Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The bill requires states to assess all work-eligible TANF recipients and develop individual opportunity plans with employment goals, job counseling, and 90-day periodic reviews, requires replaces TANF work participation rate requirements with employment outcome-based performance accountability measures including job placement rates at 2nd and 4th quarters post-exit, median earnings, and limits TANF eligibility to families below twice the poverty line, reduces administrative spending cap from 15% to 10%, prohibits direct spending on child care, and allows 50% fund transfers to workforce programs. It relies on compliance mandates, reporting requirements, exemptions, and appropriations. The main policy areas are Social Welfare, Education, Labor, and Trade.
Who Benefits and How
Workforce training and education providers could gain revenue opportunities, Workforce training programs under WIOA could gain revenue opportunities, and Workforce development programs and job placement services could gain revenue opportunities.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State welfare agencies administering TANF would take on compliance duties, Marijuana dispensaries and cannabis retailers could lose revenue opportunities, and Families with income above twice the poverty line could lose revenue opportunities.
Key Provisions
- Requires states to assess all work-eligible TANF recipients and develop individual opportunity plans with employment goals, job counseling, and 90-day periodic reviews.
- Requires replaces TANF work participation rate requirements with employment outcome-based performance accountability measures including job placement rates at 2nd and 4th quarters post-exit, median earnings...
- Limits TANF eligibility to families below twice the poverty line, reduces administrative spending cap from 15% to 10%, prohibits direct spending on child care, and allows 50% fund transfers to workforce programs.
- Requires states to spend at least 25% of TANF grants and 25% of qualified state expenditures on core activities including work supports, education, training, apprenticeships, and case management.
- Requires states to comply with federal improper payments laws and submit to HHS regulations on reviewing and reporting improper payments, with HHS required to submit a plan to Congress to reduce improper payments within...
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
The bill requires states to assess all work-eligible TANF recipients and develop individual opportunity plans with employment goals, job counseling, and 90-day periodic reviews, requires replaces TANF work participation rate requirements with employment outcome-based performance accountability measures including job placement rates at 2nd and 4th quarters post-exit, median earnings, and limits TANF eligibility to families below twice the poverty line, reduces administrative spending cap from 15% to 10%, prohibits direct spending on child care, and allows 50% fund transfers to workforce programs.
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare, Education, Labor, Trade
Primary Purpose
The bill requires states to assess all work-eligible TANF recipients and develop individual opportunity plans with employment goals, job counseling, and 90-day periodic reviews, requires replaces TANF work participation rate requirements with employment outcome-based performance accountability measures including job placement rates at 2nd and 4th quarters post-exit, median earnings, and limits TANF eligibility to families below twice the poverty line, reduces administrative spending cap from 15% to 10%, prohibits direct spending on child care, and allows 50% fund transfers to workforce programs.
Policy Domains
TANF Reauthorization and Reform
Identified Gains
- Workforce training and education providers
- Workforce training programs under WIOA
- Workforce development programs and job placement services
- State and tribal TANF programs
- Apprenticeship programs
Identified Costs
- State welfare agencies administering TANF
- Marijuana dispensaries and cannabis retailers
- Families with income above twice the poverty line
- State governments and state treasuries
- Child care providers receiving TANF funds
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Daines introduced the following bill; which was read twice …
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Finance.
Introduced in Senate
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
HHS administration, State IT systems for welfare administration, State and tribal TANF programs
State welfare agencies faces effects in multiple directions
Positive-direction: State and tribal TANF programs
Negative-direction: HHS administration, State IT systems for welfare administration, State governments and state treasuries, State welfare agencies administering TANF, State welfare agency administrative operations
Families with income above twice the poverty line, TANF benefit recipients, TANF program beneficiaries
Positive-direction: TANF program beneficiaries
Negative-direction: Families with income above twice the poverty line
Employers offering subsidized employment/apprenticeships, Workforce development and job counseling services, Workforce development programs and job placement services
Apprenticeship programs, Workforce training and education providers, Workforce training programs under WIOA
Research and consulting firms with welfare expertise
Government IT contractors and software vendors
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "the_secretary"
- → Secretary of Health and Human Services
- "the_state_agency"
- → State agency administering TANF program
Key Definitions
Terms defined in this bill
Cash, payments, vouchers, and other forms of benefits designed to meet a family's ongoing basic needs (such as for food, clothing, shelter, utilities, household goods, personal care items, and general incidental expenses)
Assistance and non-assistance transportation benefits (such as bus tokens, car payments, auto repair) provided to help families obtain, retain, or advance in employment, including goods like tools, uniforms, fees for licenses, bonuses, and incentives
Services such as domestic violence services, mental health, substance abuse and disability services, housing counseling services, and other family supports
Assistance or wage subsidies paid to work-eligible individuals at time of entry into subsidized employment such as on-the-job training or apprenticeship who are not receiving assistance
Ceases to receive a benefit under the State program funded under TANF
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