Determining the Transitional Food Assistance (TFA) Benefit Allotment

The TFA benefit amount is based on information already known at the time the TANF ends. No further contact is required with the household until the end of the TFA period.

The TFA benefit amount is determined by using the Food Supplement Program budget for the last month that TANF cash was issued and deducting the TANF grant that the household is no longer receiving.

The resulting net income is used to calculate the TFA benefit amount.

The TFA benefit amount is frozen for the duration of the TFA period regardless of any changes to the household’s circumstances. See Transitional Food Assistance Requirements and Changes During the Transitional Food Assistance (TFA) Period below.

EXCEPTIONS: Only under the following circumstances are TFA benefits recalculated during the TFA period:

federally mandated updates to Food Supplement Program allotments and deductions in October;

recoupment; and

3. if a member of an TFA household moves out and either reapplies on their own or is reported as a new member in another Food Supplement household.