# Anti-Trafficking in Persons Programs

**Agency:** Health & Human Services  
**Account:** Discretionary Programs  
**Source document:** Administration for Children, Families, and Communities · p. 9  
**Vintage:** President's Budget PB2027  
**Canonical URL:** https://hitchintel.com/budget/hhs/anti-trafficking-in-persons-programs  

> **Trust:** parsed from the agency Congressional Justification. Approximate, **not summable**, verify at the cited page.

## Funding ($M)

| Fiscal year | Basis | Amount |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FY2025 | enacted | 30.8 |
| FY2026 | enacted | 30.8 |
| FY2027 | request | 30.8 |

## Health & Human Services discretionary budget authority (OMB PBDB — authoritative)

FY2027 $91.60B, FY2026 $131.10B. This is the agency total, not a sum of the parsed lines.


## What this funds

The Trafficking Victims Protection Act of 2000 (TVPA) (P.L. 106-386), and subsequent amendments and reauthorizations, allow ACFC to assist foreign national and domestic (United States citizen and lawful permanent resident) victims of severe forms of human trafficking and improve the national response to human trafficking through a number of efforts, including: ' providing victims with access to benefits and services, ' developing and delivering training and technical assistance, ' conducting research, program evaluations, and data collection, and ' raising awareness and funding education and prevention efforts. The TVPA defines severe forms of trafficking in persons as "sex trafficking in which a commercial sex act is induced by force, fraud, or coercion, or in which the person induced to perform such act has not attained 18 years of age or the recruitment, harboring, transportation, provision, or obtaining of a person for labor or services, through the use of force, fraud, or coercion for the purpose of subjection to The TVPA authorizes ACFC to provide Certification and Eligibility Letters to foreign national victims of a severe form of trafficking in persons (human trafficking), making them eligible to apply for services and benefits to the same extent as refugees. ACFC, in coordination with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), issues Certification Letters to foreign national victims of trafficking meeting eligibility requirements based on DHS issuing Continued Presence, a T-visa, or statement of a bona fide T-visa application. ACFC also issues Eligibility Letters in response to Requests for Assistance from individuals on behalf of foreign national minor victims of trafficking. In situations of potential trafficking, ACFC issues Interim Assistance Letters to minors and then makes a final determination following consultation with the U.S. Department of Justice, DHS, and non-governmental organizations with expertise on identifying and serving victims of trafficking. The TVPA also authorizes the provision of comprehensive case management services to qualified foreign national victims of trafficking, potential victims seeking and who have received HHS certification and eligibility determinations, and certain family members. The William Wilberforce Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act of 2008 (P.L. 110-457) authorizes grants to assist domestic victims of human trafficking through the provision of services and other assistance such as case management, emergency housing, referrals to community-based public services, and outreach and victim identification. Grant-funded programs coordinate services for victims Administration for Children, Families, and Communities Page 25 across multiple systems of care, including child welfare, runaway and homeless youth, domestic violence,


**Where it sits:** Civilian / Non-Defense › Health & Human Services › Administration for Children, Families, and Communities › Discretionary Programs › Refugee and Entrant Assistance


*HitchAI is an independent intelligence service, not affiliated with the U.S. government. Civilian line dollars are parsed from agency Congressional Justifications and are approximate.*