Must a jurisdiction have both an increase in TANF expenditures and an increase in caseload to receive TANF emergency funds?
A11: Not necessarily. Emergency Fund grants are available to a jurisdiction if it has increased expenditures in any one of three categories: basic assistance expenditures; non-recurrent short-term benefits expenditures; or subsidized employment expenditures. Only for the basic assistance expenditures category must a jurisdiction also have an increase in its assistance caseload. Q12: Can a State use its TANF Contingency Fund dollars for expenditures in one of the three Emergency Fund categories to help it qualify for Emergency Fund dollars (e.g., use a TANF Contingency Fund award to create subsidized jobs)? A12: Yes. For each Emergency Fund category, a jurisdiction that qualifies may request 80 percent of the amount by which Federal TANF expenditures (including both TANF contingency funds and TANF emergency funds) and qualified State expenditures (i.e., maintenance-of-effort (MOE)) in the quarter for which it is requesting emergency funds exceed such expenditures in the corresponding ba
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