---
kind: "section"
citation: "42 U.S.C. § 1397n–7"
title: "42"
title_heading: "The Public Health and Welfare"
number: "1397n–7"
heading: "Limitation on use of funds"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/42/1397n-7"
units:
  - "Chapter 7 — Social Security"
  - "Subchapter XX — Block Grants and Programs for Social Services and Elder Justice"
  - "Division C — Social Impact Demonstration Projects"
---

# §1397n–7. Limitation on use of funds


Of the amounts made available to carry out this division, the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) may not use more than $2,000,000 in any [fiscal year](/usc/42/619.md?p=3) to support the review, approval, and oversight of [social impact partnership projects](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=4), [including](/usc/42/1301.md?p=b) activities conducted by—

- (1) the Federal Interagency Council on [Social](/usc/42/1397j.md?p=20) Impact Partnerships; and
- (2) any other [agency](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=1) consulted by the [Secretary](/usc/42/1301.md?p=a-6) before approving a [social impact partnership project](/usc/42/1397n–12.md?p=4) or a feasibility study under [section 1397n–3 of this title](/usc/42/1397n–3.md).

## Source credit

(Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title XX, § 2058, as added Pub. L. 115–123, div. E, title VIII, § 50802(2), Feb. 9, 2018, 132 Stat. 280.)