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Transitional employment payments. Receiving the Earned Income Tax Credit, Work Opportunity Tax Credit, or other work-related benefits. o Follow-along job retention and re-employment services. e Achieve TANF participation requirements contained in section 407 with all families.

Many governmental and private sector organizations help shape and remain involved in the current TANF welfare reform plan. Examples include:

e Cooperative Extension Service agents.

e WIOA funded career learning centers.

e The Department of Labor and Regulation Local Offices.

e Tribal JOBS Welfare-to-Work programs.

e Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) and Indian Health Services (IHS).

e Community Action Programs.

e Head Start Programs.

e The Department of Education and local school districts.

e The Department of Health.

e The Department of Human Services; and

e The Social Security Administration.

The TANF program ensures accountability for measuring the outcomes and performance with these steps:

e Automated client information tracking system and associated reports.

e Internal management review process; and

e On-site local office reviews.

NEEDY FAMILIES

The TANF program assists low-income South Dakota families with a dependent child or children under the age of 18, or under the age of 19 and a full-time student in a secondary school, who have been deprived of parental support and care due to the continued absence, incapacity, or death of at least one parent.

There must be a specific degree of relationship between a child and a parent or relative in order to be eligible for assistance. Acceptable degrees of relationship are as follows:

1. Father, mother, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew or niece, including those of half-blood; relatives of the preceding generation denoted by the prefixes of grand, great, or great-great; first cousin once removed; and great-great-great grandparent.

2. Aperson who achieves the degree of relationship specified in (1) by the process of legal adoption.

3. Spouses of any of the relatives specified in (1) or (2) even though the marriage is terminated by death or divorce; and,