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(7) The Department must inform families requesting child care or transportation of their rights and responsibilities: (a) The Department must respond to a request for child care or transportation within a reasonable period of time. (b) FI applicants and recipients are entitled a Fair Hearing, under the provisions of R.114-110 and R.114-1180, on issues concerning the appropriateness of, denial of, prompt issuance of, or intended actions to discontinue, terminate, suspend or reduce child care or transportation assistance. The denial or termination of child care or transportation assistance to an applicant or recipient must be communicated in writing. E. Wage Supplementation. (1) The Department may operate a wage supplementation program as a part of its Employment and Training Program. The Department may use Family Independence funds to develop and subsidize jobs for FI recipients as an alternative to aid. (2) A ‘‘supplemented job’’ is a job provided under this section to an eligible individual by an employer for which all or part of the wages are paid by the FI Program. (3) The Department may provide or subsidize any type of newly created unfilled job. It may determine the length of time the position is to be provided or subsidized not to exceed nine months, the amount of wages to be paid to the recipient, the amount of subsidy to be provided, and the conditions of participation, except that no participant may be assigned to fill any established, unfilled position vacancy. (4) An eligible individual is one which the Department has determined should be eligible to participate in the Employment and Training Program at the time of placement. Time of placement is the date on which the Department and the employer reach agreement on the terms of the placement and the specific individual to be placed. (5) The wage supplementation program is a voluntary program. (6) Participants in a supplemented job will be paid a wage equal to or greater than the federal minimum wage which shall be considered to be earned income. (7) The Department will calculate the amount of a participant’s residual grant (direct FI grant), if any, at the time of placement in the supplemented job and base the amount of the residual grant (the FI grant minus earnings and other countable income) for the duration of the individual’s participation in the supplemented job (in whole or in part) on that calculation. This is known as ‘‘freezing the grant.’’ If the individual becomes otherwise ineligible for FI benefits, the Department may allow the individual to continue in the supplemented job and divert the FI grant to the wage pool, but the Department shall not pay a residual grant to the individual. (8) If an individual in a supplemented job would have been eligible for transitional child care at the time of ineligibility for FI, she shall be eligible for transitional child care after her supplemented job ends for up to twenty-four months. (9) The Department will allow the earned income disregards for the length of the contract period. F. Relocation Assistance. (1) A FI caretaker recipient may be assisted in relocating to another area of the State or to another state if he has a verified job offer at the relocation site. (2) A FI caretaker recipient, in some instances, may be assisted in relocating to another area in the State or to another state without a verified offer of employment if the casemanager and the recipient have thoroughly evaluated the recipient’s existing circumstances as well as the opportunities at the relocation site and conclude that the family would be more likely to achieve self-sufficiency at the relocation site. The casemanager should contact social service agencies and agencies operating employment and training programs at the relocation site so that the recipient will know where to seek assistance upon arrival. (3) Relocation assistance may be provided to a FI caretaker recipient if he needs to move to provide care for an ill family member or if the family will receive assistance at the new location that is unavailable to them at their present location, such as free housing or child care. (4) The decision to relocate must be a voluntary decision by the recipient.