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MFIP Employment Services Manual

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23.48 Local Extension Request

ISSUE DATE: 09/2020

Counties may request a new category for extensions for participants who have reached the 60-month time limit.

  • · The county should submit the request to the Minnesota Department of Human Services.
  • · The Department may grant an extension for a category of participants that are not otherwise extended under state statute.
  • · The new category of participants must be consistent with the existing extension policy in which an extension is provided to participants whose MFIP requirements conflict with other statutory requirements or obligations.


    • The Department must confer with the legislature.

  • · By January 15th of each year, the commissioner must report to the chairs and ranking minority members of the senate and house of representatives committees having jurisdiction over health and human services any county-requested extensions that were granted during the previous calendar year.
  • · The legislature must act in order for the extensions to continue.
  • · If the legislature fails to act by the end of the legislative session in which the extensions were reported, the county-requested extensions would expire on June 30th of that year.

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