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Stricken language would be deleted from and underlined language would be added to the Code of Arkansas Rules. Proposed Rulemaking Title: Job Search Activities During TANF Application Process Promulgated by: Department of Human Services Division of County Operations DRAFT 09/05/2025 12:28:25 PM Title 20. Public Health and Welfare Chapter XIII. Division of County Operations, Department of Human Services Subchapter A. Generally Part 503. Transitional Employment Assistance and Work Pays Policy Manual Subpart 15. Arkansas Work Pays Program 20 CAR § 503-1501. Arkansas Work Pays Program generally. (a)(1) Acts 2005, No. 1705, established the Arkansas Work Pays Program. (2) The Arkansas Work Pays Program is an incentive program designed to encourage working Transitional Employment Assistance Program participants to remain employed after closure of the transitional employment assistance (TEA) case while increasing their hours of work and/or hourly wage.

(b)(1) Provided they meet Arkansas Work Pays Program eligibility requirements, families participating in the Arkansas Work Pays Program will receive: (A) A monthly cash assistance payment in the amount of two hundred four dollars ($204) for up to twelve (12) months; (B) Case management; (C) Supportive services; and (D) Job retention and advancement services. (2) The twelve (12) months will count toward the federal sixty-month time limit but not the state’s TEA twenty-four-month limit.