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MFIP Employment Services Manual

MFIP Employment Services Manual


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19.54 Dual Sanctions

ISSUE DATE: 09/2020

Participants can be simultaneously sanctioned for not complying with child support and MFIP requirements.

Scenario

The Amount of the Reduction

Sanction Count

Participant receives in the same month both:

  • · A first occurrence of an MFIP employment services or financial orientation sanction.
  • · A first occurrence of a child support sanction.
  • 30% which may include vendoring. See 19.15 (Vendoring Benefits).

    One occurrence.

    A participant is already in sanction and another type is imposed in the same month.

    30% which may include vendoring. See 19.15 (Vendoring Benefits).

  • · The reduction is NOT doubled.
  • The month is one occurrence.

  • · After that each month in sanction, even months of dual sanctions, is considered one new occurrence.
  • To resolve the dual sanctions, the participant works with:

  • · The employment counselor to resolve the employment services sanction.
  • · The eligibility worker or child support worker to resolve the other sanctions.
  • Each sanction is lifted separately:

    The vendoring of rent (and utilities if applicable) is lifted only after the participant has been in compliance with both employment services and child support for 6 months. See 19.15 (Vendoring Benefits).

    Child Support Sanction

    Employment Services or Financial Orientation Sanction

    Status of Sanction

    Cured.

    Not cured.

    The 30% MFIP sanction and vendoring remains in place. See 19.15 (Vendoring Benefits).

    Not Cured.

    Cured.

    The 30% child support sanction and the vendoring remains until the month following compliance with child support. See 19.15 (Vendoring Benefits).

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