Notice2025-09098
Proposed Information Collection and Submission for Office of Management and Budget Review; Fiscal Responsibility Act TANF Pilot Program 2025 Information Collection
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Published
May 21, 2025
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Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is proposing to reissue an information collection to request information from interested states for the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) pilot program. This request is proposed under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #: 0970-0531 and is a reissuing of a previously approved information collection to select states for the FRA pilot program.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 97 (Wednesday, May 21, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 21776-21777]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-09098]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0531]
Proposed Information Collection and Submission for Office of
Management and Budget Review; Fiscal Responsibility Act TANF Pilot
Program 2025 Information Collection
AGENCY: Office of Family Assistance, Administration for Children and
Families, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.
ACTION: Request for public comments.
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SUMMARY: The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is
proposing to reissue an information collection to request information
from interested states for the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA)
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) pilot program. This
request is proposed under Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #:
0970-0531 and is a reissuing of a previously approved information
collection to select states for the FRA pilot program.
DATES: Comments due June 20, 2025. OMB will make a decision about the
collection of information after this public comment period ends and
comments have been considered.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#5c35323a333f333030393f283533321c3d3f3a7234342f723b332a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="0960676f666a6665656c6a7d60666749686a6f2761617a276e667f">[email protected]</span></a>.
Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: The FRA authorized a new opportunity for states to
pilot program performance and accountability measures in TANF. Under
the pilot, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) may
select up to five state TANF grantees to negotiate performance
benchmarks for work and family stability outcomes instead of adhering
to the standard TANF Work Participation Rate. The ACF Office of Family
Assistance (OFA) administers federal grant programs that foster family
economic stability and independence, including the TANF program. As
such, OFA is responsible for designing and carrying out the FRA TANF
Pilot Program, including selecting the five states to participate in
the pilot, working with the states to identify performance benchmarks
and associated targets, and monitoring performance of the pilot states
throughout the duration of the pilot.
ACF received approval for a previous information collection (Title:
Fiscal Responsibility Act TANF Pilot Program; OMB #: 0970-0531) on July
17, 2024. Twenty-three states and territories responded to the
information collection from July through September 2024. In November
2024, ACF announced the selection of five states to participate in the
FRA TANF Pilot Program. In March 2025, the Trump Administration
announced a new direction for the FRA TANF Pilot Program, ending pilot
participation for the states selected in November of 2024 and
communicating plans to issue a new request for pilot proposals aligned
with the Administration's focus on promoting work and reducing
dependency and the key measures of success related to those priorities.
This new request to OMB is to collect information from states about
their interest and suitability for participation in the new direction
being taken for the FRA TANF Pilot Program.
OFA also intends to provide programmatic technical assistance (TA)
to the pilot states. ACF's Office of
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Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE) studies ACF programs,
including TANF, and the populations they serve through rigorous
research and evaluation projects. OPRE will be responsible for the
federal evaluation of the FRA TANF Pilots Program and intends to
provide data- and evaluation-related TA to the pilot states.
Respondents: States operating TANF programs and interested in
innovations within those programs focused on promoting work and
reducing dependency. In accordance with title IV-A of the Social
Security Act, states is defined as the 50 States of the United States,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the United
States Virgin Islands, Guam, and American Samoa. See 42 U.S.C. 619(5).
Annual Burden Estimates
The Proposal for TANF Pilot Program Participation is intentionally
succinct and will be considered in combination with existing sources of
administrative data. Therefore, ACF estimates that a state will spend
approximately 10 hours compiling information and responding to the
request. In the first issuing of this information collection in July
2024, ACF received responses from 23 states and territories. The
estimated number of respondents in the table below is based on the
number of responses received in the first round and ACF's expectations
for number of responses in the second round.
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Total number of
Instrument Total number of responses per Average burden Total burden
respondents respondent hours per response hours
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Proposal for TANF Pilot Program 25 1 10 250
Participation.....................
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Authority: 42 U.S.C. 611(e).
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-09098 Filed 5-20-25; 8:45 am]
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