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SF 543 Senate Long Description

Modifying certain provisions under the Minnesota family investment program-statewide; eliminating the requirement for county agencies to count a certain amount of the value of public and assisted rental subsidies provided through the federal department of housing and urban development (HUD) as unearned income for eligibility purposes; replacing the requirement for counties to develop and implement an employment and training services component of MFIP-S designed to put participants on the most direct path to unsubsidized employment to a career path leading to long term self sufficiency; authorizing and providing for participants exit plans development, specifying certain duties of job counselors; requiring the commissioner of human services to examine the feasibility of forgiving child support arrears, to develop child support arrearage forgiveness policies and to explore the possibility of forwarding current child support to the custodial parent, requiring a report to the legislature by a certain date; transferring certain amounts of the federal TANF block grant to the commissioner to reduce job counselor case loads and to develop MFIP exit plans and to the child care block grant for the sliding fee child care program(ra)