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Financing Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Financing Temporary Assistance for Needy FamiliesIntroductionThe Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant was created in 1996 through welfare reform legislation to completely replace the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program, the major federal cash assistance program. Passed during the Clinton Administration, TANF was heralded as “the.