SF 3341 Senate Long Description
Modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program; providing for the distribution of child support and maintenance received by the state as a pass through to certain individuals; including the support and maintenance in the definition of income for child care programs eligibility purposes; expanding the required uses of temporary assistance for needy families block grant money under MFIP to welfare to work transportation and reimbursements for the federal share of child support collections passed through to custodial parents; requiring the commissioner of human services to annually treat financial assistance expenditures made to or on behalf of certain minor children as expenditures under a separately funded state program and report the expenditures to the federal department of health and human services as separate state program expenditures; providing for the claiming of the pass through of child support as maintenance of effort for the TANF grant; expanding the definition of unearned income under MFIP to child support and maintenance payments and providing an income exclusion for a certain percentage of current child support and maintenance payments; removing anticipated child support and maintenance from the MFIP monthly income test; eliminating the requirement for county agencies to budget child support income received by assistance units to determine the assistance payment amount and a certain supplementary assistance payments restriction; expanding local service unit plan content requirements; providing for the allocation of local intervention for family employment funds; appropriating federal TANF funds to the commissioner, requiring a certain amount to be added to the appropriation for MFIP employment services, another amount for training job counselors and evaluating the effectiveness of the local interventions and another amount to reimburse the federal government for the federal share of the child support recoveries passed through to custodial parents; requiring the commissioner to identify and claim allowable state expenditures from the income tax working family credit as TANF maintenance of effort and to use a certain amount of money for the extended learning initiative to establish or expand after and summer school programs to assist low income children and families; requiring the commissioner to transfer a certain amount of money to the housing finance agency (HFA) for transfer to the housing development fund; repealing a certain requirement for county agencies to apply unearned income to the MFIP standard of need (mk)