ADMINISTRATION
FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES, DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
AUTHORIZATION:
Social
Security Act, Title XX, as amended; Omnibus Budget Reconciliation
Act of 1981, as amended, Public Law 97-35; Jobs Training Bill, Public
Law 98-8; Public Law 98-473; Medicaid and Medicare Patient and Program
Act of 1987; Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987, Public Law
100-203; Family Support Act of 1988, Public Law 100- 485; Omnibus
Budget Reconciliation Act of 1993, Public Law 103-66; 42 U.S.C.
1397 et seq.
To
enable each State to furnish social services best suited to the
needs of the individuals residing in the State. Federal block grant
funds may be used to provide services directed toward one of the
following five goals specified in the law: (1) To prevent, reduce,
or eliminate dependency; (2) to achieve or maintain self-sufficiency;
(3) to prevent neglect, abuse, or exploitation of children and adults;
(4) to prevent or reduce inappropriate institutional care; and (5)
to secure admission or referral for institutional care when other
forms of care are not appropriate. In addition, special funding
was provided to some states in fiscal year 1995 and 1996 for supplemental
SSBG grants in support comprehensive community revitalization projects
in 104 federally designated Empowerment Zones (EZs) and Enterprise
Communities (ECs). The supplemental funding is called "EZ/EC
SSBG." The States, through the designated localities, may use
the EZ/EC SSBG funds for activities included in each locality's
strategic plan for comprehensive revitalization and directed toward
goals 1, 2 or 3 listed above. These funds will remain available
until December 21, 2004. Information about this component of the
SSBG is included below as appropriate.
TYPES
OF ASSISTANCE:
Formula Grants. Place Cursor Here for Definition
USES
AND USE RESTRICTIONS:
Federal
funds may be used by States for the proper and efficient operation
of social service programs. Except for items (1) and (4) below,
for which a waiver from the Secretary may be requested, Federal
funds cannot be used for the following: (1) The purchase or improvement
of land, or the purchase, construction, or permanent improvement
of any building or other facility; (2) the provision of cash payments
for costs of subsistence or the provision of room and board (other
than costs of subsistence during rehabilitation, room and board
provided for a short term as an integral but subordinate part of
a social service, or temporary shelter provided as a protective
service); (3) the payment of wages to any individual as a social
service (other than payment of wages to welfare recipients employed
in the provision of child day care services); (4) the provision
of medical care (other than family planning services, rehabilitation
services or initial detoxification of an alcoholic or drug dependent
individual) unless it is an integral but subordinate part of a social
service for which grants may be used; (5) social services (except
services to an alcoholic or drug dependent individual or rehabilitation
services) provided in and by employees of any hospital, skilled
nursing facility, intermediate care facility, or prison, to any
individual living in such institution; (6) the provision of any
educational service which the State makes generally available to
its residents without cost and without regard to their income; (7)
any child day care service unless such service meets applicable
standards of State and local law; (8) the provision of cash payments
as a service; or (9) for payment for any item or service (other
than an emergency item or service) furnished by an individual or
entity during the period when such individual or entity is excluded
pursuant to Section 1128 or Section 1128(A) of the Social Security
Act from participation in this program; or at the medical direction
or on the prescription of a physician during the period when the
physician is excluded based on Section 1128 or 1128(A) from participation
in the program and when the person furnishing such item or service
knew or had reason to know of the exclusion (after a reasonable
time period after reasonable notice has been furnished to the person).
A State may transfer up to 10 percent of its allotment for any fiscal
year to the preventive health and health services, alcohol and drug
abuse, mental health services, maternal and child health services,
and low-income home energy assistance block grants. (EZ/EC SSBG:
States must allow the designated EZs and ECs to use the funds for
projects included in their strategic plans. To the extent that a
designated locality uses the funds for a project in support of a
"Program Option" described in Section 2007 of the Social Security
Act, the above listed prohibitions do not apply.)
ELIGIBILITY
REQUIREMENTS:
Applicant
Eligibility: The 50 States, the District of
Columbia, Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, the Commonwealth
of the Northern Mariana Islands, and American Samoa.
Beneficiary
Eligibility: Under Title XX, each eligible
jurisdiction determines the services that will be provided and
the individuals that will be eligible to receive services.
Credentials/Documentation:
Prior to expenditure of funds, the State must report on the intended
use of the payments the State is to receive, including information
on the types of activities to be supported and the categories
or characteristics of individuals to be served.
Pre-application
Coordination: None. This program is excluded
from coverage under E.O. 12372.
Application
Procedure: Submission of a pre-expenditure
report application is required.
Award
Procedure: States are awarded funds quarterly.
Deadlines:
None.
Range
of Approval/Disapproval Time: Not applicable.
Appeals:
See 45 CFR, Part 16, Procedures of the Departmental Appeals Board.
Renewals:
Not applicable.
ASSISTANCE
CONSIDERATIONS:
Formula
and Matching Requirements: Section 2003 of Title
XX of the Social Security Act specifies how the allotments for each
State and jurisdiction will be determined. Each State is entitled
to payments in an amount equal to its allotment for that fiscal
year. There is no matching requirement. Allotments for Title XX
are subject to a limitation of $2,800,000,000 (estimate). The allotment
for the jurisdictions of Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands,
and the Northern Mariana Islands shall be an amount which bears
the same ratio to the amount authorized for Title XX as the fiscal
year 1981 allocation bore to $2,900,000,000. The allotment for American
Samoa shall be an amount which bears the same ratio to the amount
allotted to the Northern Mariana Islands for that fiscal year as
the population of American Samoa bears to the population of the
Northern Mariana Islands. Each State's and the District of Columbia's
allotment are proportional to its portion of the national population
of the amount authorized for Title XX minus the amount authorized
to the other jurisdictions. The statistical factors used for fund
allocation are the State population and total U.S. population (ratio
of population of all States and the District of Columbia to total
population); source, "Current Population Reports," P- 25, Bureau
of the Census.
Length
and Time Phasing of Assistance: Grants are
awarded quarterly on a fiscal year basis. The Electronic Transfer
System will be used based on quarterly grant awards for monthly
cash draws from Federal Reserve Banks. The funds will remain available
for projects and programs in the designated localities until December
21, 2004.)
POST
ASSISTANCE REQUIREMENTS:
Reports:
An annual report is required. The report shall be in such form and
contain such information as the State finds necessary to provide
an accurate description of such activities, to secure a complete
record of the purposes for which funds were spent, and to determine
the extent to which funds were spent in a manner consistent with
the pre-expenditure reports required under Section 2004 of the Act.
The report must include the services provided in whole or in part
with block grant funds; the number of children and the number of
adults receiving each service; expenditure data for both children
and adults for each service; the criteria applied in determining
eligibility for each service, including fees; and the method(s)
by which each service was provided. States must provide DHHS with
an annual report (Standard Form 269). For EZ/EC SSBG, States are
also required to provide a final report at the end of the grant
period. The grant period ends for EZ/EC SSBG on December 21, 2004.
Audits:
Audits are conducted in accordance with the regulations in 45
CFR 74 and 92.
Records:
States are required to maintain records documenting the purposes
for which expenditures were made.
FINANCIAL
INFORMATION:
Account
Identification: 75-1534-0-1-506.
Obligations:
(Grants) FY 01 $1,725,000,000; FY 02 est $1,700,000,000; and FY
03 est $1,700,000,000.
Range
and Average of Financial Assistance:
From $56,000 to $207,311,000; Average: $30,263,000.
Fifty-seven grants were awarded in fiscal year 2001. It is estimated
that 57 grants will be awarded in fiscal years 2002 and 2003.
REGULATIONS,
GUIDELINES, AND LITERATURE:
45 CFR 96.
INFORMATION
CONTACTS:
Regional
or Local Office: Local Office: Not applicable.
Regional Office: Office of Community Services Regional Liaisons
in the Office of the Regional Administrator. (See Appendix IV of
the Catalog for Regional Offices.)
Headquarters
Office: Director, Office of Community Services,
Division of State Assistance, 370 L'Enfant Promenade, SW., Washington,
DC 20447. Telephone: (202) 401-2333. Contact: Margaret Washnitzer
or e-mail address: mwashnitzer@ACF.DHHS.GOV.
Web
Site Address: http://www.acf.dhhs.gov/programs/ocs/ssbg
EXAMPLES
OF FUNDED PROJECTS:
States and other eligible jurisdictions determine their own social
services programs. Examples of funded services include child day
care, protective and emergency services for children and adults,
homemaker and chore services, information and referral, adoption,
foster care, counseling, and transportation.
CRITERIA
FOR SELECTING PROPOSALS:
All States, the District of Columbia, and the five other jurisdictions
will receive their share of funds if they submit a pre-expenditure
report that meets the requirements.
