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(i) What work activities are allowable in the Arkansas Work Pays Program case; and

(ii) The number of hours the participant can participate.

(B) This evaluation is necessary due to federal limitations on certain work activities.

(d)(1) The Program Eligibility Specialist will:

(A) Discuss allowable work activities with the participant; and

(B) Assign the participant to additional work activities needed to meet the weekly federal work participation requirement.

(2) See 20 CAR § 503-1511 for allowable work activities.

Example 1: Mr. Parent works fifteen (15) hours a week, and Mrs.

Parent works twenty (20) hours per week. They do not receive

federally funded childcare. They meet the work participation

requirement for a two-parent household not receiving federally

funded childcare.

Example 2: Mr. and Mrs. Worker receive federally funded

childcare. Mr. Worker is employed for twenty-five (25) hours per

week and takes a three-credit-hour class at the local college. Mrs.

Worker is assigned to Work Experience for twenty (20) hours per

week, and GED for four (4) hours per week. The Worker family has

twenty-five (25) paid hours, twenty-six (26) core hours, and four

(4) noncore hours. (The core hours include twenty (20) hours work

experience, three (3) hours of actual class time, and three (3)

hours of study/homework time based on credit hours). They meet

the federal participant requirement.

(e)(1)(A) The parent’s gross earnings along with other countable income must be below the one hundred fifty percent (150%) federal poverty level for the family size.