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TANF family assistance obligations in Wisconsin

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (CFDA 93.558) shows $1,439,103,361.39 in USAspending.gov obligations with Wisconsin place of performance on 44 awards. 44 instruments against $1.44 billion produce a mean of about $32.71 million per award. This page joins HHS catalog 93.558 to the WI geography tag. It is not a caseload, family, or county office census and not cash already paid.

Key figures

  • CFDA 93.558 shows $1,439,103,361.39 in Wisconsin obligations on 44 awards.
  • The mean is about $32.71 million per award.
  • The catalog is Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, not SNAP or CCDBG.
  • Wisconsin is a place-of-performance tag, not a caseload, family, or county office census.
  • Figures are obligations, not outlays.

Wisconsin family assistance under CFDA 93.558

CFDA 93.558 is titled TEMPORARY ASSISTANCE FOR NEEDY FAMILIES. Filtered to Wisconsin place of performance, obligations sum to $1,439,103,361.39 on 44 awards. The national Temporary Assistance For Needy Families hub includes every state. Wisconsin's spending hub includes every program. This tie is the intersection. $1,439,103,361.39 is an obligation aggregate from USAspending.gov, not an outlay and not a count of caseloads, families, or county offices in Milwaukee, Madison, or Green Bay.

TANF can post as a modest file of state and related assistance awards rather than one row per family. The join does not name recipients, split the lakeshore and the north woods, or count caseloads, families, or county offices. Packet facts stop at $1,439,103,361.39, 44 awards, WI, and 93.558. Correlation is not causation.

93.558 is not SNAP or CCDBG in Wisconsin

SNAP state administrative matching (and other nutrition catalogs) and child-care block grants sit on other Catalog numbers. Mixing those dollars into $1,439,103,361.39 would invent a broader total than this 93.558 × WI cell contains. Facts available: Wisconsin, CFDA 93.558, $1,439,103,361.39, 44 awards. Recipient names, subawards, and caseload, family, or county office counts are not in the facts.

The catalog title names Temporary Assistance For Needy Families, not a ranking of Wisconsin outcomes. Dividing $1,439,103,361.39 by 44 yields about $32.71 million per award—a TANF block-grant instrument, not a typical monthly cash benefit. Unique recipients are unpublished. 44 is not a count of caseloads, families, or county offices.

Wisconsin geography on the TANF Family Assistance tag

WI is the place-of-performance code. Awards billed to Milwaukee, Madison, or Green Bay can share the tag. Awards coded to Illinois, Minnesota, Michigan, or Iowa stay outside $1,439,103,361.39 even when a metro, watershed, or service area approaches the border. Milwaukee County and northern counties share one WI code. The code does not convert $1.44 billion into a caseload map.

Wisconsin federal spending is the all-program parent. 93.558 is one row on Wisconsin programs. $1.44 billion is not the state's complete federal footprint. Open Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Wisconsin for the filtered table, CFDA 93.558 for 93.558 without a Wisconsin filter, and All spending ties for other pairs. Do not add those parents into $1,439,103,361.39.

Reading 44 awards under $1.44 billion

$1,439,103,361.39 ÷ 44 is about $32.71 million per award. That average is a TANF block-grant instrument, not a typical monthly cash benefit. It is not a median. Net obligations can include downward modifications; the total shown is the aggregate in the facts. Treat 44 as a record count in an aggregate, not as 44 finished TANF awardss.

USAspending obligations can be positive new awards or net of downward modifications; $1,439,103,361.39 is the net total supplied in the facts. Without a transaction register on this page, you cannot see how many of the 44 rows are continuations, renewals, or corrections. Later ingests can restate $1,439,103,361.39 without changing the join key of 93.558 and WI.

What the TANF Family Assistance–Wisconsin pair does not prove

A large 93.558 total tagged to Wisconsin does not measure poverty rates, and it does not equal families served. FEC donations do not fund this USAspending cell. Correlation is not causation. The headline remains $1,439,103,361.39 on 44 awards for Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Wisconsin.

Keep both sides of the join: Temporary Assistance For Needy Families and Wisconsin, obligations only. Do not annualize $1,439,103,361.39 without a year field—this packet publishes none. Do not treat 44 as a caseload, family, or county office census. Quote USAspending.gov and the overlay path rather than a program story.

Using the TANF Family Assistance–Wisconsin overlay

The overlay target is the Wisconsin × CFDA 93.558 table. Open Temporary Assistance For Needy Families in Wisconsin when you want the same $1,439,103,361.39 / 44-awards cell in the site's data chrome. CFDA 93.558 drops the Wisconsin filter. Wisconsin federal spending drops the CFDA filter. Wisconsin programs lists other catalogs beside Temporary Assistance For Needy Families. All spending ties is the directory of other pairs.

This page exists because two tables meet: a CFDA program and a place-of-performance state. It does not exist to argue that Wisconsin won or lost federal money, that donations paid for the awards, or that obligations equal cash. The pair is 93.558 plus WI. Obligations of $1,439,103,361.39 are not outlays. Cite Temporary Assistance For Needy Families together with Wisconsin whenever you reuse $1,439,103,361.39. 44 remains an award-record count on USAspending.gov, not a person, facility, or project census.

Questions

How much TANF funding is obligated in Wisconsin?
USAspending.gov shows $1,439,103,361.39 in CFDA 93.558 obligations coded to Wisconsin across 44 awards. The join uses the program number and Wisconsin place of performance. The total is obligations, not outlays. Keep Temporary Assistance For Needy Families and Wisconsin together when citing $1,439,103,361.39.
Is TANF the same as SNAP in Wisconsin?
No. This cell is CFDA 93.558 only. SNAP state administrative matching (and other nutrition catalogs) and child-care block grants are other catalogs. Mixing those numbers would invent a total larger than $1,439,103,361.39. 44 is a record count, not a caseload, family, or county office census.
Do 44 awards mean 44 families?
44 is a USAspending award-record count, not a caseload, family, or county office census. The implied mean is about $32.71 million per award. Unique recipients are unpublished. Obligations of $1,439,103,361.39 are not outlays. Keep Temporary Assistance For Needy Families and Wisconsin together when citing $1,439,103,361.39. The overlay remains the live 93.558 × WI table on USAspending.gov.
Do these obligations equal cash aid issued?
No. $1,439,103,361.39 is an obligation sum. Outlays are a different USAspending series. This packet has no caseload, family, or county office count. Keep the obligation label when citing the pair. Original filings remain on USAspending.gov for this 93.558 × WI pair.

USAspending.gov CFDA program aggregates by place of performance state. Obligations are not outlays.