Postemployment Support Services

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Post-employment Support Services

• Agency for Workforce Innovation
• Statewide Training
• Spring 2005

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Definition

• Support services designed to help TANF eligible
  individuals retain employment, upgrade skills and
  increase earnings
• Transitional Childcare
• Transitional Transportation
• Transitional Education and Training
• Other RWB funded services

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Transitional Support Services

• Each participant must be informed of the
  availability of transitional services, how to
  obtain transitional services and eligibility
  requirements
• Orientation
• Opportunities and Obligations
• Each participant must be informed prior to case
  closure
• Transitional Employment Letter

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Transitional Support Services

• Each participant who is determined ineligible for
  cash assistance due to noncompliance with work
  activity requirements shall be contacted about
  compliance and work activity requirements
• Sanctioned individuals are not eligible for
  transitional services
• The RWB may develop an LOP to provide services to
  the Working Needy Poor

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Transitional Education and Training

• Former recipients of TCA who are working or
  actively seeking employment may receive
  non-assistance to upgrade their skills through
  education or training
• Support services, such as childcare, may be
  authorized for a participant who is employed and
  going to school
• How the childcare is provided (referral or TANF
  funds) depends on the participants status
• Only non-assistance can be provided

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Non-Assistance

• Federal law allows the State to provide
  non-assistance to eligible families to serve one
  of the four purposes of TANF
• The RWB must develop a local operating procedure
  regarding post-employment services and eligible
  populations

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Non-Assistance

• Cannot provide for basic on-going needs
• Non-recurrent short term benefits designed to
  deal with an emergency need
• Support services for employed families
• Work subsidies (paid through a third party)

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Scenario

• Jenny left cash assistance due to earnings in
  January of 2005. She is currently not working,
  but she would like to go back to school so she
  can get a better job
• Can the RWB provide job search assistance?
• Can the RWB provide transportation assistance?
• Can the RWB provide child care?
• Can the RWB pay for her classes?
• REMEMBER THE LOP OF THE RWB ALWAYS APPLIES!

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Transitional Transportation

• Former WT participants may receive transportation
  services to maintain and sustain employment or
  educational opportunities
• The RWB may only provide non-assistance
• Transitional transportation may only be provided
  up to 2 years
• The RWB LOP may limit provisions

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Transitional Child Care

• Transitional childcare may be provided to former
  recipients of TCA, individuals who were
  redirected from cash assistance by Up-Front
  Diversion, or individuals who received Relocation
  Assistance

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Transitional Child Care

• Former Recipients of TCA
• The WT participant left the WT program and TCA
  closed with earnings
• The participant secured employment prior to case
  closure
• The RWB is responsible for determining
  eligibility, do not rely on DCF closure codes

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Transitional Child Care

• Up-Front Diversion
• The applicant is provided applicant child care to
  secure employment and comply with WT Work
  Registration requirements
• The applicant must secure employment prior to
  receiving TCC within 90 days of the date the
  Up-Front Diversion process was started

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Transitional Child Care

• Relocation Assistance
• If the individual is an applicant, (s)he may
  receive applicant childcare to secure employment
  and comply with WT Work Registration requirements
• If the individual is a TCA recipient, (s)he may
  receive WT child care until TCA terminates
• Once the individual relocates, (s)he may receive
  job search child care for 30 days
• To receive TCC, employment must be obtained
  within 90 days after receipt of the Relocation
  Assistance payment

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Child Care

• Transitional child care is provided on a referral
  form
• Child care for those who are not eligible for a
  transitional child care referral must be paid out
  of local TANF funds
• CAUTION!

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Scenario

• John leaves TCA with earnings in January 2004.
  John returns to the One-Stop Career Center and is
  still employed. John provides proof of current
  earnings. John needs child care to continue
  working. Can John receive TCC?

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Scenario

• Sandy leaves TCA with a sanction. Sandy is
  allowed to comply and left her level 2 sanction
  starting today. Sandy enters the One-Stop Career
  Center with an employment verification and wants
  to comply to lift her sanction. Can Sandy get TCC?

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Transitional Services

• To receive a transitional child care referral or
  other services as a transitional participant,
  the family must retain eligibility requirements
• Remain below 200 of the Federal Poverty Level
• Meet the definition of family

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Post Employment Services

• Other non-assistance that can be provided include
• Job search aid
• Resume building
• Referrals to WIA or other programs
• Educational information
• ADVOCACY