Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in Texas

The 93.558–Texas join

CFDA 93.558 is titled TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. Crossed with Texas place of performance, obligations sum to $3,032,398,453.04 on 6 awards. The national Temporary Assistance For Needy Families hub includes other states. Texas’s spending hub includes other programs. Only this intersection is reported here. $3,032,398,453.04 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a county office list or a family census.

Six awards is a concentrated block-grant pattern: TANF typically posts as a handful of large assistance instruments to a state. The implied mean of about $505.40 million per award is a state-agency scale, not a typical monthly cash grant. The join does not name recipients, list contractors, or invent donor names. Packet facts stop at $3,032,398,453.04, 6 awards, TX, and 93.558. Correlation is not causation. Six TANF instruments carrying $3,032,398,453.04 is a block-grant pattern: the join does not name local workforce boards or list cash-grant cases.

TANF is not SNAP or SSI in this cell

The catalog title names Temporary Assistance For Needy Families. It is not SNAP, SSI, or child-care block grants (those are different catalogs). Mixing other catalogs into $3,032,398,453.04 would invent a broader total than this cell contains. Facts available: Texas, CFDA 93.558, $3,032,398,453.04, 6 awards. Recipient names, invoices, and caseload counts are not in the facts.

Dividing $3,032,398,453.04 by 6 yields about $505.40 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. 6 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census.

Questions

How much Temporary Assistance For Needy Families funding is obligated in Texas?

USAspending records $3,032,398,453.04 in CFDA 93.558 obligations with Texas place of performance on 6 awards. That is the pair total, not an outlay. Keep Temporary Assistance For Needy Families and Texas together when citing $3,032,398,453.04. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 6 awards mean 6 people or contractors?

No. 6 is a USAspending award-record count, not a person, school, clinic, or contractor census. The implied mean is about $505.40 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $3,032,398,453.04 are not outlays. Obligations are not outlays, and FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell.

Does 6 awards mean 6 Texas families received TANF?

No. $3,032,398,453.04 is only the 93.558 × Texas cell. Other catalogs appear on separate Texas program pages. Nationwide 93.558 is not limited to Texas. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.558 × TX pair. A high or low award count is not a ranking of Texas as better or worse.

Have these Temporary Assistance For Needy Families dollars already been paid?

The figure is an obligation aggregate, not an outlay. USAspending.gov is the source. This join does not name recipients or contractors. FEC donations do not fund this cell. The overlay is the live Temporary Assistance For Needy Families–Texas table. Quote the overlay table and USAspending.gov rather than a policy claim.