4253855 Resolution 20-66, “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Time Extension Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”

A RESOLUTION

 

20-66 

 

                              IN THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

 

March 5, 2013

 

To declare the existence of an emergency with respect to the need to amend the District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1982 to delay the scheduled additional 25% reduction of Temporary Assistance for Needy Families payments for 6 months, from April 1, 2013, until October 1, 2013.

 

 

RESOLVED, BY THE COUNCIL OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, That this resolution may be cited as the “Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Time Extension Emergency Declaration Resolution of 2013”.

 

Sec. 2. (a)  Section 552(c-3)(1) of the District of Columbia Public Assistance Act of 1982, effective April 6, 1982 (D.C. Law 4-101; D.C. Official Code § 4-205.52(c-3)(1)) (“Act”), requires a reduction of 25% of the fiscal year 2012 public assistance payment for assistance units subject to section 511b of the Act for the period April 1, 2013, through September 30, 2013.

(b)  To prevent the implementation of this reduction in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (“TANF”) cash benefits on April 1, 2013, and to provide customers subject to this reduction additional time to access services and prepare for their eventual transition off TANF, the District must enact legislation by March 6, 2013.

(c) Therefore, emergency legislation is necessary by March 5, 2013 to authorize a 6-month extension of the reduction deadline to October 1, 2013. 

           

            Sec. 3.  The Council of the District of Columbia determines that the circumstances enumerated in section 2 constitute emergency circumstances making it necessary that the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Time Extension Emergency Amendment Act of 2013 be adopted after a single reading.

           

            Sec. 4.  This resolution shall take effect immediately.