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1 (November 29, 2011)

handle is hein.crs/crsuomaaaad0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Congressional SResearch Service MEMORANDUM November 29, 2011 To: The Honorable Gwen Moore Attention: Eyang Garrison From: Gene Falk, Specialist in Social Policy, 7-7344 Subject: Estimated TANF Block Grant Under the RISE Proposal This memorandum responds to your request for estimates of the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant adjusted for child population growth and inflation as proposed in the draft Rewriting to Improve and Secure an Exit Out of Poverty Act or RISE Out of Poverty Act. It provides state-by-state estimates of what the TANF block grant would be in FY2012 under the RISE proposal and compares it to the block grant under current policies. In summary, the RISE proposal would increase the FY2012 TANF block grant to $25.3 billion per year, a $9 billion (53%) increase from the current policy levels. The majority of this increase stems from adjusting each state's block grant for inflation from 1996 to 2011. That adjustment would increase each state's block grant by 43.1%. States that experienced increases in their child populations would receive larger increases. The RISE Basic TANF Block Grant Under RISE, the annual TANF basic block grant for each state would be increased for the growth in its child population as well as inflation since 1996. It would also add TANF supplemental grants, for the 17 states that received them, to the adjusted basic block grant. Under the proposal, each state's FY2012 TANF block grant would be computed as the sum of: 1. The FY2010 state family assistance grant multiplied by a child population growth factor and by an inflation factor'; and 2. The FY2010 supplemental grant received by the state. For subsequent years, the computation would be repeated. The basic block grant would be adjusted for further increases in child population and inflation and the FY20 10 supplemental grant would be added to the adjusted basic block grant. 1 The child population growth factor would be the greater of: (a) the ratio of the population under the age of 18 for July 1, 2010 to the population under the age of 18 on July 1, 1996 (as estimated by the U.S. Census Bureau); and (b) one. The inflation factor would be the ratio of the average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers (CPI-U) for the twelve month period ending in June 2011 compared with the average CPI-U for the 12-month period ending in June 1996. Congressional Research Service 7-5700 WWwUcrs~gov

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