Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in Pennsylvania

Three Pennsylvania instruments on CFDA 93.558

CFDA 93.558 is titled TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. Crossed with Pennsylvania place of performance, obligations sum to $1,792,812,392 on 3 awards. The national 93.558 hub includes other states. Pennsylvania’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $1,792,812,392 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of TANF cases in Pennsylvania.

Three awards is a thin block-grant pass-through with three large instruments. The join does not name recipients. Packet facts are $1,792,812,392, 3 awards, PA, and 93.558. Correlation is not causation. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Keep Temporary Assistance for Needy Families and Pennsylvania together when reading $1,792,812,392.

Readers should keep CFDA 93.558 and Pennsylvania in the same sentence as $1,792,812,392. The live table is Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Pennsylvania. Parent hubs CFDA 93.558, Pennsylvania federal spending, and Pennsylvania programs are larger than this cell. All spending ties lists other spending ties. Do not add those parents into $1,792,812,392.

TANF, not CHIP or railroad social insurance

CHIP (CFDA 93.767) and CCDF lines are other HHS catalogs. Mixing TANF with CHIP in Pennsylvania invents a combined family-assistance book this cell does not contain. Mixing those series into $1,792,812,392 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Pennsylvania, CFDA 93.558, $1,792,812,392, 3 awards. Caseload counts, recipient names, and work-participation rates are unpublished.

The catalog title names Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, not a ranking of Pennsylvania counties by poverty. Dividing $1,792,812,392 by 3 yields about $597.60 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is not a case, family, or county census.

Questions

How much Temporary Assistance for Needy Families is obligated in Pennsylvania?

USAspending records $1,792,812,392 in CFDA 93.558 obligations with Pennsylvania place of performance on 3 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Temporary Assistance For Needy Families and Pennsylvania together when citing $1,792,812,392. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Do 3 awards mean 3 Pennsylvania TANF agencies?

3 is a USAspending award-record count, not a case, family, or county census. The implied mean is about $597.60 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 3 is a record count, not a person or facility census. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.

Is this Pennsylvania's total federal family-assistance spending?

No. This join is CFDA 93.558 only. CHIP (93.767) and railroad social insurance (57.001) are other Pennsylvania program pages. Nationwide 93.558 is not limited to Pennsylvania. Obligations of $1,792,812,392 are not outlays. The overlay is the live Temporary Assistance for Needy Families–Pennsylvania table.

Have these TANF dollars already been paid to families?

No. $1,792,812,392 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Drawdowns can lag the federal obligation. This packet has no outlay total. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.558 × PA pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov.