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35 to avoid duplication of workforce services, improve employer access to skilled workers, exchange best practices, and collaborate on funding opportunities.

In addition to the work activities and services listed above, W-2 participants also benefit from the services provided to employers thought the BSTs.

Penalties/Payment Reductions CSJ and W-2 T participants must participate in all assigned work training activities or education and training activities outlined in the EP. Payments for CSJ and W-2 T participants who fail to participate in assigned activities are reduced for hours missed without good cause. To encourage parents to engage in work activities, the W-2 program requires parents to notify the W-2 agency of the reason for the parent missing any assigned W-2 activity. The W-2 agency determines if a parent’s reason for missing an assigned activity meets a W-2 good cause reason based on good cause policy. If the parent misses an assigned activity without good cause, the W-2 agency applies an hourly payment reduction for each instance. (See W-2 Manual Chapter 11.)

Refusal to Participate A W-2 participant assigned to a W-2 employment position (CSJ, W-2 T, or TEMP position) may become ineligible for any facet of W-2 for three (3) months if, without good cause as determined by the Department, the W-2 participant fails to appear for an interview with a prospective employer (including a sponsor of work experience or subsidized employment) or for an assigned work activity, voluntarily leaves employment or training activities or a work- experience site without good cause, is discharged from employment or training or a work- experience site for cause, or demonstrates through other behaviors or actions defined by the Department through administrative rule that he or she refuses to participate. Additionally, a W-2 participant may become ineligible if residing with the other parent of a child and receiving child care assistance, if the other parent is neither disabled nor caring for a severely disabled child and the other parent refuses to work in subsidized or unsubsidized employment or other work- experience, job-training, or community-service activities prescribed by the Department.

Intentional Program Violations The penalties for intentional program violations (IPVs) help ensure parents provide accurate information about their work activities to W-2 agencies.

Wis. Stat. § 49.001(3m) defines an intentional program violation as: “… intentionally making a false or misleading statement, intentionally misrepresenting or withholding facts, or intentionally committing any act that constitutes a violation of state or federal law for the purpose of using, presenting, transferring, acquiring, receiving, possessing, or trafficking benefits under this chapter.”

An individual who applies for or receives assistance payments under W-2, Wisconsin Shares Child Care, EA, and/or JALs and commits an intentional program violation for the purpose of establishing eligibility, maintaining eligibility, or increasing assistance payments, will be denied assistance as follows: • For six months for the first intentional program violation; • For one year for the second intentional program violation; and • Permanently for the third intentional program violation.