Currently, work allowance expenses paid to a TANF recipient through the client registry information system-enhanced (CRISe) are deducted by ODJFS from a county's TANF Regular allocation on a quarterly basis. This often results in counties being overdrawn on the allocation at some point during the year.

Effective with FFY15, the Ohio Department of Job and Family Services (ODJFS) will create a separate allocation for these expenses. The new allocation amount will be a deduction from the TANF Regular allocation and will impact the total amount of TANF funding allocated to each county. ODJFS will issue the TANF Regular allocation as two allocations: TANF Regular and TANF Work Expense Allowance. The amount of the TANF Work Expense Allowance allocation will be based on the greater of the average of the county's last two years reported work allowance expenses or the total of the county's last four completed quarters' reported expenses.

ODJFS will reduce each county's TANF Work Expense Allowance allocation by their TANF Work Expense Allowance expenses as reported in CRISe each quarter. ODJFS will move additional funding, as necessary, from the TANF Regular allocation to the TANF Work Expense Allowance allocation. A county may also request additional funds be moved from TANF Regular to TANF Work Expense Allowance at any time during the fiscal year. Once ODJFS receives the final expense report for the fiscal year, ODJFS will move any remaining TANF Work Expense Allowance allocation back to the TANF Regular allocation.

For question regarding this funding, please contact your ODJFS Fiscal Supervisor/BCFTA at (614) 752-9194.