Thursday, September 28, 2006

 

HHS Releases State Level TANF Spending Data

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services just released national data on combined federal funds spent in federal fiscal year 2005 (October 1, 2004 - September 30, 2005), and while this is an old story for Ohio (we've previously written about Ohio's unspent TANF funds) it's the first time we have a chance to compare ourselves to other states. As we expected, Ohio had the highest amount of unobligated TANF dollars in the country, the closest state to us (New York) had only has as much as did in the unobligated category and we accounted for roughly 20% of the total amount of unobligated dollars in the country. There is a wealth of other data on the site that allows you to do a number of other comparisons.

Comments:
Every dime we can put into utility assistance is the fuctional equivalent of a cash payment to a family. Through HEAP, our members spent every dime of the $75 million transferred from TANF last year. We're prepared to spend the $45 million currently allocated and more during the 2006-07 winter heating season.
 
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