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HR 3156 119th Congress House Social Welfare

Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2025

Introduced: May 1, 2025 Introduced by: LaHood, Darin Republican · Illinois See on congress.gov
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Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2025

This bill reauthorizes the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program through FY2030, establishes new metrics for measuring states’ performance within the program, and makes other changes to the program’s requirements.

Under current law, states participating in TANF are required to meet certain minimum participation rates, or percentages of beneficiaries engaged in work. The bill eliminates minimum participation rates and replaces them with metrics tied to employment outcomes, such as former beneficiaries’ rates of unsubsidized employment and earnings at particular points in time. The Department of Health and Human Services must publish a website with information on each state’s performance. 

The bill also requires states to create an individual opportunity plan for each beneficiary and to meet with each work-eligible beneficiary at least every 90 days to review the individual’s progress under their plan. (Under current law, individual plans are optional.)

Further, the bill prohibits states from using TANF funds to provide benefits to families with monthly incomes that exceed twice the poverty line.

Finally, the bill requires states to spend at least 25% of their TANF grant funds on certain activities, including work supports, education and training, and apprenticeships. The bill also lowers the percentage of TANF funds that a state may spend on administrative costs to 10%, with an exception for costs related to case management necessary to assist in the development of individual opportunity plans.

What's happening now May 1, 2025

Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means.

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Carey, Mike
Ohio · Jun 23, 2025
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Yakym, Rudy
Indiana · Jun 23, 2025
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U.S. Congress. (2026). H.R. 3156: Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2025. 119th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/119-HR-3156/
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