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May 10, 2013
Lansing, Mich. May 9, 2013- The Michigan Department of Health and Human Services is pleased to announce substantial improvement with work participation by its clients involved with the new state program known as PATH, Partnership. Accountability. Training and Hope.
For the current fiscal year, MDHHS and its Michigan Works! partners have realized a statewide work participation rate of 50 percent among clients receiving Family Independence Program (FIP) dollars, otherwise known as cash assistance.
That 50 percent rate was put in place in 2002 as a federal target for states to meet. This is the first time that Michigan's year-to-date rate for any fiscal year has been above 50 percent.
When states fail to either meet or exceed the federal target for work participation by cash welfare clients, they face millions of dollars in possible sanctions by the government. In 2010, Michigan's work participation rate among its cash assistance clients was just 22.8 percent.
However, at the close of March 2013, Michigan had reached 50 percent in client work participation for the fiscal year to date, an increase of 119 percent from fiscal 2010. PATH replaced the former work participation program known as JET on Jan. 1, 2013, and at its core features a more holistic approach to assessing client needs and skills, the 21-day application eligibility period (AEP). During this time, cash assistance clients who commit to and fully participate in the program receive a wide range of assessment from caseworkers and help toward self-sufficiency. Those services include, but are not limited to:
"We were convinced the changes planned for PATH would have a positive effect on our work participation rate that is so critical to meeting federal targets and avoiding sanctions." said Maura Corrigan, MDHHS director. "But on a larger scale we also knew the longer evaluation period would allow our caseworkers to more strongly connect with their clients and help overcome major barriers to employment-exactly what we are seeing in the early stages of PATH."
For more details on PATH and work participation, please review the full report.