The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has realigned the Office of Community Services (OCS). This Federal Register notice explains that the realignment renames the “Division of State Assistance” as the “Division of Community Assistance…

Child Support and TANF programs work with many of the same clients and others, including noncustodial parents, who face similar and overlapping needs. Such needs may include increasing employment skills; removing barriers to employment; and…

The Welfare Indicators Act of 1994 requires the Department of Health and Human Services to prepare annual reports to Congress on indicators and predictors of welfare dependence. The 2016 report on Welfare Indicators and Risk Factors, from the Office…

This annual release from the Administration for Children and Families (ACF) draws on national data from fiscal year (FY) 2015 and shows that less than half of the $31.3 billion in TANF and maintenance-of-effort (MOE) funds were spent on the…

This post from the ACF Family Room Blog breaks down the FY 2015 TANF and MOE financial data. One notable distinction is that in FY 2015, states…

This fact sheet examines 2015 spending data to understand spending patterns nationally and to examine the wide variations across states in how TANF/MOE funds are used.

Twenty years after the passage of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act (PRWORA) in 1996, the Manhattan Institute has published this report examining poverty trends over the past two decades. The report focuses…

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Family Assistance (OFA), Regions VI and VIII hosted the Bi-Regional TANF Technical Assistance Meeting on June 28-30, 2016 at the Region…