Temporary Assistance for Needy Families obligations in Washington

Block-grant records meet Washington place of performance

This tie keeps USAspending assistance where CFDA 93.558 meets Washington place of performance. The dollar book is $1,956,810,505.33. The award count is 38. TANF federal funds typically flow as a block grant to the state, with additional awards possible for tribal TANF, contingency, or related assistance that still carries 93.558. Thirty-eight records do not equal 38 county welfare offices.

The join does not prove that Washington’s unemployment rate, child-poverty share, or benefit-level policy caused $1,956,810,505.33. Those are other series. This packet does not split cash assistance from work supports or child-care transfers inside TANF. Correlation is not causation.

A reader who treats the cell as Washington’s full HHS obligation book has left the CFDA-by-state definition. The 38 figure is a record count, including modifications in the extract, not a caseload.

Thirty-eight awards and a blended mean

Thirty-eight awards under $1,956,810,505.33 imply a mean near $51,495,013 per award. A few large state-level actions can dominate that average while smaller tribal or supplemental awards sit below it. The packet has no median and no share on the largest award.

Compared with single-award coronavirus-relief cells, 38 rows is a thicker TANF tape. Volume and dollars remain different columns. Cite both. USAspending.gov is the source; SpendingVault does not recast the mean as a typical monthly benefit.

Washington’s 93.558 cell versus other HHS lines

Washington’s state hub stacks every CFDA with performance coded to the state. TANF is one HHS line; Head Start and Medicaid-adjacent catalog numbers are separate cells. $1,956,810,505.33 is not Washington’s all-program total. The nationwide CFDA 93.558 page includes every state, so it is not this cell.

Place-of-performance on a state TANF grant usually sits on Washington even when county offices administer cases. This packet does not reallocate dollars to counties. Read the overlay as a coding view of 38 awards.

Obligations versus benefit payments

The $1,956,810,505.33 figure is an obligation sum. State drawdowns and benefit issuances can trail the federal obligation. SpendingVault does not publish a 93.558-in-Washington outlay total in this packet. Mixing caseload or work-participation statistics with this award file leaves the USAspending series.

Cite the join as CFDA 93.558 × Washington, $1,956,810,505.33, 38 awards, obligations only.

Where the table lives

The Washington × Temporary Assistance for Needy Families overlay is the table view. Recipient slices on that hub still sum toward $1,956,810,505.33 on 38 awards. The Washington spending page and the CFDA 93.558 program page are the parents. The Washington programs index and the ties index list other pairs.

None of those links convert the cell into caseloads or into outlays this packet omits.

What Washington TANF is not

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in Washington is not a caseload ranking of counties and not a count of families receiving monthly cash. The $1,956,810,505.33 figure is the CFDA 93.558 × Washington cell. Thirty-eight awards can include the state block grant plus tribal or supplemental 93.558 actions; this packet does not split them. TANF also funds work supports that never appear as a separate caseload column here.

Head Start and IHS compact funds in Washington sit on other HHS catalog numbers. Do not add those cells to TANF and call the sum “human services.” Cite 93.558 and Washington together, keep the obligation label, and keep the 38-award count. Later bulk files can revise both dollars and the record count.

Washington’s TANF cell also does not include work-participation rates, time-limit tables, or county caseload files. Those series live with HHS and the state. SpendingVault cites USAspending.gov obligations only: CFDA 93.558 × Washington, $1,956,810,505.33, 38 awards. If a later extract revises the 38-row tape, the implied mean near $51,495,013 moves with it. Quote the packet facts and the overlay path rather than a family-count story.

Questions

How much TANF spending is in Washington?

USAspending.gov shows $1,956,810,505.33 in CFDA 93.558 obligations coded to Washington across 38 awards. The join uses the program number and Washington place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays.

What does 38 TANF awards include?

The extract counts 38 award records tagged to CFDA 93.558 and Washington. State block-grant actions and other 93.558 assistance can share the tape. The implied mean is about $51,495,013 per award from the two packet facts.

Is $1.96 billion Washington’s full federal spending?

No. $1,956,810,505.33 is only the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families cell. Other CFDA programs with Washington place of performance sit on the statewide hub. Nationwide 93.558 is not limited to Washington.

Do these obligations equal cash paid to families?

No. $1,956,810,505.33 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. Benefit issuances can lag the federal obligation, and TANF covers more than monthly cash.