May a jurisdiction use TANF funds to create or preserve jobs in its human services agency?
A3: Yes, but a jurisdiction cannot simply re-categorize program administrative staffing costs as subsidized employment. The Emergency Fund is not intended to cover the existing costs of TANF program administration. Q4: If a State subsidizes a job, can the employer’s costs for supervision and training or the employer’s share of wages count as a third-party contribution for purposes of TANF maintenance-of-effort (MOE) and the Emergency Fund spending requirements? A4: The employer’s costs for supervising and training a subsidized employee can count as a State expenditure for MOE and the Emergency Fund, but not the employer’s unreimbursed wage costs. While the TANF agency’s wage subsidy to an employer is part of the cost of the subsidized employment program, the employer’s share of the wages paid to a subsidized employee is not a subsidy and thus cannot be considered a program expenditure for MOE. To count the value of employer supervision and training as MOE, the expenditures must meet a
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