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20 to provide in-home safety services to children and families. DMCPS’s goal is to keep families intact whenever possible by employing strategies and services that control for child safety, stabilize the family, and help the family develop links to community supports. Families receive individualized services tailored to their specific situation and needs as determined by an assessment social worker and an intensive in-home safety services manager. There are no financial eligibility requirements for a family to receive these services. Therefore, Wisconsin uses 100 percent TANF funds for this program (per federal requirements relating to services for TANF Purpose 4). In 2011 Wisconsin entered into a Child Welfare Program Improvement Plan in which it committed to expanding in-home safety services outside Milwaukee County to reduce the need for out-of-home placements. In 2021, the program served 38 counties and five Tribes. This program is included under Purpose 4. The goal of the program is to keep families intact whenever possible by employing strategies and services controlling for child safety, family stabilization, and helping the family develop links to community supports which fulfills the purpose of forming and maintaining families.

Kinship Care DCF provides allocations to counties and tribes to manage the Kinship Care program. The program provides monthly payments to relatives who care for minor relative children whom CPS has determined are unsafe residing with their biological parents. Starting in SFY 2025, the monthly rate increased from $300 to $375. Financial eligibility: participants meet the definition of “needy” and children removed from parental homes are considered to have no financial resources. This fulfills Purpose 1, as it assists needy families so children can stay in their homes. (See W-2 Manual Chapter 19.)

SSI Caretaker Supplement DHS, which administers the state’s SSI activities, also administers the SSI Caretaker Supplement (CTS) program. DHS provides an additional monthly payment to help with the support of SSI recipients’ dependent children. This fulfills Purpose 1, as it assists needy families so children can stay in their homes. The financial eligibility for it is only having $2,000 in countable income for an individual and $3,000 for a married couple. (See W-2 Manual Chapter 19.)

Transform Milwaukee Jobs Program The Transform Milwaukee Jobs (TMJ) program serves low-income adults in Milwaukee County. It is a subsidized-employment program under which employers are reimbursed, or partially reimbursed, for wages and benefits for a maximum of 1,040 hours worked per participant. These subsidized job opportunities provide work experience, and employers are encouraged to hire participants into permanent jobs.

Eligible individuals must: 1. be at least age eighteen (18), or if over age twenty-four (24), must be a biological or adoptive parent or primary caregiver of a child under age eighteen (18); 2. not be participating in a W-2 paid placement; 3. have an annual household income below 150 percent of the federal poverty limit; 4. have been unemployed for at least four weeks; and 5. be ineligible to receive unemployment insurance benefits.