The Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) is issuing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Performance Incentives funding in SFY23 to each eligible County Department of Job and Family Services (CDJFS) that spent at least ninety per cent of its FFY21 combined TANF regular and TANF administration allocation as described in rules 5101:9-6-08 and 5101:9-6-08.8 of the Administrative Code.

ODJFS will issue up to ten million dollars for TANF performance incentives to eligible counties. Performance incentives will be based on each CDJFS’s final TANF regular and TANF administration allocations and expenditures. The final statewide allocation amount for SFY23 will be based on the remaining unspent balance of FFY21 TANF regular and TANF administration allocations after any increase or decrease due to budget transfers, redistributions, and inter-county transfers.

ODJFS will use the percentage of an eligible CDJFS's total TANF expenditures as compared to the total statewide expenditure amount of all eligible counties to determine each eligible CDJFS's per cent of the statewide amount to be allocated.

TANF performance incentive consists of federal funds. The assistance listing number (ALN), formerly known as the catalog of federal domestic assistance (CFDA) number, is 93.558.

The CDJFS may charge allowable service expenditures as defined in the county's prevention, retention, and contingency (PRC) plan against this allocation.

ODJFS communicates the funding period and liquidation period through the county finance information system (CFIS). The CDJFS can provide services through the funding period and disburse and report expenditures no later than the end of the liquidation period. Expenditures in excess of the allocation amount are the responsibility of the CDJFS.

For questions regarding fiscal reporting please contact your ODJFS Fiscal Supervisor or the CFIS Helpdesk CFIS_HELP_DESK@jfs.ohio.gov