CLASP Comments on HHS Regulation Disallowing Credit for Excess MOE


 

Publication Date: October 2008

Publisher: Center for Law and Social Policy

Author(s): Elizabeth Lower-Basch

Research Area: Social conditions

Type: Brief

Coverage: United States

Abstract:

In these comments, CLASP urges the Department of Health and Human Services to maintain a provision that gives states an incentive to spend more of their money than the minimum required to avoid penalty. CLASP strongly disagrees with HHSÂ’ claim that reduced cash assistance caseloads mean that there is less of a need for additional spending.