Links To Apply For TANF in Your State
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Is TANF a Government Grant?
You bet.
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) was established in 1996 to help individuals, families, and children under the care of a grandparent, get back on their feet. Their goals, as stated by the Department of Health and Human Services:
“States receive a block grant to design and operate their programs to accomplish the purposes of TANF. These are:
* assisting needy families so that children can be cared for in their own homes
* reducing the dependency of needy parents by promoting job preparation, work and marriage
* preventing out-of-wedlock pregnancies
* encouraging the formation and maintenance of two-parent families.”
The Numbers:
Number of welfare recipients nationwide for every December since Temporary Assistance for Needy Families took effect:
Year Number of welfare recipients
2007: 3,880,321
2006: 4,074,689
2005: 4,386,206
2004: 4,695,211
2003: 4,843,562
2002: 5,013,728
2001: 5,276,319
2000: 5,527,071
1999: 6,175,831
1998: 7,578,222
1997: 9,326,683
1996: 11,533,710
Source: Dept. of Health and Human Services
As we see, in 2007, the number of cases per month had gone down to just over $3.8 million, which is where it has remained for the better portion of 2008 – we only have figures through September 2008. The number of monthly recipients was at about $3.87 million in September 2008.
This is a full 67% decrease in total welfare recipients since 1996! Not because they turned people away who qualified, but because that’s how few people applied. This would suggest there is room for more famlies to get help for a while in these tough times.
There is a national number you can call for TANF: 1-800-706-8263. You can also contact your local Department of health and Human Services.
I suggest going to the sites, as they list a variety of help US citizens can get. (They even have cash for refugees in most states, as you will see on the sites.)
The info and the applications are available on the sites. They are fully informative. At the very bottom of this article are three really useful tools to help you determine your likelihood to qualify.
In as much as it seems easy to have looked these sites up (!) it was not. Unbelievable how difficult they make some of the sites to navigate. Where were the actual applications for TANF? and not just the paperwork about it. Though the studeis/data are helpful, you need to be able to find a page to see if you qulaify and then another easy page to apply. I will see if I can pull tha ttogether.
Until then, here are the links for your state. This was last updated on June 23, 2009.
Alabama: Family Assistance Program
Alaska: ATAP Public Assistance
Arizona: Dept of Economic Security
Click here for Arizona cash assistance.
Arkansas: General Family Services
Colorado: Colorado Employment First
FOR COLORADO APPLICATION, CLICK HERE.
Delaware: ABC (A Better Chance)
D.C.: TANF
Click here for simpler list to apply for help…
Georgia: Family and Children Services
Hawaii: BENEFIT, EMPLOYMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICES
Idaho: Temporary Assistance for Families in Idaho
Illinois: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
Iowa: Family Investment Program
CLICK ON ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS ON SIDEBAR HERE
Kansas: Services Index
SERVICES INDEX, CLICK ON ADULT, OR FAMILY, SCROLL TO ‘Temporary Assistance for Families.’
Louisiana: Click on TANFEZ form on this page
Visit this link for requirements and more info.
Their site says to call the national number for TANF – 1 – 800 – 706-8263
or contact the local Department of Social Services, Office of Family Support at 1 – 225-342-3950.
Maine: Office of Integrated Services
Maryland: How Can We Help You?
Massachusetts: Cash Assistance
Missouri: Income Maintenance and Self-Sufficiency
Montana: Public Assistance Programs
Nebraska: Financial Assistance
New Hampshire: Family Assistance Program
New Jersey: Work First New Jersey
New Mexico: Income Support Division
New York: Temporary Assistance for Needy Families
North Carolina: Click here. There are several programs
North Dakota: Click here and Scroll down for TANF. Several programs
Ohio:Newly Reauthorized TANF funding! Click here and scroll down.
Oklahoma: Several programs. scroll down for TANF
Oregon: Several programs including TANF. Look around the site for more help.
Pennsylvania: Cash Assistance, Food Stamps and Medical Assistance Benefits
Rhode Island: TANF info page and on left are the links for programs
These guys are tough.. As I was researching this, they kept on kicking me off their site saying “Your time has expired?!?” Anyway Click here for the closest I could get to actual apps, once you qualify through their pre-screening. I would not settle for it. Call or visit your local RI Dept of Heath and Human Services. Click here for welfare data.. see if it’s worth applying.
South Carolina: Family Assistance
Utah: Family Employment Program. Once you get there, click below on Contact Your Employment Center
Washington: TANF
West Virginia: WV Works.. a NUMBER! of programs down the left sidebar | 1-800-642-8589
Wyoming:Several programs to apply for here, including TANF
Click here for free access the 50-State Policy Wizard. It is a website put together by Columbia University to help you check out if you are eligible for the programs. It gives eligibility info and other info on state and federal policies that assist low-income families and children.
Click here for free evaluation on where your income lands you in applying for these programs above. Enter (anonymously) your annual income (in dollars), and the Income Converter will return the percent of the federal poverty level (%FPL), or percent of state median income (%SMI). in any individual state or all states.
Last Cool Tool: Click here for a free calculation of the resources needed for your family for your area. It shows you how much it takes for a family to afford minimum daily necessities.As well this allows you to customize your results by changing basic family expenses in the formula. Pretty cool tool.
DO NOT let yourself get discouraged from these requirements. Often what you count as income isn’t; what you count as ownership isn’t. In one state, one of the TANF workers said that many were not applying who would qualify, because of the daunting requirements list. So…
A–P–P–L—Y. Let them decide.
56 Comments
June 23rd, 2009 at 7:33 pm
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March 3rd, 2010 at 3:09 am
It’s interesting to see the number of welware recipients dropping since 1996 to 2007, did anyone else notice how it dropped 300% since then? I wonder why that is. I bet the numbers look much different now, but for that eleven year gap that’s pretty incredible.
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May 6th, 2010 at 9:08 am
What I found surprising is how much this figure has reduced over the last ten years. Do you think this is a case of massaging statistics or does this reflect the actual help that is received since the mid 1990’s?
June 6th, 2010 at 10:33 am
I’m with Tim on this: the figure has drastically been reduced in the last ten years. How could this have happened? Economics?
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To receive TANF for Families, a family must be below income and resource limits set for the program. HHSC looks at a family’s income and compares it with the amount the family pays for basic needs such as rent, utilities, child care and work-related expenses. Resources such as cash on hand, money in the bank and type of vehicles are also considered.
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