# 2024-31515: Feds Flunk Basic Math, Mess Up Child Welfare Funding

2024-31515, Notice of Allotment Percentages to States for Child Welfare Services State Grants; Correction, is a Federal Register notice from an unnamed agency published 2025-01-03, effective 2025-01-01; PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-06-08).

- Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31515
- As of: 2026-06-08
- Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts.

## Facts
- Document number: 2024-31515
- Title: Notice of Allotment Percentages to States for Child Welfare Services State Grants; Correction
- Type: Notice
- Agencies: unknown
- Citation: unknown
- Published: 2025-01-03
- Effective: 2025-01-01
- Comments close: not stated
- Significant: no
- Touches household money: yes
- Regulation identifier numbers: none
- Last updated: 2026-06-08

## In one line

Feds Flunk Basic Math, Mess Up Child Welfare Funding

## Summary

The government fixed a math mistake in how it splits child welfare grant money to states. Alabama’s share was right, but other states got the wrong percentages before. Now, the corrected numbers are official, so states can get the right funding starting in 2025.

## Abstract

The Administration for Children and Families published a document in the Federal Register published Wednesday, December 4, 2024, concerning notice of Allotment Percentages to States for Child Welfare Services State Grants. The formula used to calculate the allotment percentages for each state was not applied correctly. Although the percentage for the State of Alabama percentage was calculated correctly, the formula used to calculate the allotment percentages was not correctly applied to the remaining states.

## Effects PRIA read

- Corrected State Grant Percentages: benefit, medium. The Administration for Children and Families fixed a math error and published corrected allotment percentages for the Child Welfare Services State Grants. The updated table shows each state's percentage (for example, Alabama 61.01 and territories 70.00) and the corrected percentages are official so…

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## Sources
- [2024-31515 on federalregister.gov](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/01/03/2024-31515/notice-of-allotment-percentages-to-states-for-child-welfare-services-state-grants-correction)
- [2024-31515 as published (PDF)](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2025-01-03/pdf/2024-31515.pdf)

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Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/federal-register/2024-31515 (as of 2026-06-08).