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LSC Funding
| Budget Category |
FY 2011 |
FY 2012 (PL 112-55) |
FY 2013 (PL 113-06) |
|
Basic Field Grants |
$378,641,200 | $322,400,000 | $316,144,749 |
|
Technology Initiative Grants |
$3,393,200 | $3,400,000 | $3,158,470 |
|
Loan Repayment Assistance |
$998,000 | $1,000,000 | $928,962 |
|
Management and Grants |
$16,966,000 | $17,000,000 | $15,792,345 |
|
Office of Inspector General |
$4,191,600 | $4,200,000 | $3,901,639 |
|
TOTAL |
$404,190,000 | $348,000,000 | $340,876,165 |
Current Status: On September 18, 2012, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution (CR) funding LSC at $350,129,760 for the first half of FY 2013 (Oct. 1 – March 27). This resulted from an initial allocation of $348 million, to which 0.612 percent was added, for a total of $350,129,760.
On March 1, 2013 across-the-board cuts to the federal budget under the Budget Control Act of 2011 (PL 112-25), also known as sequestration, went into effect. Under sequestration, LSC’s $350.1 million appropriation was reduced by 5 percent, resulting in a final appropriation of $332.6 million for LSC during the first half of FY 2013.
On March 26, 2013 Congress passed the Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 (PL 113-6) for the remainder of Fiscal Year 2013 (March 28 – Sept. 30). This spending measure provided LSC with an initial allocation of $365 million, which was reduced by two across-the-board rescissions (1.877 percent and 0.2 percent) and sequestration (5 percent), for a total of $340.8 million – approximately $8 million more than LSC was allocated in the CR for the first 6 months of the year after the March 1st sequestration.
Census Adjustment: Since 1996, LSC’s appropriation acts have required LSC to apportion basic field grant funds using the US Census Bureau’s Decennial Census poverty data. But the 2010 Decennial Census did not collect poverty data. Thus, LSC needed Congress to change the appropriations act language to (1) eliminate the decennial census reference, (2) enable the US Census Bureau to determine what data set LSC should use in the future, and (3) allow LSC to recalculate the poverty populations of its service areas every three, as opposed to every 10, years.
The Consolidated and Further Continuing Appropriations Act of 2013 included a legislative fix with respect to LSC’s poverty data. The new language eliminated the decennial census reference, enabled the US Census Bureau to determine what data set LSC should use in the future (American Community Survey (ACS)), and directed LSC to recalculate its service area poverty populations every three years.
The recalculation of service area poverty populations and resulting updated grant check amounts are to be phased-in over two years, i.e. during the remainder of FY 2013 and at the start of FY 2014. LSC will implement 50 percent of the change for FY 2013 payments beginning in June 2013. The change will be 100 percent effective for payments starting in January 2014.