TANF cash assistance application approval rates in Mississippi fell dramatically in just a few months span in 2010, from 40% in May to 2.8% in July. After news broke in 2017 that Mississippi Department of Human Services had approved just 1.4% of applications the previous year, reported TANF cash assistance application approvals rates immediately jumped by more than 20% in a two month span. When the TANF scandal broke in February of 2020, approved TANF began falling again to a low of 4% in July of 2020. The current approval rate sits at around 8%.