1E Relating to human services; establishing the work participation rate enhancement program (WORK PREP) under the Minnesota family investment program as the state TANF (temporary assistance for needy families) program to serve families failing to make significant progress within MFIP due to certain barriers to employment and to stabilize and improve the lives of families at risk of long term welfare dependency; specifying certain eligibility requirements for MFIP or diversionary work program participants; requiring participation in family stabilization services by all caregivers; requiring county agencies to provide the services through a case management model, requiring the assignment of case managers to participating families within a certain number of days after receipt of MFIP financial assistance; requiring case managers to recommend and county agencies to establish and modify as necessary family stabilization plans, specifying certain plan content and completion requirements, requiring modification under certain conditions; specifying certain participant family stabilization plan cooperation and compliance requirements, providing for the imposition of sanctions for failure to comply; providing for a work participation bonus for participants exiting DWP or terminating MFIP cash assistance with earnings, specifying certain eligibility requirements; providing for use of the MFIP consolidated fund to provide services to work program participants and increasing the allocation percentage to counties and tribes, additional allocations to be determined by the commissioner based on available funds; expanding child care assistance eligibility to program participants; requiring separate reporting by the commissioner of human services of MFIP expenditures under the program; providing for initial assessment of work program participants for referral purposes
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