Both the number of children in the Granite State and the number of children receiving scholarships as a percentage of all New Hampshire children ages birth to 13 has decreased over time. Proportional use of scholarships, however, should remain relatively stable given the income metrics used to set eligibility. Proportional use peaked at 2.9 percent ...
The New Hampshire Child Care Scholarship Program, funded through a state and federal fiscal partnership, subsidizes child care tuition to make high quality early care and education affordable and accessible to families with low and moderate incomes. The program added an income eligibility expansion, which was authorized as part of the current State Budget and ...
According to the New Hampshire Housing’s 2024 Residential Rental Cost Survey Report, the median monthly rent for a two-bedroom unit in the Granite State, including utilities, was $1,833. The 3.9 percent increase in this cost from 2023 was slightly higher than the average of 3.3 percent annual inflation faced by consumers in New England overall. ...
New Hampshire has had a continuing balance of unspent federal TANF dollars which are carried over each year. At the end of State Fiscal Year 2024, the State had a balance of nearly $74.5 million, an increase of about $3.3 million from the prior year, after adjusting for inflation to the most recent year. Annual ...
States are given the flexibility to spend Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) dollars in a variety of ways, as long as the uses align with the federal program’s purposes. Similarly to national trends, the majority of TANF funds in New Hampshire are spent on basic cash assistance, which accounted for about 43 percent of ...
The state’s Financial Assistance for Needy Families (FANF) program provides cash assistance for Granite State families with low incomes who earn up to 60 percent of the federal poverty guidelines, or $1,291 per month for a family of three. Enrollment in the program increased following adjustments to the income eligibility threshold outlined in the State ...