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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 18

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 136 Chapter 18 WV WORKS Activities/Requirements

18.18 NON-CORE WORK ACTIVITIES Job Skills Training Directly Related to Employment, Education Directly related to Employment and Satisfactory Attendance at Secondary School or High School Equivalency Program are allowable work activities in which participation hours are allowed as long as the minimum core hours of participation are met in one or more of the nine core activities. The following policies apply to all three work activities described below: • For distance learning, countable participation hours only include classes which allow for monitoring of the participant while logged in and summarize what is achieved during the time period engaged. • One hour of unsupervised homework time must be counted as participation hours for each hour of class time under any of the three activities listed below. Supervised homework may count if the hours of participation can be documented. • The total number of homework hours credited towards participation must be documented in Work Programs comments and must be based on the number of homework hours required or advised by the educational program. 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.

This activity is defined as education and training for job skills required by an employer to provide an individual with the opportunity to obtain employment or to advance or adapt to the changing demands of the workplace. Job skills training can include customized training to meet the needs of a specific employer or general training that prepares an individual for employment. This NOTE: If the participant is under the age of 20 and does not have a high school diploma or its equivalent, the requirement to participate in educational activities must be included in the Self-Sufficiency Plan (SSP). The three activities listed below, although they do not meet the federal definition of Core Work Activities, are acceptable full-time activities for WV WORKS participants under State Law. See Section 18.9.1.C.2, regarding full-time attendance and satisfactory progress requirements.