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• Arrearage and/or excess child support payments and collections recorded in the Eligibility System in the calculation. • Do not include current child support payments received by the family which were used to calculate the AG’s TANF grant when determining the amount of the prior month’s child support. (Check the Eligibility System for current child support collections.) • Subtract this prior month’s amount of child support collections from the AG’s current TANF grant. • Add this amount to the AG’s monthly SNAP allotment. If an ineligible TANF individual is included in the SNAP AG, the SNAP benefits must be pro-rated to exclude both the individual and their SNAP benefits before adding the (new) monthly SNAP allotment to the CWEP calculation. • Divide the result by the federal minimum wage to obtain the monthly participation requirement. • To obtain the “weekly” hours of participation, divide the monthly amount by five (5) and round down to the nearest whole number.

TANF recipients may not volunteer for additional CWEP hours and should not be scheduled participation for more than the number of hours determined by the above formula. Ways reduced CWEP hours can be fulfilled, single and 2-parent AG’s, include: • Child under 6 TANF AG required 20 hours of weekly participation and CWEP formula exceeds 20 hours, the participant will be complying when participating for a weekly average of 20 hours. • One-parent AG required 30 hours or 50 hours for mandatory two-parents of weekly participation and CWEP formula exceeds hours, the participant(s) will be complying when participating average required hours.

When both parents in a Two-Parent TANF AG are required to participate, the hours determined by the formula described above are to be allocated among those AG members. Employment takes precedence over other work activities, if one parent is employed, the CWEP hours are assigned to the other AG parent.

Deeming CWEP hours, when the CWEP formula results in less than the required 20, 30, or 50 hours, the weekly “core” activity requirement is considered to have been met using the hours from the CWEP formula (rounded down). The hours remaining up to the core weekly requirement are then deemed with the following exceptions: • If a single parent AG is required to participate 30 hours per week and the CWEP formula results in less than 20 hours, the hours remaining up to the 20 mandated core hours are deemed. The remaining 10 hours must be assigned to another core or non- core activity. • If the CWEP formula results in more than the 20 mandated core hours, but less than the required 30 hours, the individual is to be scheduled for the total number of CWEP hours. The remaining hours needed to achieve an average of 30 hours per week must be assigned in another core or non- core activity.

When a CWEP placement is stacked with another activity, the CWEP hours take precedence over the weekly hourly requirement of the other activity. However, unsubsidized employment will have priority over participation in any other work-related activity.