10.6.2  Protective and Vendor Payments

If mismanagement of funds is a threat to the health and safety of a W-2Wisconsin Works participant’s child as determined by the FEPFinancial and Employment Planner, all or part of the CSJCommunity Service Job or W-2 TW-2 Transition payment may be a protective payment or Vendor Payment Payment made on behalf of the household by a third party to another source.  Other options would be making part of the CSJ or W-2 T payment a direct payment and part a protective payment, vendor payment, or both.  The agency must investigate reports of mismanagement before initiating protective or vendor payments.

The W-2 agency must document in the case record the reason for the authorization of protective or vendor payments and must show the name of the eligible participant, the name of the protective or vendor payee, and the amount and form of payment authorized.

Participants may voluntarily choose to receive all or part of the CSJ or W-2 T payment as a protective payment or Vendor Payment, without being subject to an investigation by a FEP into the participant’s use of funds.

History: Release 22-07.