United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2001-08-10 monographic deposited born digital 164 p. GA 1.13:GAO-01-828 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828 P0b002ee18038101e f:d01828 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828 GAO-01-828 Federal/state relations Reporting requirements State-administered programs Block grants Public assistance programs Funds management Unexpended budget balances Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program Other Written Product A01582 The upcoming reauthorization of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant represents an opportunity to re-examine the fiscal balance between the federal government and the states in providing services to needy families. In the five years since the enactment of federal welfare reform, there has been much discussion of the fiscal implications of these sweeping changes in national welfare policy. A particularly contentious issue has been the extent to which states have replaced, rather than supplemented, their own spending with federal TANF dollars thereby freeing up state funds for other budget priorities. This report reviews the (1) degree to which states have used the flexibility afforded in the federal TANF grant to supplant, rather than supplement, state spending for low-income families, (2) changes that have occurred in states' use of different funding sources (including their TANF funds) on programs that help the poor, (3) effects of state funding choices have had on the amounts of TANF funds they have left unspent at the U.S. Treasury, and (4) measures states are taking to save a portion of the TANF grant or set aside state funds for a rainy day. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828/html/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828/pdf/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828.pdf GAO-01-828 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-GAO-01-828 Other Written Product GAO-01-828; Welfare Reform: Challenges in Maintaining a Federal-State Fiscal Partnership; Federal/state relations Reporting requirements State-administered programs Block grants Public assistance programs Funds management Unexpended budget balances Aid to Families with Dependent Children Program Volume 111 Page 2134 111 Stat. 2134 Public Law 104-193 Public Law 105-89