The projections, which have been revised slightly since the release of CBO's budget outlook in January, will be published in a forthcoming report on CBO's reestimate of the President's fiscal year 2000 budget. The grant provided additional funding for several other purposes such as bonuses for good performance and reduced illegitimacy, grants to the territories and Indian tribes, supplemental grants, and a contingency reserve.
Funds allocated to states remain available to the states until spent.
The block grant amounts for most states have proved to be more than the states could spend in the near term as AFDC and TANF caseloads dropped by 40 percent from 1994 to 1998. Consequently, many states have accumulated sizable unspent balances that are expected to grow in the next several years, although more slowly than in the past. As of the end of 1998, states had not spent about 25 percent of the overall TANF grants. States' unspent balances varied widely. For example, Illinois, Connecticut, and Maine had spent all or almost all of their TANF funds, but Wyoming and Idaho had spent less than 20 percent of theirs.