TANF Services
The Georgia Temporary Assistance for
Needy Families (TANF) State Plan

The Georgia Temporary Assistance for Need Families State Plan conducts a program to serve the broad purposes of Title 1, Block Grants to States for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (P.L. 104-193) using the state family assistance grant made under Section 103 of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996. The program goal is to provide necessary assistance to need families with children on a temporary basis and provide parents with job preparation, work opportunities, enforcement of child support, and support services to enable them to become self-sufficient, and leave the program as soon as possible. There will be no entitlement to any assistance under Georgia's TANF program, and cash assistance will be provided for a maximum of four years. The Certification of the Georgia plan, signed by former Governor Zell Miller, states that Georgia will operate a program to provide TANF so that children may be cared for in their own homes or in the homes of relatives; dependence of needy parents on government benefits ends by promoting job preparation, work; incidence of out-of-wedlock pregnancies is prevented and reduced and annual numerical goals to prevent and reduce the incidence of these pregnancies are established; and the formation and maintenance of two-parent families are encouraged. The grant received by families under the program will be called the Georgia Temporary Support Grant (GTSG).