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S 3522 116th Congress Senate

Coronavirus TANF Expansion Act

Official title: A bill to extend and expand the temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) program and related programs to respond to the COVID-19 public health emergency, and for other purposes.

Introduced: March 18, 2020 Introduced by: Cotton, Tom Republican · Arkansas See on congress.gov
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 Latest action March 18, 2020

Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.

 Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Coronavirus TANF Expansion Act

This bill reauthorizes through December 31, 2020, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program and expands TANF eligibility and assistance to respond to the COVID-19 (i.e., coronavirus disease 2019) public health emergency. Specifically, states may (1) allow certain families that have incomes of up to 400% of the federal poverty level and that have experienced reduced incomes because of COVID-19 to receive TANF assistance, and (2) provide additional cash payments to these and other TANF recipients.

The Department of Health and Human Services must increase state and tribal TANF grants to offset increased expenditures that result from these changes. The bill provides appropriations for this purpose.

The bill also suspends TANF work requirements and other conditions during the emergency.

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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 3522: Coronavirus TANF Expansion Act. 116th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3522/
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"S. 3522: Coronavirus TANF Expansion Act." 116th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3522/.
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S. 3522, 116th Cong. (2026), https://openamerica.io/bill/116-S-3522/.
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