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BRIDGES ELIGIBILITY MANUAL STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES

• Actual Hours/wk: The Status of an activity must be saved as In Progress to enter Actual Hours/wk. Enter the number of hours per Verifications later in this item. Note: Actual hours must be entered for all WEIs for their participation in work related activities to be counted in the federal participation rate.

Verification of wage earning activities must be entered in the Actual Hours at least every six months. Project the actual hours by taking the average from at least two consecutive pay stubs that represent hours worked. Actual hours may be projected for up to six months or one week at a time.

Verification of unpaid activities must be entered in the Actual Hours of that activity aweekly for the WEI. The DHS-630, Weekly Activity Log, is completed and submitted by the WEI participant weekly to the worker who is monitoring that activity. The worker must enter the actual hours within two weeks of receipt. Note: Set the activity target date to the next date actual hours must be entered for each activity. PATH case managers continue to enter activities and actual hours on the OSMIS system. Activities documented in OSMIS will appear in the FSSP fields the day after they are saved on OSMIS. For any of a participant’s hours of work related activity to count towards the federal requirements, they must participate in at least 20 hours of core activities in addition to the remaining number of required hours in non-core activities per week. In a two-parent home that has a 35 hour/week work related partici- pation requirement, the group must participate in at least 30 hours of core activities in addition to the remaining number of required hours in non-core activities per week for their participation to count toward the federal requirement. In a two-parent home that has a 55 hour/week work related partici- pation requirement, the group must participate in at least 50 hours of core activities in addition to the remaining number of required hours in non-core activities per week for the their participation to count toward the federal requirement.