The Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program is a crucial financial support system for low-income households in ...

More than half the federal and state funding since 2002 for the Federated Indians of Graton Rancheria has gone to its tribal program that provides services to low-income people. The Tribal TANF ...

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the most important cash assistance programs for low-income ...

The Graton Rancheria program is attempting to improve education, break generational poverty and make tribal families healthy and self-sufficient. More than a dozen children gathered on a recent ...

Lindsie is your northern San Luis Obispo County community reporter, covering San Miguel, Paso Robles, Templeton, Atascadero and Santa Margarita. This Tuesday marked Tribal TANF of Atascadero’s third ...

The Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians announced Wednesday it has expanded Tribal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families to Yolo County. “We are excited to be expanding the program to Yolo County, ...

Native American families struggling to make ends meet in Yolo County now have access to additional federal assistance thanks to the Shingle Springs Band of Miwok Indians. The tribe announced Wednesday ...

The week before Christmas the Association of Village Council Presidents abruptly laid off 30 employees-- about 7 percent of its workforce. In a press release, AVCP cited current economic trends. But ...

A former Blackfeet tribal program director pleaded guilty Thursday to embezzling almost $300,000 from the tribe’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, or TANF, program between 2006 and 2010.

A redesign of the U.S. welfare system in 1996 made a special provision for Native Americans. As Daniel Kraker of Arizona Public Radio reports, Navajo tribal members in Arizona took control of their ...

A former Blackfeet tribal program director who admitted to embezzling almost $300,000 from the tribe’s Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program was sentenced Thursday by U.S. District Judge ...