The Marriage Calculator: Financial Consequences of Marriage Decisions
Database of State Policies Affecting Marriage
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The Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) program provides cash assistance to low-income families with children. The program rules are determined largely at the state-level, with few exceptions. To be eligible, a family must pass both nonfinancial tests based on the demographic characteristics of the family and financial tests based on the income and resource holdings of the family. Although not all of these rules vary based on one-parent and two-parent families, many states do vary their nonfinancial and financial rules based on family composition. The following describes the rules that vary due to changes in the living arrangements.
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