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Description	The purpose of this regulation is to promulgate a regulation that will implement the recommendations of the TANF Advisory Committee and will serve as a comprehensive TANF regulation. On August 22, 1996, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) was enacted, introducing welfare reform at the federal level. In Title I of the Act, Congress replaced the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC) Program with the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant. This block grant considerably reduced federal regulation of cash assistance and employment services programs, allowing states to design their programs within limited parameters. Because the framework of the AFDC program was repealed by Congress, Virginia adopted pre-TANF federal definitions of eligibility criteria in order to maintain the program as it currently operated in Virginia. To that end, the 1997 Virginia General Assembly adopted legislation that codified the old rules, and an advisory committee comprised of legislators, socials services directors and workers, local government officials, and citizens, was formed to consider new TANF options. The committee made recommendations to simplify and streamline the TANF and VIEW programs.
State Authority	§ 63.2-217
Federal Authority	Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA), Public Law 104-193
Text of Regulation	Link to Virginia Administrative Code
Goals of Regulation	None entered
Meetings	See all meetings (1) relating to this chapter.