Adoption Assistance in West Virginia

West Virginia x 93.659 is an adoption-assistance join, not a caseload census

This page pairs CFDA 93.659, ADOPTION ASSISTANCE, with West Virginia place of performance. Adoption Assistance, in program language, helps states provide subsidies for eligible children adopted from foster care under Title IV-E. SpendingVault sums tagged obligations: $398,528,583 on 7 awards. The extract does not list children, families, or subsidy amounts. Treat the pair as a catalog intersection, not a ranking of which state finalizes more adoptions, and not a claim that 7 awards equal 7 families.

Other HHS listings — Foster Care Title IV-E on 93.658, TANF, or Medicaid — sit outside $398,528,583 unless they also carry 93.659. Mixing adoption assistance with foster care would invent a combined child-welfare figure the packet never computed. Correlation between this obligation sum and foster-care entries is not causation. Caseload figures are not in the packet. Place of performance as West Virginia locates the tagged awards; it does not deposit $398,528,583 in the state treasury.

7 awards behind $398.5 million

Mean obligation is about $56,932,654.71 if $398,528,583 were divided evenly across 7 lines. That ratio is not a published subsidy and not a cost per adoption. Formula-style IV-E awards often post as a handful of rows to a state child-welfare agency. Award count is a row count, including possible continuations. It is not a count of children, counties, or adoptive families.

Seven lines are scannable on the overlay. This page will not invent the lead agency name. Open Adoption Assistance in West Virginia for the stored table. Do not convert 7 into a map of West Virginia adoptive families. The $398,528,583 total remains an obligation rollup on tagged awards, not subsidies already issued. Inspect named lines rather than inferring a caseload.

Questions

How much Adoption Assistance funding is obligated in West Virginia?

USAspending.gov shows $398,528,583 in obligations for CFDA 93.659 with West Virginia as place of performance, across 7 awards. The sum is a commitment total on assistance awards, not outlays and not West Virginia’s full child-welfare budget. Other HHS listings are outside this join unless they also carry 93.659.

Do 7 awards mean 7 West Virginia adoptions?

No. Award count is a row count of assistance awards and can include continuations. It is not a child or family census. The packet does not name recipients. See the West Virginia 93.659 overlay for named lines as USAspending stored them.

Does this include Foster Care Title IV-E in West Virginia?

No. This page is CFDA 93.659, Adoption Assistance. Foster Care Title IV-E sits on CFDA 93.658 as a separate join. Those dollars are not inside $398,528,583 unless the award also carries 93.659. The extract has no caseload table.

Is $399 million already paid as West Virginia adoption subsidies?

Not on this metric. Obligations are recorded commitments on assistance awards. Outlays are payments from the Treasury. The $398,528,583 headline is the obligation rollup in SpendingVault’s extract. Claim draws and remaining balances are not published in this packet.