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The Pay-After-Performance Work Experience program is work experience required for Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) families with employable adults where the adults have not found employment or have lost a job. Participants work to earn their TANF benefits.
The program is also called Work for Your Welfare, and Workfare. Currently Division of Social Services (DSS) operates the work-for-your-welfare program under contract with a work for your welfare services provider. The provider assumes responsibility for the assessment, placement and monitoring of all work-for-your-welfare participants in unsalaried work assignments. The work assignments are with public or nonprofit organizations. In return for their services, participants earn the amount of the benefit they are eligible to receive.
Families who were continuously on TANF prior to 01/01/2000 have 24 months before being required to enter into this program. Families reapplying on or after 01/01/2000 immediately enter this program.
The pay-after-performance work experience position is intended for employable adult participants who do not have unsubsidized employment of at least 20 hours per week. Participants work to earn TANF benefits. The number of hours of work experience required of the family is determined by dividing the amount of the TANF benefit by the minimum wage.
NOTE: Participants in single-parent households are only expected to work up to a maximum of 30 hours per week even if the result of dividing the TANF benefit amount by the minimum wage is more than 30 hours. See below for two-parent household requirements.
In addition, participants are required to conduct up to ten (10) hours of job search each week. Failure to comply with the job search requirements will result in an employment and training sanction being applied.
Two-parent households must participate in work for your welfare as soon as DSS determines the household eligible for benefits. In two-parent households, one parent must work at the maximum performance-hours level (35 hours per week), and the second parent must participate in employment-related activities as determined by DSS and the work-for-your-welfare contractor, unless the second parent is otherwise exempt (e.g., caring for a disabled child or is incapacitated). The second parent in the two-parent household must also participate in a TANF E&T component other than workfare.
If the families of two-parent households receive federally subsidized childcare, together they must participate in at least 55 hours per week of required activity. In this case, one parent will do work-for-your-welfare activity, and the second parent must participate in a sufficient number of hours of work-related activity with the contractor so that, when combined with the hours of the first parent, together they equal 55 hours.
If the one parent in the two parent household who is participating in work-for-your-welfare does not complete his/her required performance hours, the grant allowance for the entire family is reduced by the hours not worked times the minimum wage. The grant adjustment occurs regardless of whether the second parent completed his/her required hours of employment related activities.
DE TANF - Employment and Training - Education Possibilities
DE TANF - Employment and Training - Supportive Services
DE TANF - Sanctions for Non-cooperation
DE DSS - Application Procedures
DE DSS - Change Reporting Requirements
DSS Policy Manual (Sects. 3001.J., 3031 & 3031.1 )
DE TANF Employment and Training Overview
DE General Assistance Overview
DE Division of Social Services - Overview
DE Benefit Information System Overview
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