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YOUR RIGHTS
As a Welfare-to-Work participant, you have the following rights which will help you take part in Welfare-to-Work.
You have the right to the following:
Employment Services
• Receive direction and support from the county to help you improve your ability to get a job. This can possibly include on-the-job training
and job skills training or education.
• Receive a referral to places that offer personal counseling, mental health, substance abuse, or domestic abuse services, at no cost to
you, if you need them to help you participate.
Supportive Services
• Receive payment for child care, transportation, and work and training-related expenses if you need them to participate in or attend any
Welfare-to-Work appointment or activity. These are called supportive services. If you need them, but do not get them, you may have
good cause for not participating.
• Receive details of your supportive service arrangements in writing.
• Receive advance payment, if you need it to avoid using your own money, for approved supportive services.
Welfare-to-Work Plan
• Ask for a change or reassignment to another activity within 30 days from the beginning of your first training or education assignment
under your initial Welfare-to-Work plan.
• Change your mind about the activities assigned in your Welfare-to-Work plan. If you change your mind, you must tell your Welfare-to-
Work worker within three (3) working days after signing your Welfare-to-Work plan Activity Assignment form (WTW 2).
• Automatically get a neutral third party to assess your employment and or training needs if you disagree with the assessment or you and
the county cannot agree on a plan to meet your assessed employment needs.
• Ask for a different provider if you object to the religious character of any provider to which you have been assigned.
• Not to participate in any religious activity offered by a service provider. Participation in such an activity is voluntary.
Employment Problems
• Leave a job or not accept a job if the county decides you have a good reason.
Complaints
• Protest any county action you do not agree with by filing a formal grievance with the county or asking for a State hearing by calling
1-800-952-5253, or for the hearing or speech impaired who use TDD, call 1-800-952-8349.
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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES
As a Welfare-to-Work participant, you also have the following responsibilities to make sure Welfare-to-Work works for you.
You must:
• Accept a job if you get an offer, unless you have a good reason not to.
• If working, keep the job and not lower your earnings.
• Sign activity assignments which tell how you and the county will work together while you participate.
• Participate as described in your Welfare-to-Work plan unless you have a good reason.
• Choose and arrange for supportive services. The county will help you.
• Sign up for subsidized child care if you will need it. The county will tell you how.
• Ask your Welfare-to-Work worker if you have any questions about Welfare-to-Work.
• Tell your Welfare-to-Work worker of changes that may affect your participation.
• Tell your Welfare-to-Work worker right away of changes in your need for supportive services. This includes
changes in child care providers. If you do not tell the county in advance, the county may not be able to pay for
the services that change.
• Pay Welfare-to-Work back for any supportive services payments you got, but you did not need or you were not
eligible to get.
• Call or go to the county when they ask you to.
• Give proof of satisfactory progress in your assigned activity, if required by your county.
• Read (or have read or explained to you) the Welfare-to-Work Handbook and ask questions about any part of
the handbook you do not understand.
QUESTIONS?
The Welfare-to-Work Handbook gives you more information on your rights and responsibilities. If you have any questions,
be sure to check the Welfare-to-Work Handbook or call your Welfare-to-Work worker at the number shown below.
CERTIFICATION
I understand that the purpose of Welfare-to-Work is to help me prepare for work and find a job.
I have read (or had read or explained to me) and understand this Rights and Responsibilities form. I have received a
Welfare-to-Work Handbook. I know that I have certain rights and responsibilities as a participant in Welfare-to-Work. I
know that I must meet all my responsibilities as a Welfare-to-Work participant. If I fail to meet my responsibilities without
good reason, I know that there are certain penalties and that my cash aid may be affected.
7/5/2023
WELFARE-TO-WORK WORKER’S SIGNATURE: PHONE: DATE:
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
Participant Name:
ALEJANDRINA CORDOVA Initial Activity Assignment Amendment #
✔ Mandatory participant: I agree to do the checked activity or activities listed below. I understand that if I do not participate as required
in these activities, my cash aid will be lowered, unless the county decides I had a good reason to not do them. I understand that if I am
in a two-parent family, we can share the 35-hour participation requirement, and only my assigned hours are listed below.
Volunteer: I understand that I do not have to participate, but I agree to do the checked activity or activities listed below. I understand
that as a volunteer, my cash aid cannot be lowered for failing to do these activities. I understand if I stop doing these activities, I may
have to wait to participate in Welfare-to-Work, unless the county decides that I had a good reason not to do them. I understand that the
20-,30- or 35-hour per week rules do not apply to me.
Self-Initiated Program (SIP): My primary activity is an education or training program I was enrolled in before my appraisal. If I am a
mandatory participant, the number of hours I am required to participate in each week is: 20 30.
Mental health services for hours Other family stabilization activities for hours
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
ACTIVITY:
ACTIVITY:
The county will send me the location and schedule for my activity by .
Activity Date
I will go to on/by to get my location
Location Date Activity
and/or schedule.
I will give my Welfare-to-Work worker a copy of my
Activity
schedule by . I will tell my Welfare-to-Work worker if any changes are made and give my Welfare-to-
Date
Work worker a copy of the changes if required.
I understand that if I do not go to and/or make satisfactory progress in Voc/Ed Training (Educacional Vocacional) /
Activity
, as required, I may have to go to different activities. I understand that I must give
Activity
proof of satisfactory progress in these activities to my Welfare-to-Work worker by the date(s) listed below.
Activity: Voc/Ed Training (Educacional Vocacional) Date Proof is Due: 5to de cada mes
Activity: Date Proof is Due:
Activity: Date Proof is Due:
Activity: Date Proof is Due:
✔ Additional Comments:
Las horas de mas de 30 horas por semana son voluntarias. Las horas indicadas en la pagina 1 del plan son un promedio
de horas por semana para cumplir con los requisitos semanales. Debera manterne un progreso satisfactorio en su activida
de Educacion Vocacional asistiendo y manteniendo un promedio de 2.0 o superior. Favor de notificar de cambios.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
The county must give me supportive services (child care; transportation; and work, education and training related expenses)
if I need them to participate in my mandatory or voluntary Welfare-to-Work assignments and Welfare-to-Work rules allow for
them.
✔ My county worker has reviewed my need for Welfare-to-Work supportive services for each activity listed in my plan. I
understand that I do not have to do my assignment until the supportive services I need have been arranged.
✔ I understand that I must tell my Welfare-to-Work worker right away if my need for Welfare-to-Work supportive services
changes, or if I no longer need them. If I do not report the changes in advance, the county may not be able to
pay for them. I understand that if I stop participating in my Welfare-to-Workactivities, I will continue to receive child
care for the remainder of my child care authorization period or until my child care authorization is discontinued.
✔ I understand that if the county pays for supportive services that are more than what I needed to participate
in Welfare-to-Work, with the exception of child care and advance student payments, I will have to pay the county back.
✔ Transportation:
✔ Bus Pass Mileage Parking
p Other (toll fees, taxis, etc.):
p✔ I need advanced payment for transportation.
p I do not need the county to pay for transportation at this time, but I have the right to request transportation later.
(Initial and date)
3. 4.
✔ Diaper Payments (I will receive monthly diaper payments for each child under 36 months of age unless I
check the box below indicating I do not need diaper payments.)
✔ I do not need diaper payments at this time, but I have the right to request diaper payments later.
✔ In order to successfully participate in the assigned activities I need the following accommodations (help):
Please specify - for example: special services because of a disability (reading me notices, large print,
special supplies, etc.).
1. N/A 2.
3. 4.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA - HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES AGENCY CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES
PARTICIPANT’S CERTIFICATION
✔ I understand that my Welfare-to-Work Plan includes this form, the Welfare-to-Work Plan - Rights and Responsibilities,
and the Welfare-to-Work Handbook. I understand that Welfare-to-Work activities and services, and my rights and
responsibilities as a Welfare-to-Work participant, are explained to me on these forms.
✔ I understand that if I tell my county worker that I do not agree with my assessment or the county and I cannot agree on
a plan, the worker must refer me to a neutral third party for a new assessment of my employment or Welfare-to-Work
activity needs.
✔ I understand that I can ask the county at any time for domestic abuse services, including a waiver of certain program
requirements.
✔ I understand that I can ask the county at any time for mental health, substance abuse, or learning disability services.
If this is my first assignment under a Welfare-to-Work plan, I understand that I have 30 calendar days from the date of
my initial Welfare-to-Work Plan to ask for a change or reassignment to another activity. This 30-day grace period is
available only once during my time getting CalWORKs cash aid. If the county agrees to the change, I know I will have
to sign a new Activity Assignment.
✔ I have three (3) working days to think about the terms of this Activity Assignment after I sign it. I understand if I want
to change the terms of this Welfare-to-Work Plan, I must tell my Welfare-to-Work worker by 7/10/2023 .
If I do not tell my Welfare-to-Work worker by then, this Activity Assignment is final. Date
✔ I have read (or had read to me) and understand this Activity Assignment, and have received a copy. If I do not meet
my responsibilities without a good reason, I know that there are penalties that can include having my cash aid
lowered and supportive services may be stopped.
✔ I understand that I can ask for a different service provider if I object to the religious character of any provider to which
I have been assigned.
✔ I understand that I can say no to any religious activity offered by a service provider, and that any participation in any
religious activity offered by a service provider is voluntary.
✔ I understand if I do not agree with any county action regarding my Welfare-to-Work participation, I can file a formal
grievance with the county or I can ask for a State hearing by calling, toll-free, 1-800-952-5253. If the county is
proposing to lower or stop my aid, my aid will not be lowered or stopped if I file a formal grievance.
✔ I understand that I can get free legal help with Welfare-to-Work problems from the local legal or welfare rights office,
by calling (877) 534-2524 .
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State of California – Health and Human Services Agency California Department of Social Services
NOTICE: You may be eligible for CalWORKs Stage One Child Care
The county pays for child care for children under age 13, and for children up to age 21 with
disabilities.
Even if you don’t need child care now, you can ask for child care at any time.
TWO-PARENT FAMILIES
In two-parent families, if one parent is able and available to care for the child(ren), the county will
not pay for child care. A parent is considered available to provide care unless they are working (or
sleeping after working), doing a county-approved WTW activity, or have a condition verified by a
doctor, that prevents them from caring for the child(ren).
PART A: VOLUNTARY USE OF FINANCIAL AID FUNDS FOR SUPPORTIVE SERVICES THAT CAN BE PAID FOR BY
WTW.
NO. I do not want to use my financial aid to pay for supportive services.
YES. I voluntary agree to use my financial aid to pay for supportive services, as follows:
Child Care: $ __________per __________beginning __________and ending __________
Transportation: $ __________per __________beginning __________and ending __________
Ancillary: $ __________per __________beginning __________and ending __________
Counseling: $ __________per __________beginning __________and ending __________
I CERTIFY THAT I UNDERSTAND THIS FORM AND THAT THE ABOVE STATEMENT IS TRUE AND CORRECT.
Participant’s Signature: _________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________
I CERTIFY THAT I INFORMED THE PARTICIPANT THAT USE OF FINANCIAL AID TO PAY FOR SUPPORTIVE SERVICES
THAT CAN BE PAID FOR BY WTW IS VOLUNTARY AND I HAVE PROVIDED A COPY OF THE COMPLETED FORM TO
THE PARTICIPANT.
ECM Signature: _______________________________________________________________ Date: ___________________
STOP. I no longer want to use my student financial aid to pay for supportive services.
The county received Part B on __________________________. You will get a notice telling you what supportive services the
county can pay for. You will also receive a copy of this form when it is completed.
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CalWORKs Status: _____________________
45 TO COMPLETE CERTIFICATION IN TEACHING AND FIND FULL TIME
Remaining CW Months: _________________
EMPLOYMENT AS A TEACHER
Remaining WTW Months: _______________
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ETA Contact: __________________________
Plan
Resources Where? Who can help?
Do I will…
1.
Plan When? Possible Roadblock Idea for Detour
ORIENTATION
Elaborate on the HSP and Family Stabilization program benefits and eligibility requirements
Help to cover current rent and utility expenses
Past due rent and utility assistance
Securing permanent housing:
• Security deposit, first/last month of rent, help with past eviction expenses (overdue rent at previous
address, legal fees, etc.), extended housing assistance