Earned Income Disregards

Filed Under: Earned Income Disregards, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Earned Income Disregards

Last Updated August 2023 States typically disregard a portion of a TANF recipient’s earned income before counting the remainder of the earnings in determining the family’s monthly benefit amount.  These state earnings disregard policies help to make work pay by allowing working TANF families to “keep” more of their earnings and not cutting off benefits Earned Income Disregards