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Effective date: October 10, 2018 - April 11, 2019
DWD-DET categorizes supportive services as either:
Note: Costs for program-funded supportive services must be reasonable.
Note: In ASSET, information and referral supportive services are entered as a Referral service under "Basic Career – Self/Informational."
Supportive services may include, but are not limited to, the following:1
See the Supportive Services - Examples and Resource Guide for more information.
Reasonable Cost
Effective date: October 10, 2018
Costs are considered reasonable if they are of a nature and amount that would be incurred by a prudent person under the circumstances prevailing at the time the decision was made to incur the costs. The question of reasonableness is particularly important when the non-federal entity is predominantly federally-funded. In determining reasonableness of a given cost, consideration must be given to:
Public Assistance
Effective date: August 20, 2018
Revised date: September 1, 2020
"Public Assistance" means federal, state, or local government cash payments where eligibility is determined by a needs or income test.
As WIOA does not define "cash payments," DWD-DET used definitions provided by the U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services to define "cash payments" as cash or a cash equivalent, such as a debit card or check, that can be spent however the recipient choses, and is not restricted to a specific purpose like groceries or childcare.
U.S. Census Bureau (https://www2.census.gov/library/publications/2013/acs/acsbr11-12.pdf); U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (https://www.uscis.gov/policy-manual/volume-8-part-g-chapter-10)