Payments to States

75 percent of the total expenditures by the State for activities under the plan during the fiscal year or the immediately succeeding fiscal year; or the allotment of the State under subsection (a), (b), or (c) of section 629c of this title, whichever is applicable, for the fiscal year; and 75 percent of the total expenditures by the State in accordance with section 629f(b)(3)(B) of this title during the fiscal year or the immediately succeeding fiscal year; or the allotment of the State under section 629c(e) of this title for the fiscal year. Each State receiving an amount paid under subsection (a) may not expend any Federal funds to meet the costs of services under the State plan under section 629b of this title not covered by the amount so paid. A State may not expend any amount paid under subsection (a) for any fiscal year after the end of the immediately succeeding fiscal year. The Secretary shall pay any amount to which an Indian tribe or tribal consortium is entitled under this section directly to the tribal organization of the Indian tribe or in the case of a payment to a tribal consortium, such tribal organizations of, or entity established by, the Indian tribes that are part of the consortium as the consortium shall designate. The Secretary shall not make a payment to a State under this section with respect to expenditures for administrative costs during a fiscal year, to the extent that the total amount of the expenditures exceeds 10 percent of the total expenditures of the State during the fiscal year under the State plan approved under section 629b of this title. Out of any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated, there are appropriated $85,000,000 to carry out section 436(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 629f(a)] for fiscal year 2021, in addition to any amounts otherwise made available for such purpose. For purposes of section 436(b) of such Act, the amount made available by the preceding sentence shall be considered part of the amount specified in such section 436(a). In making payments under section 434(a) of the Social Security Act [42 U.S.C. 629d(a)] from the additional funds made available as a result of subsection (a) of this section, the percentage specified in section 434(a)(1) of such Act is deemed to be 100 percent.” Each State that has a plan approved under section 629b of this title shall, subject to subsection (d), be entitled to payment of the sum of— the lesser of— the lesser of— (Source: (Aug. 14, 1935, ch. 531, title IV, § 434, as added Pub. L. 103–66, title XIII, § 13711(a)(2), Aug. 10, 1993, 107 Stat. 653; amended Pub. L. 107–133, title I, § 104, Jan. 17, 2002, 115 Stat. 2415; Pub. L. 109–288, §§ 3(f)(1), 4(a)(3), 5(b)(3)(B), Sept. 28, 2006, 120 Stat. 1236, 1237, 1243; Pub. L. 118–258, title I, § 115(b)(2)(C), Jan. 4, 2025, 138 Stat. 2969.))