(a) All Arkansas Work Pays Program participants may be eligible for extended supportive services such as:
- (1) Childcare;
- (2) Transitional Medicaid or ARKids First;
- (3) Mentoring;
- (4) Financial credit counseling;
- (5) Individual development accounts; and
- (6) Any job retention services offered by the Department of Human Services.
(b) Arkansas Work Pays Program participants whose transitional employment assistance (TEA) cases closed due to employment may be eligible for the following supportive services within twelve (12) months of TEA closure:
(1)
- (A) Vehicle down payment assistance.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-203;
(2)
- (A) Vehicle repair.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-207;
(3)
- (A) Vehicle insurance.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-206;
(4)
- (A) Vehicle sales tax.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-204;
(5)
- (A) Vehicle tags.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-205; and
(6)
- (A) ESS job retention.
- (B) See 20 CAR § 503-218.
- (C) Note.
(i) Extended supportive services (ESS) job retention supportive services are the same activity-related expenses listed in 20 CAR § 503-208.
- (ii) In the Arkansas Work Pays Program, these services are used to help participants retain their current jobs.