Appendix - Advance Appropriations

An advance appropriation is one made to become available one year or more beyond the year for which the appropriations act is passed. Advance appropriations in 2021 appropriations acts will become available for programs in 2022 or beyond. Since these appropriations are not available until after 2021, the amounts will not be included in the 2021 totals, but will be reflected in the totals for the year for which they are requested.

The Congressional Budget Act of 1974 (31 U.S.C. 1105(a)(17)) requires inclusion in the budget of "information on estimates of appropriations for the fiscal year following the fiscal year for which the budget is submitted for grants, contracts, and other payments under each program for which there is an authorization of appropriations for that following fiscal year when the appropriations are authorized to be included in an appropriation law for the fiscal year before the fiscal year in which the appropriation is to be available for obligation." In fulfillment of this requirement, the accompanying table lists those accounts that have either received discretionary or mandatory advance appropriations since 2019 or will request, in 2021, advance appropriations for 2022 and beyond and cites the applicable authorizing statute.

For additional information on advance appropriations, please refer to the Budget Process chapter in the Analytical Perspectives volume.

Advance Appropriations by Agency in the 2021 Budget (Budget authority in millions of dollars)


	Pre-cancellation, Pre-Transfer Enacted Levels


Agency/Program	2019	2020	2021	2022 Request

Discretionary One-year Advances:
Department of Education (20 U.S.C. 1223):
Improving Elementary and Secondary Education	.......	.......	.......	12,523
Education for the Disadvantaged	10,841	10,841	10,841	.......
Special Education	9,283	9,283	9,283	9,283
Career, Technical, and Adult Education	791	791	791	791
School Improvement Programs	1,681	1,681	1,681	.......
Department of Housing and Urban Development (42 U.S.C. 1437 et seq.):
Tenant-Based Rental Assistance	4,000	4,000	4,000	4,000
Project-Based Rental Assistance	400	400	400	400
Department of Labor:
Training and Employment Services (29 U.S.C. 2801 et seq.)	1,772	1,772	1,772	1,712
Enacted Cancellation (Public Law 115–245)	–53	.......	.......	.......
Proposed Cancellation of 2021 Enacted Advance	.......	.......	–60	.......
Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 111–81):
Medical Services	49,161	51,411	56,158	58,897
Medical Support and Compliance	7,239	7,239	7,914	8,403
Enacted Cancellations (Public Law 115–244)	–211	.......	.......	.......
Medical Facilities	5,914	6,142	6,433	6,735
Medical Community Care	8,385	10,758	17,131	20,148
Discretionary Two-year Advances:
Corporation for Public Broadcasting (47 U.S.C. 396)1	445	445	445	465
Proposed Cancellation of 2021 and 2022 Enacted Advances	.......	.......	–415	–437

Subtotal, Discretionary Advance Appropriations	99,648	104,763	116,374	122,920
Mandatory:
Department of Health and Human Services:
Grants to States for Medicaid (42 U.S.C. 1396–1)	134,848	137,932	139,903	148,732
Payments to States for Child Support Enforcement and Family Support (42 U.S.C. Ch. 7)	1,400	1,400	1,400	1,400
Payments for Foster Care and Permanency (Public Law 96–272)	2,700	2,800	3,000	3,000
Department of Labor:
Special Benefits for Disabled Coal Miners (30 U.S.C. 921)	15	14	14	14
Department of Veterans Affairs (Public Law 113–235):2
Compensation and Pensions	95,768	109,017	118,247	129,314
Readjustment Benefits	11,832	14,065	12,579	14,941
Veterans Insurance and Indemnities	109	111	129	137
Social Security Administration:
Supplemental Security Income Program (42 U.S.C. 1381)	19,500	19,700	19,900	19,600

Total, Advance Appropriations	365,820	389,802	411,546	440,058

ADVANCE APPROPRIATIONS