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Notice2025-21120

Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA); Interpretation of “Federal Public Benefit”

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Published
November 26, 2025

Issuing agencies

Housing and Urban Development Department

Abstract

This notice sets forth the interpretation that the U.S. Department of Housing and Development (HUD) uses for the term "Federal public benefit" as used in Title IV of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), and its exceptions. In doing so, this notice supersedes any prior interpretation in any notice or other document issued by any HUD program or office.

Indexed from Federal Register on November 26, 2025.

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