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readiness/job search, the CM will review these ase in MAVERICS to verify each participant’s TANF status. Participants whose TANF case is going to be suspended or closed will not be placed in job readiness/job search. Participants who are not employed must attend job readiness/job search eight (8) hours per day, forty hours per week. Participants that are employed part-time may continue their job while also participating in job search activities. These participants will not be required to attend job readiness/job search for eight (8) hours per day. The case manager has the flexibility to schedule job readiness/job search around participant work schedules and work with them to obtain a better job or increased work hours. Participants who are working part-time must remain in the job readiness/job search activity until completion (four weeks), or until early completion upon placement in full-time employment or part-time employment at higher wages. The total daily scheduled hours should not exceed eight (8) hours per day for the combined work activities. The case manager will be responsible for verifying that the work hours for participants who are employed at the time of referral to TWP are sufficient to meet the federal participation requirement on a case-by-case basis, adding the component assignment and tracking participation in JAWS. NOTE: If the participant was assigned to a part-time job placement and the work hours are increased to full-time, the case manager will close out the part-time job placement in JAWS, and add the fulltime job placement and the new work hours. [PROGRAM COMPONENTS: COORDINATION OF

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JAWS Process for Placement in Job Readiness/Job Search The case manager will complete job readiness/job search component assignments in JAWS and refer participants to the job readiness trainer. Individual component referral notices (T005) will automatically be printed at the case manager’s local printer by JAWS each time the MPWA screen is successfully processed. (The provider of job readiness/job search must be added to the inventory.) The T005 will be given to the participant to present to the job readiness trainer. The case manager will use the PACR screen to document the date that the referral notice was given to the participant. The job readiness trainer has five (5) days to complete the back of the referral notice and return it to the case manager. If the form is not returned within five (5) days, the case manager will contact the job readiness trainer. If the participant did not show for the appointment, the case manager will start the conciliation process IMMEDIATELY. If the participant keeps the appointment with the job readiness trainer and the referral notice is returned, the case manager will scan the completed notice in the participant’s case record. NOTE: Manual form MDHS-EA-365A, Work Program Component Referral, will only be used when JAWS is not available. Anytime the MDHS-EA-365A is used, the case manager will enter the information in JAWS as soon as the system becomes available. Job Readiness Trainer/Employment Coordinator Activities