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NON-EDUCATION, NON-WORK COMPONENT: WORKFARE Description of the component. Provide a summary of the activities and services. Workfare provides participants the opportunity to learn new job skills and establish work references. The primary goal of workfare is to improve employability and encourage individuals to move into regular employment while returning something of value to the community. Workfare assignments may not replace or prevent regular employment and must provide the same benefits and working conditions provided to regular employees performing comparable work for comparable hours. Workfare sites and assignments vary by vendor. Each vendor establishes relationships with various employers throughout their community and formalize the relationship with a written agreement to be an FSET Workfare site. FSET participants are provided with a list of available Workfare sites and assignments to a specific Workfare site are mutually agreed upon in the participant’s Employment Plan. Indicate the Target Population this component will serve. Select all that apply. ABAWDs Homeless Returning citizens (aka: ex-offenders) Single parents Students Those that reside in rural areas Underemployed Veterans Describe the criteria for participation. Include the skills, knowledge, or experience necessary for participation in the component. For example, literacy or numeracy levels, recent labor market attachment, computer literacy, etc. The skills and knowledge will vary by workfare site. For example, if a workfare site at a call center is available to participants, prior to assigning a FSET participant to the call center workfare site, the FSET case manager will evaluate whether the participant has the interpersonal skills, sufficient computer literacy, as well as any other skills listed by the workfare site. Will this component be offered statewide? Yes No 1/29/26, 10:30 AM State Plan WI FY26 - Amendment 1 https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-wify26stateplan//index.html 67/230