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28 services, retention and re-employment services. These services meet TANF purposes 1 and 2, and do not provide basic income support or constitute “assistance” under the Federal rules.
4.0 STATE MAINTENANCE OF EFFORT (MOE) EXPENDITURES As a condition of receiving federal TANF funds, states are required to spend a certain amount of their own funds (“Maintenance of Effort”) on TANF-allowable categories. South Carolina’s State MOE funds are expended in the following categories:
(1) Basic Assistance: cash payments, vouchers, and other forms of benefits designed to meet a family’s ongoing basic needs (i.e., for food, clothing, shelter, utilities, household goods, personal care items, and general incidental expenses).
(2) Education and Training Activities: secondary education; adult education, GED or equivalent and ESL classes; education directly related to employment; job skills training; education provided as vocational educational training or career and technical education; and post-secondary education.
(3) Early Care and Education: a. Child Care (spent or transferred): child care expenditures for families that need child care to work, participate in work activities or for respite purposes. Also includes funds transferred to Child Care and Development Fund (CCDF) Discretionary. b. Pre-Kindergarten/Head Start: pre-kindergarten or kindergarten education programs, expansion of Head Start programs, or other school readiness programs.
(4) Program Management: administrative costs and systems costs related to monitoring and tracking under the program.
(5) Non-assistance: support services (including transportation), job retention programming, wage subsidies, relocation assistance, and coordination with other agencies for services such as parenting programs, safety equipment, business and job retention services. Non-assistance funding is available for TANF applicants and recipients.
(6) Other work activities: subsidized employment, on-the-job training, work experience, and community service for TANF applicants and recipients.
(7) Out-of-wedlock pregnancy prevention: in-school pregnancy prevention programs serving students whose family income is at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty Level.