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The Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 eliminates AFDC's open-ended entitlement and creates a block grant for states to provide time-limited cash assistance for needy families, with work requirements for most recipients. The law also makes far-reaching changes to child care, the Child Support Enforcement Program, benefits for legal immigrants, the Food Stamp Program, and SSI for children. Modifications to the child nutrition program and reductions in the Social Services Block Grant (SSBG) are also included.

This Information Memorandum discusses the importance of addressing family homelessness with allowable uses of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) funds for families experiencing and at risk of experiencing homelessness.

This information memorandum specifies data collection activities during the period of transition from AFDC to TANF.

To provide States and other interested parties with information regarding JOBS participation rates for overall AFDC recipients and separately for AFDC- unemployed parents (UP).

To disseminate final Form ACF-108 data for Fiscal Year 1996

The purpose of this program instruction is to provide State agencies with the TANF Data Report (TDR) form and related instructions and the SSP-MOE Data Report (SDR) form and related instructions that are effective for fiscal year 2015 and thereafter.

This memorandum transmits the FY 2013 work participation rates.  All States were required to report work participation information for the months of October 2012 through September 2013.

The purpose of this Program Instruction is to request that states submit data necessary to calculate the work measures previously reported under the High Performance Bonus (HPB) and advise them of the submission timetable for FY 2015 data.  The previous PIs requesting this information and providing the relevant submission timetable are set forth in the reference section above.

This Program Instruction requests that States submit data necessary to calculate the work measures previously reported under the High Performance Bonus (HPB) and advise them of the submission timetable for FY 2012.

The purpose of this Program Instruction is to advise State agencies that the DRA eliminated the funding for the High Performance Bonus (HPB) but also to request that States continue to submit data necessary to calculate the work measures previously reported under HPB.