Dec 7 -- The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting OMB to approave a 3-year extension of the Annual Report on State Maintenance-of-Effort (MOE) Programs-ACF-204 (Annual MOE Report). There are no changes requested to this information collection. ACF invites comments to OMB by January 6, 2023.
The Annual MOE Report is used to collect descriptive program characteristics information on the programs operated by states and territories in association with their Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) programs. All state and territory expenditures claimed toward states and territories MOE requirements must be appropriate, i.e., meet all applicable MOE requirements. The Annual MOE Report provides the ability to learn about and to monitor the nature of state and territory expenditures used to meet states and territories MOE requirements, and it is an important source of information about the different ways that states and territories are using their resources to help families attain and maintain self-sufficiency. In addition, the report is used to obtain state and territory program characteristics for ACFs annual report to Congress, and the report serves as a useful resource to use in Congressional hearings about how TANF programs are evolving, in assessing state and the territory MOE expenditures, and in assessing the need for legislative changes.
TANF:
https://www.acf.hhs.gov/ofa/programs/temporary-assistance-needy-families-tanf
ACF submission to OMB:
https://www.reginfo.gov/public/do/PRAViewICR?ref_nbr=202212-0970-003 Click on IC List for questionnaire, View Supporting Statement for technical documentation. Submit comments through this site.
FR notice inviting public comment:
https://www.federalregister.gov/d/2022-26542
For AEA members wishing to submit comments, "A Primer on How to Respond to Calls for Comment on Federal Data Collections" is available at
https://www.aeaweb.org/content/file?id=5806
