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for coordinating and monitoring all job search activities See Chapter 9, TANF Work Activities Defined.

JOB SKILLS TRAINING (JST)

Training, which includes vocational training, in technical job skills and equivalent knowledge and abilities in a specific occupational area. After the individual has participated the required hours in an allowable TWP activity, additional hours may be scheduled in JST in order to meet the participation rate. The Mississippi Department of Employment Security (MDES) is responsible for monitoring all JRA activities See Chapter 9, TANF Work Activities Defined.

LEGAL PARENT

The father of a child born of a legal marriage, the father of a child born out of wedlock when the child's paternity has been legally established, the adoptive father or adoptive mother of the child who has been legally adopted through proper court action, or the mother of the child. See Chapter 3, Caretaker Relative, Legal Responsibility, Assistance Unit.

MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS (MIS)

The MDHS Management Information Systems division that is responsible for supporting the Department’s programmatic and administrative data processing needs.

MAVERICS

Mississippi, Application, Verification, Eligibility, Reporting and Information Control System - The MDHS on-line computer system which supports Economic Assistance policy and procedures. See Chapter 12, Reporting and Volume X.

MILITARY LEAVE

This policy allows individuals receiving transitional transportation who are called into active military duty, to remain eligible for the service once they are discharged and return to work in accordance with the Uniform Services Employment and Re-employment Rights Act constraints. See Chapter 10, Military Leave.

MINOR PARENT

Parents under the age of 18 who are not married. The law requires that minor parents and the dependent child in their care live with the minor’s parent(s) or other adult caretaker relative in