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<section article="ghu" article_name="Human Services" number="5-308.1" title_number="5" title_name="Public Assistance" subtitle_number="3" subtitle_name="Family Investment Program">
  <level label="a">
    <text>The purpose of work experience is to improve the employability of individuals who cannot find unsubsidized full–time employment.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>The Department may refer an individual to work experience for work activity if:</text>
    <level label="1">
      <text>private sector employment is not available;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="2">
      <text>the maximum work experience placement for the individual does not exceed 90 days in a 3–year period;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="3">
      <text>the Department offers the individual at least three work activity options that include:</text>
      <level label="i">
        <text>subject to subsection (c) of this section, only one work experience option; and</text>
      </level>
      <level label="ii">
        <text>at least one option that is work activity or a program funded by the federal Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act;</text>
      </level>
    </level>
    <level label="4">
      <text>the individual chooses the work experience for work activity;</text>
    </level>
    <level label="5">
      <text>the Department informs the individual that the individual may subsequently change to different work activity; and</text>
    </level>
    <level label="6">
      <text>the work experience provides skills that match the individual’s personal, career, and family goals to support economic mobility.</text>
    </level>
  </level>
  <level label="c">
    <text>If the Department offers work experience as work activity, the Department may not offer community service as work activity.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="d">
    <text>If at any time the requirements of subsection (b) of this section are not met, an individual placed in work experience may request a transfer to different work activity.</text>
  </level>
</section>
