resolutions, the Administration\u2019s budget proposed to eliminate funding for CSBG, CED, and RCF, and would again have provided no funding for IDAs. Both the Senate and the House appropriations committees reported FY2018 funding bills that rejected the Administration\u2019s proposal. The House Appropriations Committee-reported bill to fund the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education (LHHS, H.R. 3358) would provide $600 million for CSBG, $10 million for CED, $7.5 million for RCF, and no funding for IDAs. The LHHS bill approved by the Senate Appropriations Committee (S. 1771) would provide $700 million for CSBG, and maintain FY2017 funding levels for CED ($20 million) and RCF ($7.5 million). Neither the House nor the Senate committee-approved bills contain funding for IDAs. In addition, on August 16, 2017, the House passed H.R. 3354, a bill that incorporated multiple appropriations bills, as an omnibus appropriations act. However, the CR was enacted before action on H.R. 3354 was complete. Funding for CSBG and related activities in H.R. 3354 are the same as those in H.R. 3358.\nThe Community Services Block Grant Act was last reauthorized in 1998 by P.L. 105-285. The authorization of appropriations for CSBG and most related programs expired in FY2003, but Congress has continued to make annual appropriations each year. Legislation was introduced in the 114th Congress\u2014with bipartisan cosponsorship\u2014to amend and reauthorize the CSBG Act through FY2023 (H.R. 1655). Similar legislation had been introduced in the 113th Congress (H.R. 3854). \nAccording to the most recent survey conducted by the National Association for State Community Services Programs, through a contract with HHS, the nationwide network of more than 1,000 CSBG grantees served 15.6 million people in 6.5 million low-income families in FY2015. 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Smaller related programs\u2014Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Facilities (RCF), and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)\u2014also support anti-poverty efforts. CSBG and some of these related activities trace their roots to the War on Poverty, launched more than 50 years ago in 1964. Today, they are administered at the federal level by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).\nCSBG and related activities are funded in FY2017 pursuant to a continuing resolution (P.L. 114-254) that funds most federal programs at FY2016 levels less a rescission of 0.1901% through April 28, 2017 (or until enactment of full-year appropriations). In FY2016, CSBG and related activities were funded at a total level of $770 million (P.L. 114-113). This was an increase of $41 million from FY2015 and was more than the Administration requested or the House and Senate Appropriations Committees initially recommended. All of the increase was directed toward the block grant, while related activities were maintained at their FY2015 levels. Specifically, FY2016 funding levels were $715 million for CSBG (up from $674 million in FY2015), $30 million for CED, $6.5 million for RCF, and $19 million for IDAs.\nPrior to enactment of the FY2017 continuing resolution, the Obama Administration requested a total of $693 million for CSBG and related activities. This would have returned the FY2017 appropriation for CSBG to the FY2015 level of $674 million, provided no funding for CED or RCF, and provided level funding of $19 million for IDAs. \nBoth the Senate and the House appropriations committees reported FY2017 funding bills that rejected the Administration\u2019s proposal and would have maintained the block grant at its FY2016 level of $715 million (S. 3040 and H.R. 5926). The Senate Appropriations Committee supported the Administration\u2019s proposal to eliminate funding for CED and RCF, but also recommended no funding for IDAs, notwithstanding the Administration\u2019s request for level funding. The House Appropriations Committee would have maintained CED and IDAs at their FY2016 levels, and also would have provided an additional million dollars for RCF.\nAs in previous years, the Administration proposed several reforms to be included in the FY2017 appropriations legislation. These included a requirement that states demonstrate in their state plans how local eligible entities will address community revitalization challenges; a 1% set-aside of CSBG funds for research and evaluation; and authority for HHS to allow states to temporarily suspend funds to a local agency if there is evidence of potential fraud or criminal wrongdoing. The Administration also proposed in its FY2017 budget to allow states to exceed the statutory cap of 5% on administrative funding, if the excess funds are used for modernization of data systems and integration with other social services programs.\nThe Community Services Block Grant Act was last reauthorized in 1998 by P.L. 105-285. The authorization of appropriations for CSBG and most related programs expired in FY2003, but Congress has continued to make annual appropriations each year. Legislation was introduced in the 114th Congress\u2014with bipartisan co-sponsorship\u2014to amend and reauthorize the act through FY2023 (H.R. 1655). Similar legislation was introduced in the 113th Congress (H.R. 3854). \nAccording to the most recent survey conducted by the National Association for State Community Services Programs, the nationwide network of more than 1,000 CSBG grantees served almost 16 million people in nearly 7 million low-income families in FY2014. States reported that the network spent $13.8 billion of federal, state, local, and private resources, including $619 million in federal CSBG funds.", "type": "CRS Report", "typeId": "REPORTS", "active": true, "formats": [ { "format": "HTML", "encoding": "utf-8", "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/RL32872", "sha1": "c6ec4bed38eddedeebd1f6129515878a0ace9525", "filename": "files/20170105_RL32872_c6ec4bed38eddedeebd1f6129515878a0ace9525.html", "images": null }, { "format": "PDF", "encoding": null, "url": "http://www.crs.gov/Reports/pdf/RL32872", "sha1": "de742e99bfc8ae87ce8995c6c10721b21556d112", "filename": "files/20170105_RL32872_de742e99bfc8ae87ce8995c6c10721b21556d112.pdf", "images": null } ], "topics": [ { "source": "IBCList", "id": 4823, "name": "Social Services" } ] }, { "source": "EveryCRSReport.com", "id": 455118, "date": "2016-08-15", "retrieved": "2016-09-09T18:41:17.143523", "title": "Community Services Block Grants (CSBG): Background and Funding", "summary": "Community Services Block Grants (CSBG) provide federal funds to states, territories, and tribes for distribution to local agencies to support a wide range of community-based activities to reduce poverty. Smaller related programs\u2014Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Facilities (RCF), and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)\u2014also support anti-poverty efforts. CSBG and some of these related activities trace their roots to the War on Poverty, launched more than 50 years ago in 1964. Today, they are administered at the federal level by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).\nCSBG and related activities are funded in FY2016 at a total level of $770 million (P.L. 114-113). This was an increase of $41 million from FY2015 and was more than the Administration requested or the House and Senate Appropriations Committees initially recommended. All of the increase was directed toward the block grant, while related activities were maintained at their FY2015 levels. Specifically, FY2016 funding levels are $715 million for CSBG (up from $674 million in FY2015), $30 million for CED, $6.5 million for RCF, and $19 million for IDAs.\nIn its FY2017 budget submitted to Congress in February 2016, the Obama Administration requested a total of $693 million for CSBG and related activities. This would return the FY2017 appropriation for CSBG to the FY2015 level of $674 million, provide no funding for CED or RCF, and provide level funding of $19 million for IDAs. \nBoth the Senate and the House appropriations committees have reported FY2017 funding bills that would reject the Administration\u2019s proposal and maintain the block grant at its FY2016 level of $715 million (S. 3040 and H.R. 5926). The Senate Appropriations Committee supported the Administration\u2019s proposal to eliminate funding for CED and RCF, but also recommended no funding for IDAs, notwithstanding the Administration\u2019s request for level funding. The House Appropriations Committee would maintain CED and IDAs at their FY2016 levels, and would also provide an additional million dollars for RCF.\nAs in previous years, the Administration proposed several reforms to be included in the FY2017 appropriations legislation. These include a requirement that states demonstrate in their state plans how local eligible entities will address community revitalization challenges; a 1% set-aside of CSBG funds for research and evaluation; and authority for HHS to allow states to temporarily suspend funds to a local agency if there is evidence of potential fraud or criminal wrongdoing. The Administration also proposed in its FY2017 budget to allow states to exceed the statutory cap of 5% on administrative funding, if the excess funds are used for modernization of data systems and integration with other social services programs.\nThe Community Services Block Grant Act was last reauthorized in 1998 by P.L. 105-285. The authorization of appropriations for CSBG and most related programs expired in FY2003, but Congress has continued to make annual appropriations each year. Legislation is pending in the 114th Congress\u2014with bipartisan co-sponsorship\u2014to amend and reauthorize the act through FY2023 (H.R. 1655). Similar legislation was introduced in the 113th Congress (H.R. 3854). \nAccording to the most recent survey conducted by the National Association for State Community Services Programs, the nationwide network of more than 1,000 CSBG grantees served almost 16 million people in nearly 7 million low-income families in FY2014. 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Smaller related programs\u2014Community Economic Development (CED), Rural Community Facilities (RCF), and Individual Development Accounts (IDAs)\u2014also support anti-poverty efforts. CSBG and some of these related activities trace their roots to the War on Poverty, launched more than 50 years ago in 1964. Today, they are administered at the federal level by the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).\nThe FY2016 consolidated appropriations act (P.L. 114-113) provides a total of $770 million for CSBG and related activities, which represents an increase of $41 million from FY2015 levels and is more than the Administration requested or the House and Senate Appropriations Committees initially recommended. All of the increase is directed toward the block grant, while related activities are maintained at their FY2015 levels. Specifically, FY2016 funding levels, by program, are $715 million for CSBG (up from $674 million in FY2015), $30 million for Community Economic Development, $6.5 million for Rural Community Facilities, and $19 million for Individual Development Accounts.\nIn its budget submitted to Congress in February 2015, the Obama Administration broke with past practice and requested no reduction in funding for the block grant. This contrasted with the previous four annual budget requests when the Administration unsuccessfully sought to reduce appropriations for the block grant by approximately half. For related activities, the Administration\u2019s FY2016 budget request was similar to its request of previous years: level funding for IDAs, and nothing for CED and RCF. \nDespite Administration efforts to zero out CED and RCF, Congress has historically continued to fund them. However, the Senate Appropriations Committee on June 25, 2015, approved an FY2016 funding bill that supported the Administration\u2019s request to eliminate funding for these activities. The Senate bill (S. 1695) would have provided $674 million for the block grant, nothing for CED and RCF, and $12 million for IDAs. The House Appropriations Committee, in a bill approved on June 24, 2015 (H.R. 3020), would have maintained CSBG and all related activities at their FY2015 funding levels in FY2016.\nThe Administration proposed a new initiative in the FY2016 budget, called the Upward Mobility Project, which would have allowed up to 10 localities, states, or consortia to combine funds from four existing block grants\u2014including CSBG\u2014to test promising approaches to reducing poverty. The initiative also included the Social Services Block Grant within HHS, which would have received additional funding for the project, and the Community Development Block Grant and Home Investment Partnerships Program, both administered by the Department of Housing and Urban Development. The initiative was not included in the FY2016 funding bill.\nThe Community Services Block Grant Act was last reauthorized in 1998 by P.L. 105-285. The authorization of appropriations for CSBG and most related programs expired in FY2003, but Congress has continued to make annual appropriations each year. Legislation is pending in the 114th Congress\u2014with bipartisan co-sponsorship\u2014to amend and reauthorize the act through FY2023 (H.R. 1655). 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