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Wisconsin Department of Children and Families Wisconsin Works (W-2) Manual |
A W-2 participant who receives transportation assistance is subject to all TANF requirements pertaining to the 60-month federal lifetime limit and other nonfinancial requirements. (See 2.2.1)
TANF assistance includes payments, vouchers, and other forms of benefits designed to meet a family’s ongoing needs (food, clothing, shelter, utilities, household goods, personal care items, and general incidental expenses).
W-2 participants in an unpaid, case management only, placement will not use a month toward the 48-month state lifetime limit and 60-month federal lifetime limit for receipt of transportation assistance if any of the following apply:
· They are employed for at least one hour per month;
· They are engaged in job search/readiness activities requiring child care;
· The transportation is not provided for longer than four months; or,
· The transportation services are provided via a group transportation or transportation capacity building project (e.g. someone who rides a TANF funded expanded bus route is not receiving assistance because the service does not have a direct monetary value to the individual family).
Therefore, several factors determine whether issuing transportation assistance to a participant in a case management only placement will use a month toward the 48-month state lifetime limit and 60-month federal lifetime limit. When transportation assistance will use a federal and state month of assistance, the FEP must advise the participant of the potential impact and weigh the cost of using months of lifetime eligibility against the benefit of the service before assistance is given.
W-2 participants in CSJ, pro-rated CSJ, W-2 T, and some CMC placements (see 2.10.8) will not use a month toward the 60-month federal lifetime limit and 48-month state lifetime limit for transportation assistance because the participant will use a federal month due to the receipt of TANF cash assistance.
History: Release 21-09; Release 13-03.