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HR 4067 109th Congress House

TANF Recipients' Lifeline Act

Official title: To reform the program of block grants to States for temporary assistance for needy families.

Introduced: October 17, 2005 Introduced by: Velázquez, Nydia M. Democratic · New York See on congress.gov
Social Welfare Aid to dependent childrenAliensBilingualismCash welfare block grants
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Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

TANF Recipients' Lifeline Act - Amends part A (Temporary Assistance for Needy Families) (TANF) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to: (1) repeal the five year limit on TANF benefits; (2) require a state to which a TANF grant is made to use appropriate bilingual personnel and printed material in the administration of the state program in those portions of the state in which a substantial number of TANF recipients speak a language other than English; and (3) provide for inflation adjustment of the TANF block grant.

Amends the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 to exempt TANF benefits from the ban on federal means-tested public benefits for qualified aliens for the first five years after lawful entry into the United States.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 4067: TANF Recipients' Lifeline Act. 109th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4067/
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"H.R. 4067: TANF Recipients' Lifeline Act." 109th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/109-HR-4067/.
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