Appendix E -
Personal Opportunities With Employment Responsibilities (POWER)
Chapter 1 POWER Work Activity Summary
Work Activities and Participation Rates:
A work activity may be allowable under the regulation, but may not be countable in the participation rate computation. A participant may be in an allowable work activity and the State will not be penalized for illegal use of the TANF Block Grant.
To be counted in the participation rate computation the family member must be participating in a countable work activity a minimum of thirty (30) hours per week. For the two-parent participation rate, both parents must be participating a minimum of thirty-five (35) hours per week in allowable work activities of which thirty (30) hours must be countable.
Work Activity Summary:
| Work Activity | When does the activity count? | |||
| All Families Rate | 2-Parent Rate | |||
| First 20 Hrs. | Hrs. Above 20 | First 30/50 Hrs. | Hrs. Above 30/50 | |
| Unsubsidized Employment | x | x | x | x |
| Subsidized Employment | x | x | x | x |
| Work Experience | x | x | x | x |
| OJT | x | x | x | x |
| Job Search and Job Readiness | x | x | x | x |
| Vocational Training Requiring Less Than 12 Months to Complete | x | x | x | x |
| Job Skills Training | no | x | no | x |
| High School/GED for Teen Parents | x | x | x | x |
| High School/GED for Child | no | no | no | no |
| High School/GED for Adults | no | x | no | x |
| Post Secondary Education/Long Term Vocational Training | no | no | no | no |
Effective 9/3/2008