![]() ![]() If you are single with no children under age 6, you’ll always meet your requirement if at least 20 of your 30 hours of Welfare-to-Work activities are core activities. If you are single with at least one child under age 6, you'll always meet your requirement if at least 15 of your 20 hours of Welfare-to-Work activities are core activities. Which Type of Activities You Need to Performĭuring your 48 months on CalWORKs, you can always meet your Welfare-to-Work requirement if you do mostly core activities. Vocational education and training beyond the 12-month lifetime totalĮach county has its own list of acceptable core and non-core activities, so the rules in your county may be a bit different from the activities listed here. Mental health, substance abuse, or domestic violence services (beyond assigned time limits) Satisfactory attendance in a secondary school or GED (high school equivalency) program. Job skills training aimed at getting a job Non-core activities - These may not be as directly linked to getting a job. Providing child care for someone in the CalWORKs community service program. Mental health, substance abuse, or domestic violence services (possibly with assigned time limits) ![]() Vocational education and training (12-month lifetime total) In some months you have to do mostly “core” activities in order to meet your Welfare-to-Work requirements, while in other months you can meet your requirements by doing “non-core” activities.Ĭore activities - These job-related activities can include things like: There are 2 types of Welfare-to-Work activities. If a parent is exempt, the other parent needs to do 30 hours per week. The exact number of hours depends on your situation.ģ0 hours per week if there are no children under age 6Ģ0 hours per week if there is at least one child under 6Ī couple must do 35 hours per week (adding their hours together), unless one parent is exempt. The Hourly Requirementĭuring those 48 months, you must spend a minimum number of hours each week doing Welfare-to-Work activities, unless you are exempt. If you need CalWORKs again 5 years later and only get CalWORKs for 10 months, you would still have 35 months remaining. Those months do not have to be consecutive (in a row) if you are on CalWORKs for the first time and only receive benefits for 3 months, you have 45 months remaining during which you can get benefits over the rest of your life. You can be on CalWORKs for up to 48 months during your lifetime. If you don’t, you may stop getting the monthly cash benefit. If you are not exempt from the Welfare-to-Work rules, you have to do various things to keep getting CalWORKs benefits. Even though the parent keeps getting CalWORKs, those months won’t count as part of the 48-month lifetime limit. During this exemption, which is a year longer than is usually allowed for a baby, that parent won’t have to do Welfare-to-Work activities. Note: If you don't qualify for an exemption, you might get approved for a "good cause" that makes you unable to do Welfare-to-Work, like homelessness, not being able to get child care, your car broke down (no transportation), or a child is sick and has to stay home from school.Ī parent of a child 0 – 23 months old can have an exemption one time during the parent’s lifetime. If you are exempt, you can still volunteer to get the help offered through the Welfare-to-Work program. Pregnant and medically unable to do Welfare-to-Work activities You can get an exemption if you are:Ĭaring for a relative’s child who is a ward of the state or is in danger of being placed in foster care, and who requires care that prevents you from workingĪt home because you are caring for a sick or injured household member If you are exempt, you won’t have to do the Welfare-to-Work activities described on this page. People who don’t have to do Welfare-to-WorkĬalWORKs knows that some people can’t work, and gives them exemptions from Welfare-to-Work requirements. We’ll describe how this works below, but first let’s look at the people who don’t have to meet these Welfare-to-Work requirements. How many hours of these activities you have to do each week to keep getting CalWORKs depends on the age of your children and whether you have a disability. Welfare-to-Work can include different types of activities. This part of CalWORKs is called Welfare-to-Work. ![]() CalWORKs helps you do this, but you must take steps to find work. One of the benefits CalWORKs provides is help getting a job, so in the future you can support your family. ![]()
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