1E Relating to human services

ARTICLE 1 - SELF-SUFFICIENTY PROVISIONS

Establishing family stabilization services under the Minnesota family investment program (MFIP) 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 (DWP) participants; prohibiting the commissioner of human services from moving programs or activities funded with MFIP or temporary assistance for needy families (TANF) funds to other funding sources without legislative approval; 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, requiring subsequent assessments, 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, determining holiday hour calculation; specifying certain eligibility requirements; providing for use of the MFIP consolidated fund to provide services to work program participants, extending MFIP allowable expenditures to work program participants and expanding the MFIP county and tribal biennial service agreements to the work program; providing county and tribal funding and an incentive for the work program; repealing ineligibility for state funded programs for legal noncitizens ineligible for federally funded cash or food benefits and the MFIP consolidated fund performance base funds; preventing counties from being penalized for failures with respect to TANF grants; increasing county eligibility for certain TANF grants

ARTICLE 2 - SUPPORTING WORK FOR LOW-INCOME FAMILIES

Requiring MFIP appropriations to be allocated to counties based on certain criteria, requiring paid transitional work experience and other supported employment to provide a continuum of employment assistance, specifying county eligibility; appropriating money to the Minnesota office of higher education for work study grants, car loans and car repairs, the MFIP integrated services project and MFIP supported work
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