This factsheet overviews the Executive Order by the Trump-Vance administration to create the Task Force to Eliminate Fraud, which will advise the President and coordinate government-wide efforts to combat widespread fraud, waste, and abuse in Federal benefit programs.

This Executive Order by the Trump-Vance administration announces that they will use all available resources and authorities to fight fraud, close loopholes, enforce eligibility rules, and protect benefits for eligible Americans, while ensuring States administering Federal benefits programs do the same.

TANF agencies are doing important work — but navigating program integrity can be complex, and opportunities to learn from peers are hard to come by. That is why the Office of Family Assistance is launching TANF Program Integrity Office Hours: a series of topical peer learning sessions where state agencies can share what's working, explore real challenges, and walk away with practical strategies they can use.

Although the live information session has concluded, you can still view the recording and register at any time between now and the final office hours in August 2026. Below are the titles of the four upcoming sessions; dates will be added as they are confirmed.

1. Leveraging Cross-Agency Data to Strengthen Program Integrity – May 7, 2026
2. Structuring Provider Contracts for Accountability and Reporting – June 18, 2026
3. Building State Capacity for TANF Spending Oversight – July 16, 2026 at 2:00 p.m. ET
4. Using Data to Inform TANF Program Decisions – August 2026 – Exact date/time to be determined

If you are interested in learning more, submit your email on the PI office hours webpage and receive invitations to the upcoming office hours. 

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services hosted a webinar on March 18, 2026 to provide an overview of common immigration documents used in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) process.

The U.S. Citizen and Immigration Services hosted a webinar on March 11, 2026 to provide an overview on Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE). In the webinar, they explained how SAVE works, explain how to register, and offer resources and support.

The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Contingency Fund was created to provide temporary supplemental funding to states during economic downturns. This issue brief examines how the Fund’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) caseload benchmark and maintenance-of-effort requirement result in routine eligibility, with most states qualifying regardless of current economic distress and funding concentrated among a small number of states.

The Office of Family Assistance (OFA) has posted the fiscal year (FY) 2024 Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) financial data tables, along with national and state pie charts.

• In FY 2024, combined federal TANF and state maintenance-of-effort (MOE) expenditures and transfers totaled $37.5 billion.
• 33 states used less than half of their TANF and MOE funds on the combination of basic assistance; work, education, and training activities; and childcare.
• By the end of FY 2024, states had a total of $8 billion in federal TANF unobligated balances. With the addition of federal unliquidated obligations, the amount of unspent federal TANF funds nationwide totaled $9.7 billion.

TANF agencies can review these resources for more information on how TANF and MOE funds were used in FY 2024.

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has launched a new public dashboard that delivers transparent, standardized data on safety and permanency outcomes for children in foster care. The dashboard provides a centralized view of state-level child welfare performance, allowing users to explore key measures, examine trends over time, and compare data across states using information reported to ACF. 

This new tool supports ACF’s broader commitment to transparency, data quality, and performance monitoring. While the dashboard does not include TANF data or introduce new program requirements, it offers valuable context on the service landscape in which multiple ACF-administered programs operate and may inform cross-program coordination and technical assistance discussions.

This guide helps TANF leaders and staff understand the full spectrum of potential fraud risks relevant to programs funded with TANF funds. TANF leaders and staff can use it to:

• Build collective fraud risk knowledge across your agency;
• Understand whether risks are person-based, system-based, or hybrid;
• Apply the WHO-HOW-WHAT framework to assess fraud scenarios; or
• Review fraud prevention strategies that can help mitigate these risks. 

This framework helps TANF agency leaders understand and implement separation of duties—a critical fraud prevention control required by federal regulations. TANF agency leaders can use it to: 

• Understand why separation of duties matters for program integrity;
• Review the national context and real financial impact of fraud;
• See how to structure your organization with proper separation;
• Identify the four critical functions that must never be combined; or
• Learn key control points and adaptations for small agencies.