Assistance program
Refugee and Entrant Assistance Targeted Assistance Grants
-$11.5 Million committed in FY2018–FY2023
- Agency
- Administration for Children and Families, Health and Human Services, Department of
- Assistance
- Formula Grants
- CFDA number
- 93.584
- What it does
- The Targeted Assistance Grant program provides funding for employment-related and other social services for refugees, certain Amerasians from Vietnam, Cuban and Haitian entrants, asylees, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants in areas with large refugee populations. An arrival must be within five years of arriving in this country or grant of asylum to be eligible for services under these grants.
- Who benefits
- Beneficiaries include refugees, certain Amerasians from Vietnam, Cuban and Haitian entrants, asylees, victims of a severe form of trafficking, and Iraqi and Afghan Special Immigrants. Potential beneficiaries must be within five years of arrival in this country or grant of asylum to be eligible for services.
- Who applies
- (includes District of Columbia), State agencies, State Replacement Designees, and Wilson/Fish Alternative Projects are eligible to receive funding for assistance to counties and Targeted Assistance areas where, because of factors such as large refugee population, there exists a need for supplementation of available resources for services to refugees.
- Authorized by
- Victims of Trafficking Violence and Protection Act of 2000
- Department of Defense Appropriations Act of 2010
- Refugee Act of 1980
- Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2008
- Defense Authorization Act of 2008
- Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980
- Program site
- http://www.acf.hhs.gov/programs/orr ↗
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How to read these numbers
- Committed through this program
Money committed under this assistance listing (its CFDA program), counted in the year each action happened.
- How it's paid
Most programs pay out one way — a grant, or a direct payment to individuals; the flow bar only appears when a program genuinely mixes types.
- Some recipients aren't itemized
For entitlement programs like Social Security and Medicare, the government reports one aggregate instead of naming tens of millions of people, so the recipient roster isn't part of the public record.
- Awards, counted once
An award count is the number of distinct awards with at least one action that year — each counted once, however many times it was amended.
- The colored bars
Every bar on this page splits by how the money moves:
Direct payments