Notice2025-15471
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Caseload Reduction Documentation Process
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Published
August 14, 2025
Issuing agencies
Health and Human Services DepartmentChildren and Families Administration
Abstract
The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) is requesting a 3-year extension of the form ACF-202: Caseload Reduction Report (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0338, expiration October 31, 2026). There are substantive changes requested to the instructions and form.
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[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 155 (Thursday, August 14, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 39193-39194]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2025-15471]
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Administration for Children and Families
[OMB #: 0970-0338]
Proposed Information Collection Activity; Caseload Reduction
Documentation Process
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
requesting a 3-year extension of the form ACF-202: Caseload Reduction
Report (Office of Management and Budget (OMB) #0970-0338, expiration
October 31, 2026). There are substantive changes requested to the
instructions and form.
DATES: Comments due October 14, 2025. In compliance with the
requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, ACF is soliciting
public comment on the specific aspects of the information collection
described above.
ADDRESSES: You can obtain copies of the proposed collection of
information and submit comments by emailing <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c2abaca4ada1adaeaea7a1b6abadac82a3a1a4ecaaaab1eca5adb4"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="472e29212824282b2b2224332e282907262421692f2f3469202831">[email protected]</span></a>.
Identify all requests by the title of the information collection.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Description: Section 407(b)(3) of the Social Security Act requires
ACF to reduce a state's required work participation rate for a fiscal
year (FY) by the state's caseload reduction credit for that FY. 42
U.S.C. 607(b)(3). The caseload reduction credit gives a state credit
for reducing its caseload between a base year and a comparison year. 42
U.S.C. 607(b)(3)(A). States submit data for the calculation of their
caseload reduction credit by completing form ACF-202. Section 301 of
the Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2023 (FRA) recalibrates the caseload
reduction credit by amending Section 407(b)(3) of the Social Security
Act (42 U.S.C. 607(b)(3)) and changing the base-year caseload from FY
2005 to FY 2015. FRA, Public Law 118-15, Sec. 301 (2023), 137 Stat.
34. ACF proposes to revise the Caseload Reduction Documentation Process
as required by the FRA by striking ``2005'' and inserting ``2015.''
FRA, Public Law 118-15, Sec. 301 (2023), 137 Stat. 34. There are
additional minor changes to the instructions and form to update the
reporting due date for FY 2026, update submission and general
instructions, and change ''State'' to lowercase, where applicable.
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Respondents: State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
agencies.
Annual Burden Estimates
The following table includes all information collections currently
approved under this OMB number. This revision request only proposes
changes to the content of the first row: Caseload Reduction Credit
Documentation Process, Form ACF-202 Sec. Sec. 261.41 & 261.44. The
revisions do not change currently approved burden estimates.
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Total number Average burden
Instrument Total number of responses hours per Annual burden
of respondents per respondent response hours
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Caseload Reduction Credit Documentation Process, 54 1 120 6,480
ACF-202 Sec. Sec. 261.41 & 261.44...........
Reasonable Cause/Corrective Compliance 54 2 240 25,920
Documentation Process Sec. Sec. 262.4,
262.6, & 262.7; Sec. 261.51..................
TANF Data Report Part 265....................... 54 4 2,100 453,600
Separate State Program--Maintenance of Effort 29 4 714 82,824
Data Report--Part 265..........................
TANF Sampling and Statistical Methods Manual 30 4 48 5,760
Sec. 265.5...................................
Preparation and Submission of Data Verification 54 1 640 34,560
Procedures Sec. Sec. 261.60-261.63..........
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Estimated Total Annual Burden Hours......... .............. .............. .............. 609,144
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Comments: The Department specifically requests comments on (a)
whether the proposed collection of information is necessary for the
proper performance of the functions of the agency, including whether
the information shall have practical utility; (b) the accuracy of the
agency's estimate of the burden of the proposed collection of
information; (c) the quality, utility, and clarity of the information
to be collected; and (d) ways to minimize the burden of the collection
of information on respondents, including through the use of automated
collection techniques or other forms of information technology.
Consideration will be given to comments and suggestions submitted
within 60 days of this publication.
Authority: 42 U.S.C. 607(b)(3); FRA Pub. L. 118-5, 301, 137
Stat. 34.
Mary C. Jones,
ACF/OPRE Certifying Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-15471 Filed 8-13-25; 8:45 am]
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