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attain new skills and employment experience that will improve their employability. The TWP orientation should continuously reinforce personal responsibility and the positive aspects, such as becoming self-reliant, obtaining full-time employment, brushing up on skills needed for employment, receiving supportive services (child care and transportation), earned income disregards, and receiving transitional benefits after losing TANF benefits because of earned income. The case manager should also send a clear and simple message to all participants that sanctions will be imposed for noncompliance. Whenever possible, TANF applicants must complete the SASSI, the TWP orientation and TWP work registration on the same day. If the TWP orientation cannot be done on the same day as the substance abuse screening, the case manager must reschedule the interview within three days of the initial TWP orientation appointment date. The TWP applicant has 10 days from the initial TWP orientation appointment date to provide the required TWP work registration documentation. Scheduling TWP Orientation Appointments Applications When it is determined an applicant is referable, the eligibility worker will schedule a TWP orientation appointment with case management within three days using the TANF Referral Log, MDHS-EA-319A. The MDHS case manager supervisor will use the MDHS-EA-319A to make case manager assignments. The case

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manager will “pull” the case in JAWS and then schedule a TWP in JAWS Once the client is “pulled,” the client’s information will display on the ICLI screen and assign the client to the MDHS Case Manager’s caseload. Recipients TWP orientation appointment must be scheduled for an ongoing participant any time he/she becomes referable to the TWP. When a recipient’s JOBS status code changes from an exempt code to a non-exempt code, the JAWS system will automatically schedule an TWP orientation appointment for the participant and alert the case manager of the scheduled appointment. In those counties that do not use the JAWS automatic scheduling process, the eligibility worker must alert the case manager of the upcoming change so that a TWP orientation appointment can be scheduled by the case manager. The eligibility worker will set a tickler for recipients claiming an exemption for caring for a child younger than age one (JJ) for the month prior to the last month of the JJ exemption to allow the MDHS case manager an opportunity to schedule a TWP orientation appointment timely.