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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 18

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 133 Chapter 18 WV WORKS Activities/Requirements

Care must be made to correctly identify 18-month or two-year vocational programs being provided by colleges and community colleges and that participants in those programs are enrolled in the Vocational Educational Training. Some undergraduate courses require that students be placed in an unpaid work environment. Such undergraduate placements may be used to meet the federal work requirement. These placements include, but are not limited to: student teaching, internships, clinical work assignments and unpaid work experience. The portion including actual work must be counted as OJT if paid, or Work Experience if unpaid. Participants in all other four-year degree programs must be enrolled in the College component and no additional hours are assigned to the participant as long as they are enrolled full-time and continue to make satisfactory progress. Participants in educational activities must be making satisfactory progress as determined by the institution in which they are enrolled. Once the participant has made unsatisfactory progress as defined by the institution, an educational activity may no longer be counted as the work activity until the participant regains satisfactory progress. The Case Manager should use discretion in activity placement. Hours of participation for college are assigned according to the number of hours they attend class, plus one hour of study time per class hour. School holidays that are not federal holidays must be counted as one of the excused absences. Summer breaks and semester breaks must not be counted toward participation. All other absences must meet the excused absence policy of no more than 16 hours per month and not more than 80 hours per 12-month period.

NOTE: See Section 18.16.1 regarding counting up to 12 months of college as Vocational Educational Training. NOTE: Participants enrolled and attending college part-time must be enrolled in Job Training when the educational program meets the requirements of Section 18.18.1. NOTE: Participation in College Work Study is employment.