---
kind: "section"
citation: "45 C.F.R. § 264.70"
title: "45"
number: "264.70"
heading: "What makes a State eligible to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds?"
url: "https://uscodex.org/cfr/45/264.70"
---

# §264.70. What makes a State eligible to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds?

- (a) **In order to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds, a State must—**
  - (1) Be a needy State, as defined in [§ 260.30](/cfr/45/260.30.md) of this chapter; and
  - (2) Submit to ACF a request for contingency funds for an eligible month (i.e., a month in which a State is a needy State).
- (b) A determination that a State is a needy State for a month makes that State eligible to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds for two consecutive months.
- (c) Only the 50 States and the District of Columbia may receive contingency funds. Territories and Tribal TANF grantees are not eligible.

## Notes

### Authority

Authority: 31 U.S.C. 7501 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 608, 609, 654, 1302, 1308, and 1337.

### Source

Source: 64 FR 17896, Apr. 12, 1999, unless otherwise noted.