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Awards/BLOCK GRANT (A)

$100,808,263

Department of Health and Human Services·Administration for Children and Families

to ILLINOIS DEPARTMENT OF HEALTHCARE & FAMILY SERVICES

ACTION DATE2026-05-05·SOURCEUSASPENDING·SOURCE IDASST_NON_2601ILSCSS_075
Award description

SCSS-2026 - CHILD SUPPORT SERVICES - STATES

Verbatim from USAspending.gov. Capitalization, abbreviations, and codes are unchanged.

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What the model surfaced from this award

Confidence: high
In plain English

Federal block grant to Illinois for administering child support collection and enforcement services statewide.

Sub-sectors
child-support-enforcementstate-block-grantfamily-services
Why this matters

Child support enforcement is critical infrastructure for reducing welfare dependency and ensuring parental financial responsibility for children.

Generated by award_classification v2.0.0 via claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 on 2026-05-15. Cost: $0.001898.

Period of performance
Start
2025-10-01
End
2026-09-30
Status
activein 136 days
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Sources

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