South Dakota is reducing TANF (welfare) payments by 10% across the board and simplifying how payments are calculated for different household types. Families with a parent will receive lower monthly benefits—for example, a single parent household drops from $512 to $461 monthly—while children living without parents (including those placed by child placement agencies) now receive the same payment standard. The changes eliminate separate payment rules for agency-placed children and consolidate payment categories from three to two, streamlining the program to match the state's budget constraints.
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The rule changes reduce the TANF standard payment by 10% to align expenditures with the appropriated budget and combines the payment standards into two. ‘Agency placed’ children will now have the same TANF payment standard as other children who are not with parents but are not agency placed.
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