S. Rept. 107-94 - Tanf Supplemental Grants Act of 2001, 2001-11-07

• Date: 07 November 2001
• Type of Document: House Report
• Issuer: Committee on Finance

99–010

Calendar No. 216

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SENATE

1st Session107–94

TANF SUPPLEMENTAL GRANTS ACT OF 2001

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OVEMBER

7, 2001.—Ordered to be printed

Mr. B

AUCUS

, from the Committee on Finance,

submitted the following

R E P O R T

together with

ADDITIONAL VIEWS

[To accompany S. 942]

[Including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office]

The Committee on Finance, having considered legislation (S. 942)

to reauthorize the supplemental grant for population increases in

certain states under the temporary assistance to needy families

program for fiscal year 2002, reports favorably thereon with an

amendment and refers the bill as amended to the full Senate with

a recommendation that the bill do pass.

I. SUMMARY

S. 942 continues, for one year, the supplemental grant portion of

the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program.

The TANF program was created in 1996 to replace the Aid to Fam-

ilies with Dependent Children (AFDC) program. It is a block grant,

replacing the old welfare program with a flexible funding stream.

State allocations of TANF funding are largely based on the

amount of AFDC funds a State received in the years just prior to

1996. AFDC was an entitlement program and States set their own

benefit levels and many of their own eligibility standards. The Fed-

eral Government provided a share of the cost of aiding families in

AFDC. This led to wide variation in the amount of AFDC funds

going to each State.

During consideration of the 1996 welfare law, there was substan-

tial discussion about whether to allocate TANF funds on the basis

of historic AFDC spending or whether to shift to some alternate

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