DHHS Recovery Funds

This page provides information about funds awarded to the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA).  This information will be updated on a monthly basis.

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News Releases Food Stamp Benefits Will Increase in April Due to Stimulus Money - 3/16/09 Communities Receive Recovery Funds for Safe Drinking Water Projects - 3/4/09 Nebraska to Receive First Stimulus Funding for Medicaid, $38 Million - 2/27/09 Stimulus Awards & Expenditures As of February 28, 2010 Awarded-to-Date Expenditures-to-Date Stabilization Medicaid - Federal Medical Assistance Payments  $   186,265,363  $  151,867,351 Medicaid - Disproportionate Share Hospitals 695,687            0 Medicaid - Qualifying Individual Program Payments 2,577,050            0 Foster Care Program     1,071,487 811,427 Adoption Assistance Program  1,465,764 1,219,529 Total  $   192,075,351  $  153,898,307 Services Immunization2  $  1,089,875  $               299,251 Immunization - Admin  $  547,143  $       8,615 The Emergency Food Assistance Program - Admin 213,223         111,094 The Emergency Food Assistance Program1        443,264 443,264 Food Stamp Program/SNAP - Admin        893,799 444,592 Food Stamp Program/SNAP                 0 0 Elderly Nutrition        562,321 562,321 Child Care & Development Block Grant    Targeted Funds - Quality Expansion 975,439                 0    Targeted Funds - Infant & Toddler 564,907                 0    Discretionary Funds 10,259,006 4,664,000 Community Services Block Grant 6,969,553 4,312,411 Homelessness Prevention 5,128,578 222,745 Child Support Enforcement       2,331,974 227,819 Community Service Employment for Older Americans 182,015 57,721 Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) 182,700 0 Corporation for National and Community Service 413,345 105,631 Primary Care Offices 28,870 5,000 Epidemiology & Laboratory Capacity for Infectious Diseases 200,002 2,215 Survey and Certification Ambulatory Surgical Center Healthcare-Associated Infection Prevention Initiative 60,866 2,274 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention - Policy and Environmental Change 478,336 0 CDC Chronic Disease Prevention - Tobacco Cessation 534,756 0 Total  $  32,059,972  $  11,468,953 Grand Total  $  224,135,323  $  165,367,260 1 The award was in the form of commodities 2 The award was in the form of vaccines Documents in PDF format require the use of Adobe Acrobat Reader which can be downloaded for free from Adobe Systems, Inc.