Jobs and Opportunity with Benefits and Services (JOBS) for Success Act of 2025
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Summary
What This Bill Does
This legislation reauthorizes and reforms the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, shifting from participation-based metrics to employment outcome-based performance measures. It requires states to assess all welfare recipients and develop individual opportunity plans, while tightening eligibility to families below twice the poverty line and mandating that 25% of funds go to core work activities.
Who Benefits and How
Low-income families seeking employment benefit from mandatory case management, job counseling, and individual opportunity plans reviewed every 90 days. Workforce training providers and job placement services gain expanded funding as states must spend at least 25% of grants on education, training, and apprenticeships. States gain flexibility to reserve 15% of funds for economic downturns and can transfer up to 50% to workforce programs.
Who Bears the Burden and How
State welfare agencies face increased compliance requirements including mandatory outcome reporting, improper payment reviews, and HHS plan approval. Higher-income families (above twice the poverty line) lose eligibility for TANF services. Child care providers may lose direct TANF funding as the bill prohibits direct spending on child care programs. Marijuana dispensaries are explicitly excluded from electronic benefit redemption.
Key Provisions
- Replaces work participation rates with employment outcome metrics (job placement 6 months post-exit)
- Requires individual opportunity plans and 90-day reviews for all work-eligible recipients
- Limits eligibility to families below twice the poverty line
- Mandates 25% of funds for work supports, education, training, and apprenticeships
- Prohibits TANF fund use at marijuana dispensaries
Evidence Chain:
This summary is generated from the full bill text using AI analysis. Expand "Detailed Analysis" below for identified beneficiaries/burden bearers.
At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Reauthorizes and reforms the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to strengthen work requirements, improve accountability measures, and better target funds to needy families through outcome-based performance metrics
Key Policy Areas
Social Welfare, Workforce Development, Government Administration
Primary Purpose
Reauthorizes and reforms the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program to strengthen work requirements, improve accountability measures, and better target funds to needy families through outcome-based performance metrics
Policy Domains
TANF Reauthorization and Reform
Identified Gains
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- Low-income families seeking employment
- Workforce training providers
- Job placement services
- State governments (increased flexibility)
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
Identified Costs
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation- State welfare agencies
- Child care providers
- Higher-income families previously eligible
- Marijuana dispensaries
Contextual inference, no direct clause citation
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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