,Administration's TANF Proposal Would Not Free Up $2 Billion for Child Care

Administration's TANF Proposal Would Not Free Up $2 Billion for Child Care


 

Publication Date: April 2005

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Hedieh Rahmanou; Mark Greenberg

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Report

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In recent weeks, Administration representatives have suggested that enacting the Administration's Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) reauthorization proposal would free up $2 billion for states to use for child care.

This paper explains how letting states use unobligated funds for any allowable TANF expenditure would provide administrative simplification, but would not result in any new funds becoming available for child care.