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12 4. On-the-Job Training (OJT) – training in the private or public sector that is given to a paid participant while the participant is engaged in productive work. The employer is subsidized to offset training costs. This activity may also include paid classroom instruction as required by the participant’s employer; 5. Grant-based OJT – a voluntary WTW activity that is performed in the public or private sector in which a recipient’s cash grant, or portion thereof, or the assistance grant savings resulting from employment, or both is diverted to the employer as a subsidy to wholly or partially offset the payment of wages. The total amount diverted does not exceed the family’s maximum assistance payment. The wage derived from the diverted cash grant and/or grant savings is considered nonexempt income and is not subject to the earned income disregard specified in Section B iii; 6. Supported work or transitional employment – both are voluntary WTW activities that are forms of grant-based OJT in which a recipient’s cash grant, or portion thereof, or the assistance grant savings resulting from employment, is diverted to an intermediary service provider to totally or partially offset the payment of wages to the recipient; 7. Work study – means a type of subsidized employment as described in 42- 701.2(s)(2) in which the subsidized employment placements are made through a college where a welfare-to-work participant is enrolled and making satisfactory progress; 8. Self-employment –means employment by means of earning a living by working as a sole proprietor or other business entity and not as an employee of another. Self-employment must include compensation as defined under “employment” in Section 42-701.2(e)(2); 9. Community service – a WTW training activity that is temporary and transitional, which is performed in the public or private nonprofit sector under close supervision, and provides participants with job skills that can lead to employment while also meeting a community need; 10. Adult basic education – a WTW activity needed by the individual to become employed and may include instruction in reading, writing, arithmetic, high school proficiency, or general educational development (GED) certificate instruction, and English as a second language; 11. Job skills training directly related to employment –training or education for job skills required by an employer to provide an individual with the ability to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace;