42 U.S.C. § 623 : US Code - Section 623: Payment to States

Search 42 U.S.C. § 623 : US Code - Section 623: Payment to States

(a) Payment schedule
From the sums appropriated therefor and the allotment under this
subpart, subject to the conditions set forth in this section, the
Secretary shall from time to time pay to each State that has a plan
developed in accordance with section 622 of this title an amount
equal to 75 per centum of the total sum expended under the plan
(including the cost of administration of the plan) in meeting the
costs of State, district, county, or other local child welfare
services.
(b) Computation and method of payment
The method of computing and making payments under this section
shall be as follows:
(1) The Secretary shall, prior to the beginning of each period
for which a payment is to be made, estimate the amount to be paid
to the State for such period under the provisions of this
section.
(2) From the allotment available therefor, the Secretary shall
pay the amount so estimated, reduced or increased, as the case
may be, by any sum (not previously adjusted under this section)
by which he finds that his estimate of the amount to be paid the
State for any prior period under this section was greater or less
than the amount which should have been paid to the State for such
prior period under this section.
(c) Prohibited payments; exceptions
(1) No payment may be made to a State under this part, for any
fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1979, with respect to
State expenditures made for (A) child day care necessary solely
because of the employment, or training to prepare for employment,
of a parent or other relative with whom the child involved is
living, (B) foster care maintenance payments, and (C) adoption
assistance payments, to the extent that the Federal payment with
respect to those expenditures would exceed the total amount of the
Federal payment under this part for fiscal year 1979.
(2) Expenditures made by a State for any fiscal year which begins
after September 30, 1979, for foster care maintenance payments
shall be treated for purposes of making Federal payments under this
part with respect to expenditures for child welfare services, as if
such foster care maintenance payments constituted child welfare
services of a type to which the limitation imposed by paragraph (1)
does not apply; except that the amount payable to the State with
respect to expenditures made for other child welfare services and
for foster care maintenance payments during any such year shall not
exceed 100 per centum of the amount of the expenditures made for
child welfare services for which payment may be made under the
limitation imposed by paragraph (1) as in effect without regard to
this paragraph.
(d) Minimum State expenditures
No payment may be made to a State under this part in excess of
the payment made under this part for fiscal year 1979, for any
fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1979, if for the latter
fiscal year the total of the State's expenditures for child welfare
services under this part (excluding expenditures for activities
specified in subsection (c)(1) of this section) is less than the
total of the State's expenditures under this part (excluding
expenditures for such activities) for fiscal year 1979.