(a) In order to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds, a State must:
- (1) Be a needy State, as defined in § 260.30 of this chapter; and
- (2) Submit to ACF a request for contingency funds for an eligible month (i.e., a month in which a State is a needy State).
- (b) A determination that a State is a needy State for a month makes that State eligible to receive a provisional payment of contingency funds for two consecutive months.
- (c) Only the 50 States and the District of Columbia may receive contingency funds. Territories and Tribal TANF grantees are not eligible.