TANF Emergency Fund

Please be advised that the combination of approved and pending applications for the TANF Emergency Fund now exceeds $5 billion. As a result, OFA has implemented the enhanced procedures for processing Emergency Fund applications. As the PI explains, OFA has established a queue to award remaining emergency funds, with a queue date established for jurisdictions with outstanding applications that were submitted before the tipper (i.e., the application that resulted in our reaching the $5 billion point) came in, and queue dates for those that have come in after the tipper was received. An application’s queue date determines its position in the queue for receiving remaining TANF emergency funds, including de-obligated funds that become available if an award is adjusted downward based on updated data.