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TANF State Plan FFY 2026 Effective October 1, 2025 Page 15 of 24 • Extended Cash Assistance • Transitional Services: Supportive services must be directly related to maintaining employment and may include mentoring, counseling, and training for up to 12 months. • Career Enhancement Services: Supportive services help individuals maintain or obtain employment. Career Enhancement supportive services must not extend beyond four (4) months per episode of need, and the individual may only receive one (1) Career Enhancement payment in a twelve (12) month period.

W. Supportive Services for Refugees Supportive Services payments are payments made to help families obtain, maintain, or enhance employment. Refugee families with children who are receiving services under the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) funding may receive Supportive Services payments. In addition, refugee families who are no longer receiving ORR funded services may also receive Supportive Services payments if they are at or below 200% of Federal Poverty Guidelines or are receiving Food Stamps, Medicaid or ICCP benefits. Supportive Services payments are made directly to vendors and may include work-related expenses such as transportation costs, clothing, necessary tools and equipment, licensure, and certification fees. Expenditures for Supportive Services may not be paid for child care, medical services, purchase of vehicles, housing and utility costs, services for children, credit card accounts, household items, fines, professional union or trade dues, or any services available through another resource, as these expenses do not fall under the Supportive Services category. X. Receipting Services Only TANF funds are used for child support receipting only services not allowed through the IV-D Program to accomplish TANF Purpose 4. These are cases where an order has already been established through family court not involving the department requiring a non-custodial parent to pay child support to the custodial parent. The department will provide for the family receipting of these payments only but will not enforce the order that was put into place, unless the department was involved in the establishment of the original child support order. Cases where the support order is on or after January 1, 1994, and the payment is made by wage withholding are eligible for funding by the Child Support Enforcement program. Older cases or cases where payment is not made by wage withholding an allocable portion may be charged to TANF. Y. Subsidized Employment Services The Division of Welfare began a subsidized employment program on February 1, 2010. This program creates employment for unemployed or under employed (i.e., under 200% of the Federal Poverty Guidelines) TANF-eligible Idahoans while supporting the current Welfare workforce and the unprecedented caseload increase in the Food Stamp program. Subsidized employment is a countable work activity in which a recipient’s cash assistance is diverted to an employer as an incentive for the employer to hire and train a TANF recipient for a position that can lead to full-time unsubsidized employment. A subsidized employment placement is intended to: • Provide a meaningful, paid work experience that will improve the participant’s long-term employability.