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DCF budget briefing: TANF, SNAP, child care, LEAP, rehab services and child support contracting
Summary
Secretary Laura Howard summarized DCF’s major benefit programs, staffing and funding mix. She described TANF block-grant limits, SNAP caseloads, the LEAP energy program, child-care subsidies and vocational rehabilitation outcomes, and answered committee questions about contracting and IT modernization.
At the Committee on Social Services Budget hearing, Department for Children and Families Secretary Laura Howard presented an overview of DCF’s economic and employment services, child-support program, vocational rehabilitation and overall budget context.
Howard said DCF administers federal direct-benefit programs including TANF cash assistance, SNAP (food assistance), child-care subsidy and child support. She told legislators Kansas receives about $104 million annually in TANF block-grant funds and that Kansas spends a relatively small share of TANF on cash assistance—about $10 million—serving roughly 7,000 Kansans because of state eligibility rules enacted in recent years.
On food assistance, Howard…
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