Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Family Assistance Programs

What it does

This final rule amends the Grants to States for Public Assistance Programs regulations, the General Administration--State Plans and Grant Appeals regulations, the General Administration--Public Assistance Programs regulations, the Training and Use of Subprofessionals and Volunteers regulations, the Coverage and Conditions of Eligibility in Financial Assistance Programs regulations, the Financial Assistance to Individuals regulations, the Administration of Financial Assistance Programs regulations, the Fiscal Administration of Financial Assistance Programs regulations, the General Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Provisions regulations, the Ensuring That Recipients Work regulations, the Accountability Provisions--General regulations, the Expenditures of State and Federal TANF Funds regulations, the Other Accountability Provisions regulations, the Data Collection and Reporting Requirements regulations, the High Performance Bonus Awards regulations, the Implementation of Section 403(a)(2) of the Social Security Act Bonus to Reward Decrease in Illegitimacy Ratio regulations, the Methodology for Determining Whether an Increase in a State or Territory's Child Poverty Rate Is the Result of the TANF Program regulations, the Tribal TANF Provisions regulations, and The Native Employment Works (NEW) Program regulations to eliminate unnecessary or obsolete regulations. A plain language summary of the final rule is posted at https:// www.regulations.gov.

The Children and Families Administration's summary, as published in the Federal Register.

What changed in the regulation

19 parts of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations:

45 CFR 201, 45 CFR 204, 45 CFR 205, 45 CFR 225, 45 CFR 233, 45 CFR 234, 45 CFR 235, 45 CFR 237, 45 CFR 260, 45 CFR 261, 45 CFR 262, 45 CFR 263, 45 CFR 264, 45 CFR 265, 45 CFR 270, 45 CFR 283, 45 CFR 284, 45 CFR 286, 45 CFR 287

Wording on eCFR: the day before it took effect and from the day it took effect (first part listed).

Compared with

The Children and Families Administration has published 9 final rules in 2026 so far, compared with 2 in all of 2025.

Counted by the Tribune from Federal Register records since Jan. 1, 2025.

Before this

1 earlier Federal Register document under regulation identifier 0970-AD38 since Jan. 1, 2025.

• May 26, 2026 Notice of proposed rulemaking. Reducing Bureaucracy and Burden for Family Assistance Programs

What happens next and when

Effective date September 29, 2026.

The agency's dates, word for word.

Check it yourself

• The document in the Federal Register
• Title 45 on eCFR

The record as published

Source: the Federal Register (public domain). The document in the Federal Register