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21 under the 'contact us' link. Each report will be reviewed and addressed on an individual case basis.

Y Funds Other supportive services may be provided to families participating in the program. This includes supplemental payments given directly to a parent to help reimburse work related expenses.

Child Care Child Care may be provided to families participating in the Family Employment Program based on an integrated child care program. This child care program is administered based on the philosophy that all parents are responsible for the choices they make for themselves and their children. Child care assistance is available to families participating in the FEP to support their participation in approved work activities and to transition families off such assistance. Child care payments will be sufficient to ensure equal access for eligible children to comparable child care services in the state that are provided to children whose parents are not eligible to receive assistance under any other federal or state child care assistance programs.

Time Limit The Family Employment Program began applying a 36-month lifetime limit January 1, 1997 to all families receiving cash assistance from the program with the following three exceptions:

● Specified relative families where the specified relative is not included in the Family Employment Program cash assistance payment. ● Families where all parents residing in the home are SSI participants. ● Adult(s) living on or near a reservation where the unemployment rate is equal to or greater than 50%.

A month that a parent received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families in another state will count toward the family's 36-month Family Employment Program time limit unless it falls under one of the exceptions mentioned above.

Until a national data system is developed that tracks months of assistance in another state, to determine the months of assistance in another state, all applicants will be asked what states they have previously resided in. Based on the information provided by the parent, and any other information that may become available, a contact with those states will be made to determine if the applicant received Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.

Extensions On a month-to-month basis, the state may continue to provide cash assistance to a family who has reached its 36-month time limit if they meet a verifiable extension reason.

The state may extend 20% of the average monthly number of families receiving Family Employment Program cash assistance beyond the 60-month time limit in the previous federal fiscal year. Those within the 20% who are extended beyond the time limit will still