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Welfare Reform: An Issue Overview (CRS Report for Congress)

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Release Date Revised Dec. 17, 2004
Report Number IB93034
Authors Vee Burke, Education and Public Welfare Division
Source Agency Congressional Research Service
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Summary:

The 109th Congress must decide on what terms to continue TANF and related programs of mandatory child care, state grants for abstinence education, and transitional Medicaid beyond March 31, 2005. These programs have operated under eight temporary extensions, at FY2002 funding levels, since the expiration of the original five-year appropriation at the end of FY2002. On October 12, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced award of $200 million in bonuses to 37 states and the District of Columbia for TANF high performance in FY2003. On September 30 HHS awarded bonuses to four of the five states that reduced non-marital birth rates between 1999-2000 and 2001-2002. On September 8, the Agriculture Department (USDA) announced state bonuses for high performance in the food stamp program. On August 23, the HHS said that the official TANF caseload decreased by 36,501 families (1.8%) during 2003. The official count omits a rising part of the overall caseload families in separate state-funded programs.