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statutory requirements for operating such programs. The legislation further allows the
Department to establish guidelines for the approval of mixed-TANF households, but not
for pure-TANF households. As the legislation does not limit the amount that States can
reduce benefits for pure-TANF households, States can reduce benefit amounts for these
households by any amount. As previously discussed, the Department chose to use its
discretionary authority to ensure that mixed-TANF households do not experience a
reduction in benefits severe enough to endanger their ability to meet their nutritional
needs. Therefore, the Department has d. cided to adopt the 5/10/25 rule as final.
Several commenters want to simplify the benefit loss methodology by using a
single measurement or allow States more flexibility in deciding the mechanism for
achieving the desired results. The Department believes using a standard with incremental
limits on the amount that States can reduce provides States with greater flexibility in
program design than does a methodology with a single standard. At the same time, this
methodology ensures protection of the nutritional safety-net for households. In addition,
a national standard applied across all States ensures equitable treatment for households
participating in SFSPs.
A few commenters said the proposed benefit loss methodology is too complex.
FNS should provide actual methodologies to measure benefit reduction of mixed-TANF
households. The Department believes that regulating a specific methodology for
measuring benefit loss for mixed-TANF households is contrary to the goals of
simplification and would result in less flexibility for States. Rather than regulating what
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