Juvenile Probation Funding
In February 2008, the federal Health and Human Services Agency released updated federal regulations for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Block Grant. As a result of these new provisions, the requirements to meet the TANF Maintenance of Effort (MOE) requirement are more restrictive. To address the loss of available MOE, the May Revision proposes to replace $151.8 million General Fund that currently supports the Juvenile Probation Program with TANF Block Grant Funds, and transfer the General Fund to the Department of Social Services.