Section 1 Short title
This Act may be cited as the “Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act”.
Promoting Assistance with Transitional Help Act
A BILL
To amend title IV of the Social Security Act to modify the State maintenance of effort requirement, and for other purposes.
Sec. 2 Modification of State maintenance of effort requirement
In general— Section 409(a)(7)(B)(i)(I) of the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 609(a)(7)(B)(i)(I)) is amended—
in item (aa), by inserting before the period at the end the following: “, but not including (except as provided in item (dd)) cash assistance provided to families that would be eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part but for the application of section 408(a)(7)”; and
by redesignating items (dd) and (ee) as items (ee) and (ff) and inserting after item (cc) the following:
“(dd) Transitional assistance provided to families that would be eligible for assistance under the State program funded under this part but for the application of section 408(a)(7) in an amount not more than the amount necessary to replace the loss of any food assistance, rent assistance, low-income energy assistance, and childcare assistance lost as a result of increased family income from earnings or child support payments, for not more than 1 year after such loss.”
Effective date— The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply with respect to qualified State expenditures made by a State in any fiscal year that begins on or after October 1, 2014.