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1000.13 PROGRAM COMPONENTS - CORE WORK ACTIVITIES

VIEW program components include the following core work activities – job search, job readiness, unsubsidized employment, subsidized employment (FEP), the community work experience program (CWEP), the public service program (PSP), on-the-job training (OJT), and vocational education and training. All program components must be monitored monthly for attendance of scheduled hours. In addition, education and training activities must be monitored for satisfactory progress at periodic intervals.

A. JOB SEARCH

Job Search is a structured activity carried out over a defined time period during which the participant must spend a specified number of hours in job search activities. Job search and job readiness may be assigned as appropriate and recorded in the ESP module in VaCMS, but the combined hours of job search and job readiness assignments will count toward the work participation rate for no more than 180 hours in a 12-month period. Hours assigned to job search/job readiness can be counted toward the work participation rate for four consecutive weeks. Additional hours of job search/job readiness may be assigned, but no hours will be counted toward participation unless there has been an intervening time period of at least one week after each 4 consecutive week assignment.

For federal reporting purposes, when a participant successfully completes a 4-week job search and is counted in the participation rate for that month, 120 hours of the total 180 hours available for job search/job readiness in a 12-month period are considered to have been used. The client also has used up 4 consecutive weeks of job search and cannot be assigned again until at least one week has passed. After that time, assignments to additional hours/weeks of job readiness and/or job search can be made in conjunction with other program activities in order to meet both the core work activity and the 35 hour overall participation requirement, but no more than the remaining 60 hours can be counted toward participation in the 12-month period.

Assignments to hours of job search/job readiness beyond those associated with the initial job search should be made in conjunction with other program activities so that both the core work activity requirement and the 35 hour overall participation requirement are met.

Note: Federal requirements limit countable hours of job search/job readiness for a single parent with a child under age 6 to 120 hours in a 12-month period. A successful 4-week job search will use up 80 of the total 120 hours available in the 12-month period as well as 4 consecutive weeks of job search/job readiness. No more than the remaining 40 hours can be counted toward participation through the end of the 12-month period.

1. Overview

a. A maximum of 35 hours can be assigned each week.

b. The number of hours for participant job search required must be determined on an individual basis. The number of required hours set on an individual basis should be determined based upon criteria such as other work or training activities in which the participant is involved, barriers such as language or disability of the participant or family household member, other barriers including employment conditions within the locality, and availability of transportation or child care.

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