FAQ's A. No, the entire $150,000,000 a year appropriation, passed in 2006, shifted funding from state “Out-of-wedlock birth bonuses” to marriage education and fatherhood grants. These bonuses had been allocated to 3-5 states each year. The winning states had their out-of-wedlock birth rates drop the previous year through demographic population changes. None of these states had done anything to encourage marriage or to reduce out-of-wedlock child births. Their demographics had changed so they saw a drop in out-of-wedlock births the previous year. Not one of the states that won these bonuses put money back into relationship strengthening, fatherhood, marriage education, or reducing out-of-wedlock births. In addition, no state sought to have these bonuses retained. They were a complete waste of government money. Not one penny of TANF funding was removed from any program designed to help at risk women.