3441 Post Employment Services Specific to TANF - Services are designed to help the client avoid exhausting their lifetime TANF limit on assistance.
3441.1 Work Incentive Payment Program - This payment is designed for those cases where ineligibility for TANF exists due to excess income when earned income is involved. This payment will assist clients in maintaining employment and can be issued for five consecutive months beginning the first month of ineligibility following a benefit eligible month. The Work Incentive payment is not available when TANF ineligibility is due to the income of a family member who is not in the cash assistance plan (Coded FRE). (See KEESM 1111 for specific requirements to the Work Incentive Payment)
3441.2 Work Retention Payment - Upon documentation of employment that discontinues the TANF benefits making the client eligible for transitional services or the Work Incentive Payment, the career navigator may issue a Work Retention Payment. The first day of the month that TANF is discontinued, the career navigator may issue a $100.00 support payment on the client’s EBT account and send the W-806 notice. When the client can document they have worked 90 consecutive days from the discontinuance of their TANF benefits without a break of more than 2 working days, the career navigator will post a $300.00 support payment to the client’s EBT account and send the W-806 notice. These payments will not count against any food assistance benefits as they are issued as support benefits. The payment shall be issued under the Unsubsidized Employment activity. The client must provide documentation post marked no later than day 100 after the discontinuance of TANF benefits to receive the Work Retention Payment. The career navigator will give the client the date by which the 90 day documentation is due when they send the W-806 for the first $100.00 payment. This will be the client’s only notification for the due date of the documentation to receive the $300.00 payment. The client may continue to receive the Work Incentive payment in conjunction with the Work Retention Payment. The Work Retention Payment will not count as TANF months on the client’s case. The Work Incentive Payment will always count as TANF months on the client’s case.