The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Program was launched in 1997 to help low-income families in the United States. This program provides grant funds to states and territories. All with the goal of providing families with financial assistance and related support services.
This benefit is available in all 50 states, but the amounts that can be received in each of them have some variability. This is how the main benefits website of the United States government exposes it.
Among the projections for state-administered programs are child care assistance, job readiness, and employment assistance.
Who is eligible for this program?
However, to be eligible for TANF you must be unemployed or underemployed and have low or very low income.
In addition, people who aspire to this benefit must be the parents of a child 18 years of age or younger. Another requirement is to be pregnant or be 18 years of age or younger and be the head of the household.
Meanwhile, the state that provides the maximum monthly TANF cash assistance benefit amount is New Hampshire. In that state, a total of $862.00 USD is awarded for a single parent family with one child.
Then follow the states of Alaska, with $821.00 USD, and California, with $696.00 USD.
For its part, the state that provides the lowest level of TANF benefits is Mississippi, with $146.00 USD. This sum corresponds in the same way to a single-parent family with one child.
Meanwhile, the remaining states with the lowest benefits are Arkansas with $162.00 USD and Louisiana with $188.00 USD.
Additionally, the median amount in all 50 states is a maximum monthly benefit of $399.00 USD for a single parent family with one child. This was known through an official report.
