Social/Support Services: Child care provided for AFDC recipients and recipients who leave AFDC through earnings disregards, direct services, provider contracts, vouchers, cash payments, or earnings disregards. Eligible recipients are entitled to 12 months of transitional care.
Transitional Medicaid provided for 12 months for eligible recipients who leave AFDC for employment.
Extended case management is a key component of PESD at all sites. Case managers can serve clients for up to 2 years to help them stay employed or become re-employed, regardless of AFDC status (six months in Riverside). Case management includes ongoing monitoring, support, counseling, and advice; mediating with agencies to resolve eligibility for financial benefits; helping find jobs; and providing financial support to cover temporary expenses.
All programs allowed for increases in the amounts of payments that can be made to cover expenses associated with employment, job search, and emergencies that could affect employment. In all sites, case managers were given greater latitude in determining what kinds of expenses could be paid for participants.