New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 90 - WORK FIRST NEW JERSEY PROGRAM › Subchapter 15 - DEFINITIONS › Section 10:90-15.1 - Definitions

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
The following words and terms, used within this chapter,
				  shall have the following meanings unless the context clearly indicates
				  otherwise:
"Active participation" means participation in a Department of
				  Health and Senior Services' licensed or approved residential or in-patient or
				  out-patient substance abuse treatment program and that the WFNJ
				  applicant/recipient shall cooperate with the program's recommended treatment
				  plan.
"Adjusted allowance" means the balance remaining as a result
				  of subtracting the assistance unit's total income from the appropriate public
				  assistance allowance amount for that assistance unit.
"Adjusted gross income" means, when self-employed, the net
				  income as determined by subtracting the cost of producing the income from total
				  gross earnings.
"Adverse action" means any action by the county or municipal
				  agency resulting in denial of an application for assistance, suspension,
				  reduction or termination of assistance. The term is also applicable to
				  decisions pertaining to protective and restricted payments and denial of
				  request for special payments.
"Allowance" means the amount of money recognized for a
				  specific purpose.
"Alternative Work Experience Program (AWEP)" means work and
				  training only with a public, private nonprofit or private charitable employer
				  that provides a recipient with the experience necessary to adjust to, and learn
				  how to function in, an employment setting and the opportunity to combine that
				  experience with education and job training.
"Appeal" means the process of exercising the right to
				  challenge a decision or action of the administering entity and to have such
				  decision or action reviewed by an impartial agency.
"Applicant" means a person who makes a written request for
				  benefits provided by the WFNJ Program. An applicant can be an individual,
				  couple without dependent children, natural or adoptive parent(s),
				  parent-person(s), parent-minor, or legal guardian acting on behalf of the
				  assistance unit.
"Application" means a written request for public assistance
				  made by an applicant or legal guardian acting on behalf of the assistance
				  unit.
"Application process" means the required actions necessary to
				  make an official determination of the disposition of the application for
				  benefits.
"Approved residential substance abuse treatment program
				  (RSATP)" means a residential substance abuse treatment program; drug treatment
				  facility; alcoholism treatment facility; or halfway house that has made
				  application to the Department of Health and Senior Services' for licensure or
				  licensure renewal and is identified by DHSS as an approved facility.
"Arrears" means the amount of support determined through a
				  court order or administrative order from this State or another state for
				  support and maintenance of a child(ren) or of a child(ren) and the custodial
				  parent, which has not been paid.
"Assistance payment" means the money amount authorized and
				  issued to the assistance unit.
"Assistance unit" means a single adult without dependent
				  children; a couple without dependent children; dependent children only; or a
				  person or couple who are legally or blood related to or the legal guardian of
				  one or more dependent children who live together as a household unit.
"Authorized representative" means an individual (or
				  organization) whom a client designates, orally or in writing, to act on his or
				  her behalf; or in cases of incompetence the person designated by the court to
				  act for the client.
"BARA" means the Bureau of Administrative Review and Appeals
				  in the Division of Family Development.
"Benefits" means any financial or service assistance
				  available to the assistance unit through WFNJ.
"Calculated earned income" means amount of earned income
				  remaining after applicable disregards and deductions have been subtracted from
				  total gross earnings. This is the countable amount to be used in determining
				  the assistance unit's total income.
"Case management" means the provision of certain services to
				  WFNJ recipients.
"Case record" means the official file, including
				  electronically stored data, that constitutes a complete record which supports
				  the decisions and actions of the WFNJ entity on a case and may include, but is
				  not limited to, forms, chronological narrative, correspondence, record of work
				  requirement compliance and other documents pertinent to the application and
				  eligibility of the client.
"Certificate of Parentage (COP)" means the official form for
				  paternity acknowledgment in New Jersey.
"Child care center" means any home or facility licensed by
				  the Office of Licensing, Department of Children and Families, which is
				  maintained for the care, development or supervision of six or more children
				  under 13 years of age who attend for less than 24 hours a day.
"Child only case" means an assistance unit comprising a
				  child(ren) only who is (are) receiving WFNJ/TANF benefits and is(are) residing
				  with a non-needy parent-person who has been designated as the payee for the
				  child(ren)'s cash assistance grant.
"Child support" means the amount required to be paid under a
				  judgment, decree, or order, whether temporary, final or subject to
				  modification, issued by a court or an administrative agency of competent
				  jurisdiction, for the support and maintenance of a child, including a child who
				  has attained the age of majority under the law of the issuing state, or child
				  and the parent with whom the child is living, which provides monetary support,
				  health insurance, arrearages or reimbursement, and which may include other
				  related costs and fees, interest and penalties, income withholding, attorney's
				  fees and other relief.
"Client" means an all inclusive term for an applicant or
				  recipient of assistance.
"Collateral investigation" means contact with a source other
				  than members of the applicant's or recipient's immediate household which is
				  made with the knowledge and consent of the applicant(s) for the purpose of
				  obtaining or verifying information.
"Commissioner" means the Commissioner of the New Jersey
				  Department of Human Services.
"Community Work Experience Program (CWEP)" means work and
				  training only with a public, private nonprofit or private charitable employer,
				  provided to a recipient when, and to the extent, that such experience is
				  necessary to enable the recipient to adjust to, and learn how to function in,
				  an employment setting.
"Cooperation with child support" means making a good faith
				  effort to establish parentage and establish, modify and/or enforce a support
				  order(s) and/or health care coverage.
"County agency" means the county agency that was
				  administering the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program at the time
				  the Federal "Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of
				  1996," P.L.
				  104-193, was enacted and which shall also
				  administer the WFNJ Program in that county.
"County residence" means that county where an applicant or
				  recipient is residing.
"Couple" means two individuals who live together, function as
				  one economic unit, and present themselves as a couple to the WFNJ
				  agency.
"CP&P" means the Division of Child Protection and
				  Permanency in the Department of Children and Families.
"CSP" means the Child Support and Paternity Program.
"Custodial parent" means the primary resident parent prior to
				  the establishment of the order determining custody.
"Date of eligibility" means for an eligible applicant, the
				  date of the application or as soon thereafter as there is evidence of financial
				  need; or when verification of eligibility has been satisfactorily
				  completed.
"Denied application" means a determination that, for a
				  specific reason, the applicant is determined ineligible for assistance.
"Department" means the New Jersey Department of Human
				  Services.
"Designated payee" means a person signing the application to
				  whom the assistance benefits will be issued.
"Disability" means, with respect to an individual, a physical
				  or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life
				  activities of such individual such as hearing, seeing, speaking, walking,
				  breathing, performing manual tasks, caring for oneself, learning or working; a
				  record of such an impairment; or being regarded as having such an impairment
				  (Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 and Rehabilitation Act of
				  1973).
"Dismissed application" means recognition that eligibility
				  need not be considered further because the applicant moved to another state
				  during the application process or cannot be located, or the application was
				  registered in error.
"Disregards" means the amount of earned income which is not
				  considered in the WFNJ program when determining the amount of the assistance
				  benefit.
"DDD" means the Division of Developmental
				  Disabilities.
"Division of Employment Services (DES)" means the office
				  within the State Department of Labor and Industry responsible for
				  administration of Unemployment Insurance and Temporary Disability Benefits
				  programs and for operation of the State Employment Service.
"Division of Family Development (DFD)" means the office
				  within the State Department of Human Services responsible for supervision of
				  the administration of county and municipal agencies.
"DVRS" means the Division of Vocational and Rehabilitation
				  Services.
"DYFS" means the Division of Youth and Family Services in the
				  Department of Human Services.
"Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT)" means the utilization of
				  a Families First debit card by which a recipient may draw benefits through an
				  approved financial institution or vendor.
"Eligible medical institution" means a facility or specified
				  section thereof certified as an approved institution for the purpose of
				  treating acute illness (private or general hospitals) or providing care for the
				  chronically ill (long term care facilities).
"Emergency assistance" means a program of assistance and
				  related services to WFNJ recipients for brief periods of time, necessitated by
				  unusual circumstances which were neither foreseen nor controllable by the
				  recipient.
"Enrollment" means the WFNJ applicant/recipient has been
				  admitted to a Department of Health and Senior Services' licensed or approved
				  residential substance abuse treatment program, is physically residing at the
				  treatment facility, or has been admitted to a DHSS in-patient or out-patient
				  facility.
"Exempt resource" means a resource which is not to be taken
				  into consideration when computing extent of need and is not subject to
				  liquidation requirements.
"Families First" means the program which utilizes Electronic
				  Benefit Transfer as an alternate method of distributing benefits, such as but
				  not limited to cash assistance and NJ SNAP benefits, to eligible individuals
				  and families.
"Family violence" means subjecting an individual(s) to
				  extreme cruelty or physical battering, as defined at 408(a)(7)(C) of the Social
				  Security Act. These behavioral acts of abuse by a perpetrator are those
				  behaviors that result in, or threaten to result in, physical or mental
				  injury/abuse; threatened or attempted sexual assault; sexual assault activity
				  involving a dependent child; the forcing of an individual as the caretaker
				  relative of a dependent child to take part in non-consensual sexual acts or
				  activities; and neglecting or preventing the individual(s) from getting medical
				  care. Such harmful physical and controlling behavior(s) by the perpetrator,
				  that may have occurred in the past or are presently taking place, can cause,
				  but is not limited to, economic intimidation and isolation of the intimate
				  partner(s) or other family member(s), and may impact that individual's
				  compliance with WFNJ program requirements or in seeking needed services for
				  fear of their own or their child(ren)'s safety.
"Filiation proceedings" means court action to establish
				  paternity and responsibility for support of a child born out-of-wedlock.
"Financial income eligibility" means it is determined that
				  the applicant's total monthly income is less than the applicable maximum income
				  level established for needy individuals and families in the WFNJ
				  program.
"Full-time employment" means employment unsubsidized by any
				  level of government in which a person is engaged for at least 35 hours a
				  week.
"Full-time post-secondary student" means a student enrolled
				  for a minimum of 12 credit hours in a post-secondary school.
"FVO Risk Assessment" means the specific contracted services
				  of the Department of Human Services' (DHS) designated domestic violence agency
				  or the Department of Community Affairs (DCA), Division On Women's (DOW) sexual
				  assault service program to assess WFNJ TANF/GA individuals, who are granted a
				  Family Violence Option (FVO) Waiver, for the purpose of confirming the
				  individual's need for a waiver or continued need for a waiver. The assessment
				  includes a safety and service plan or a strategy consistent with the identified
				  needs and safety concerns of WFNJ TANF/GA individuals; and the identification
				  of intervention services.
"FVO Risk Assessment Process" means the standardized process
				  established within each WFNJ CWA to refer WFNJ TANF/GA individuals, granted a
				  FVO Waiver to the DHS' designated domestic violence agency or the DCA, DOW's
				  sexual assault service program for a FVO Risk Assessment.
"Good faith effort for WFNJ/GA" means that the GA individual
				  shall provide oral, written or additional information and documentary evidence
				  known to, possessed by or reasonably obtainable by that individual, which leads
				  to the identification of his or her child(ren) and the identification of the
				  custodial parent(s), and is relevant to establishing paternity when applicable,
				  and to obtaining a support order(s) and/or health care coverage.
"Good faith effort for WFNJ/TANF" means that the TANF
				  individual shall provide oral, written or additional information and
				  documentary evidence known to, possessed by or reasonably obtainable by that
				  individual, that may lead to the identification and/or location of the
				  non-custodial parent(s), and is relevant to establishing paternity when
				  applicable, and to obtaining a support order(s) and/or health care
				  coverage.
"Gross earned income" means the total earnings of members of
				  the assistance unit before applicable disregards and deductions are subtracted,
				  or the net profit from self-employment before income tax or personal taxes are
				  deducted.
"Head of household" means the individual who is recognized by
				  other members of the household as having primary responsibility for financial
				  control and direction of the household.
"Homelessness, state of" means when the physical health and
				  safety of an assistance unit, through no fault of its members, is imperiled by
				  substantial loss of shelter.
"IM" means income maintenance.
"Incapacity" means physical or mental defect, illness or
				  impairment, supported by competent medical testimony, of such a debilitating
				  nature as to reduce substantially or eliminate an individual's ability to
				  support or care for himself or herself and/or the otherwise eligible child in
				  his or her care, which is expected to last for at least 30 days.
"Income" means, but is not limited to, commissions, salaries,
				  self-employed earnings, child support and alimony payments, interest and
				  dividend earnings, wages, rent receipts, unemployment compensation, any legal
				  or equitable interest or entitlement owed that was acquired by a cause of
				  action, suit, claim or counterclaim, insurance benefits, temporary disability
				  claims, estate income, trusts, Federal income tax refunds, State income tax
				  refunds, homestead rebates, lottery prizes, casino and racetrack winnings,
				  inheritances, annuities, retirement benefits, veteran's benefits, union
				  benefits, or other source that may be defined as income by the
				  Commissioner.
"Income eligibility standard" means the income eligibility
				  threshold based on assistance unit size for benefits provided within the limit
				  of funds appropriated by the Legislature.
"Income exclusions" means income that is not to be taken into
				  consideration when determining WFNJ financial eligibility.
"Income-in-kind" means income received in the form of goods
				  or services rather than cash.
"Inquiry" means any request for information about assistance
				  programs which is not a request for an application.
"Institution" means a public or private facility providing 24
				  hour residential placement, care or incarceration.
"Intervention services" means those activities and services
				  offered by the DHS' designated domestic violence agencies, the DOW's sexual
				  assault service programs or through other community providers, such as, but not
				  limited to, counseling.
"Legal custody" means the general right to exercise
				  continuing control over the person of a child derived from court order or
				  otherwise.
"Legal guardian" means a person who exercises continuing
				  control over the person or property, or both, of a child, including any
				  specific right of control over an aspect of the child's upbringing, pursuant to
				  a court order.
"Legally-related" means a relationship created through
				  marriage, adoption or legal guardianship procedures.
"Licensed residential substance abuse treatment program"
				  means a Department of Health and Senior Services' licensed residential
				  substance abuse treatment program; drug treatment facility; alcoholism
				  treatment facility; or halfway house.
"Location" means verified information about the alleged
				  father's and/or non-custodial parent's physical whereabouts, employer(s),
				  and/or other sources of income or assets, as appropriate, which are sufficient
				  and necessary to take the next appropriate action on a case.
"LWD" means the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce
				  Development.
"MDO" means Medicaid District Office in the Division of
				  Medical Assistance and Health Services.
"Medicaid" means the New Jersey Medical Assistance and Health
				  Services Program in the Department of Human Services.
"Medicaid Only" means provision of medical assistance only to
				  a family or certain individuals who are eligible for WFNJ benefits and choose
				  to waive the money payment benefit portion.
"Medicaid Special" means Medicaid coverage available to any
				  dependent child under 21 or an independent child under age 21 based on
				  financial eligibility only regardless of other program requirements (for
				  example, WFNJ, employment, training, CSP or school attendance).
"Medical Assistance (MA)" means payments on behalf of
				  recipients to providers for medical care and services.
"Money payment" means an assistance check paid to, or funds
				  deposited through EBT for a recipient or his or her authorized payee.
"Monthly amount" means the amount of money required, provided
				  or received for one month.
"Monthly grant" means the amount of money payment to be made
				  each month to an assistance unit.
"Municipal agency" means an agency within a municipality that
				  has been designated, via municipal resolution, to administer the WFNJ/GA
				  Program.
"Municipality" means any city, borough, township, town,
				  village or municipality governed by a board or commissioners or an improvement
				  commission.
"Needy person" means a person who requires and qualifies for
				  a money payment in the WFNJ program.
"New application" means a signed request for assistance by an
				  individual who has never previously applied under that program in any county or
				  municipality in the State.
"NJSES" means the New Jersey State Employment Service, New
				  Jersey Department of Labor.
"NJ SNAP" means the New Jersey Supplemental Nutrition
				  Assistance Program.
"Non-custodial parent" means the non-primary resident parent
				  prior to the establishment of an order determining custody.
"Noneligible person" means a person who is neither sanctioned
				  nor required by law or regulation to be included in the WFNJ assistance
				  unit.
"Non-needy caretaker" means a relative caring for a dependent
				  child, or a legal guardian of a minor child who, in the absence of a natural or
				  adoptive parent, assumes parental responsibility for such minor child.
"Obligee" means the individual or entity entitled to receive
				  child support and health insurance or provide health insurance under a court
				  order for support and shall include agencies of this and another jurisdiction
				  to which an obligee has assigned the obligee's right to support.
"Obligor" means the individual who according to applicable
				  law(s) has the obligation to pay child support and/or provide health insurance
				  coverage.
"On-the-job-training (OJT)" means an activity in which a
				  participant is hired by a public or private sector employer for which the
				  employer is reimbursed a portion of the individual's wages while he or she is
				  learning on the job.
"Out-of-wedlock child" means a child born to a mother who is
				  not married to the father of such child.
"Ownership of real or personal property" means, for WFNJ
				  program purposes, any and all rights, title or interest, legal or equitable, to
				  such property.
"Parent" means natural and/or adoptive parent(s),
				  parent-person(s), or legal guardian(s).
"Parent-minor" means a parent of a child or children who is
				  himself or herself under the age of 18.
"Parent-person" refers to an adult individual related through
				  blood, marriage or adoption to a child who, in the absence of a natural or
				  adoptive parent, assumes parental responsibility for that child.
"Payee" means the person designated to receive assistance
				  payments on behalf of the eligible members of an assistance unit.
"Pending application" means a general term for application,
				  reapplication, reopened application, or transferred application prior to
				  official disposition.
"Per capita" means an amount equal to one individual's share
				  of the total (allowance, cost, income, and so forth).
"Personal interview" means face-to-face discussion between
				  individuals.
"Potential resource" means a resource which, through
				  liquidation, will provide cash for the use of the assistance unit or for
				  reimbursement to the agency.
"Poverty level" means the official poverty level based on
				  family size, established and adjusted under Section 673(2) of Subtitle B of the
				  "Community Services Block Grant Act," Pub. L. 97-35 (
				  42
				  U.S.C. §
										9902(2)
				  ).
"Program" means the Work First New Jersey (WFNJ)
				  program.
"Protective payee" means a person authorized by the WFNJ
				  entity under certain conditions to receive and administer assistance payments
				  on behalf of an eligible family.
"Protective payment" means assistance payment made to an
				  individual other than the parent or parent-person, as designated by the WFNJ
				  entity under certain conditions.
"Provider" means any person, public or private institution,
				  agency or business concern, approved by the Division, who lawfully provides
				  medical care, services, goods and/or supplies, and holding, where applicable, a
				  current valid license to provide such services or to dispense such goods and/or
				  supplies.
"Public assistance" means assistance rendered to needy single
				  adults, couples without dependent children and families with dependent children
				  and includes all benefits provided under the WFNJ program.
"Reapplication" means a signed request for assistance by an
				  individual who has previously applied for, but never received, assistance under
				  that program in any county or municipality in the State.
"Recipient" means a recipient of benefits under the WFNJ
				  program.
"Recovery" means the repayment of assistance improperly
				  obtained.
"Redetermination of eligibility" means a review and
				  investigation of all facts and circumstances relating to the recipient's
				  application to determine continuing eligibility for receipt of WFNJ assistance
				  benefits.
"Referral" means a request for assistance and/or services
				  from a public or private agency or individual on behalf of another
				  individual.
"Refugee Resettlement Program (RRP)" means a Federally funded
				  program designed to help meet the needs of refugees as defined by the
				  Immigration and Naturalization Service.
"Registration" means the action of the WFNJ administrative
				  entity in making an official record of and assigning a control number to an
				  application.
"Reopened application" means a signed request for assistance
				  by an individual who has previously received assistance under that program in
				  any county or municipality in the State.
"Representative payee" means a person appointed by the court
				  under certain conditions to receive and administer payments on behalf of an
				  eligible family or individual.
"Resident of New Jersey" means a person who is living in the
				  State for other than a temporary purpose and who has no intention of moving
				  from the State.
"Resources" means all real and personal property.
"Resource limit" means the maximum amount of
				  resources/assets, that will not be taken into consideration when determining
				  eligibility for the WFNJ program.
"Responsible adult" means a person who agrees to be
				  designated to receive assistance payments on behalf of a parent minor and his
				  or her child(ren) and who is 21 years of age or older, of reputable character
				  who can provide a safe, nurturing home life and/or will advocate on behalf of
				  the parent-minor as well as provide stability, guidance and support to a
				  parent-minor and his or her child(ren).
"Restricted payments" means checks drawn to the order of a
				  specified person and subject to some condition or restriction which prevents
				  immediate and unconditional negotiation and use by the payee upon delivery;
				  checks drawn to the order of a third person or a vendor and intended for use on
				  behalf of the client.
"Retirement, Survivors and Disability Insurance (RSDI)" means
				  the Federal program administered by the Social Security Administration (SSA)
				  which provides protection to workers and their families against loss or
				  stoppage of earnings resulting from retirement at age 62 or older, death or
				  disability.
"Return to state of origin" means that a family, who has
				  resided in New Jersey for a relatively short period desires to return to the
				  state from which it came.
"RSDI" means Retirement, Survivors and Disability
				  Insurance.
"Sanction" means loss of receipt of assistance benefits for a
				  designated period of time because of noncompliance with program
				  requirement(s).
"Services" means any WFNJ benefits that are not provided in
				  the form of cash assistance.
"Social Security payment" means RSDI benefit.
"Spouse" means a husband or wife of a specified
				  individual.
"Spousal-support obligation" means a support obligation for a
				  spouse or former spouse of the obligor.
"SSA" means Social Security Administration.
"SSI" means Federal Supplemental Security Income
				  Program.
"State IV-D Agency" means the Department of Human Services
				  (DHS).
"State institution" means any institutional facility for the
				  mentally ill or developmentally disabled, penal institution or veteran's
				  hospital under the jurisdiction of the State of New Jersey.
"State office" means the Division of Family
				  Development.
"Substance Abuse Initiative" means active participation in
				  substance abuse treatment services that requires a substance abuse assessment
				  administered by a professional clinical care coordinator (CCC) and treatment
				  services as determined clinically appropriate by the CCC, for all WFNJ eligible
				  applicants and recipients who have substance abuse problems.
"Suspended grant" means a payment which is withheld from the
				  recipient pending clarification of continuing eligibility and/or extent of need
				  or because of temporary increase of available resources.
"TANF" means the Federal welfare reform program called
				  Temporary Assistance for Needy Families.
"Temporary payee" means a person designated temporarily by
				  the WFNJ entity to receive assistance payments on behalf of an eligible
				  individual or family, usually in an emergency situation.
"Time-limited assistance" means an aggregate total of 60
				  cumulative months of receipt of WFNJ benefits whether or not those months are
				  accrued consecutively or intermittently during periods of program
				  participation.
"Timely notice" means a notice that is mailed to a WFNJ
				  applicant/recipient by a county or municipal agency at least 10 calendar days
				  before the effective date of an agency's decision or action concerning WFNJ
				  benefits.
"Title IV-D" means Part D, "Child Support and Establishment
				  of Paternity," of subchapter IV of the Social Security Act (
				  42 U.S.C. §
										651 et seq.) under which states receive
				  partial Federal reimbursement of their administrative expenses for establishing
				  paternity and collecting child support.
"Total countable income" means the sum of all recognized
				  income of the assistance unit, including unearned and calculated earned
				  income.
"Transfer application" means a signed request for assistance
				  from a recipient who is presently receiving assistance under the same program
				  in another county or municipality in the State.
"Unrestricted payments" means checks drawn to the order of
				  and delivered to the recipient or authorized payee and received by such person
				  without direction of any kind as a condition of receiving the payment.
"Vendor payment" means a payment drawn to the order of a
				  person or facility for providing goods or services to or for the client,
				  representing payment for such goods or services.
"Vocational training" means providing recipients with
				  classroom training experience and instruction related to specific occupational
				  areas in demand in their labor market area. Training may be combined with
				  CWEP.
"Voluntary acknowledgment of paternity" means consent to the
				  parentage of a child(ren) by signing a Certificate of Parentage. This includes
				  a request by the alleged father and/or the non-custodial parent for genetic
				  testing.
"WFNJ/TANF" means the Work First New Jersey/Temporary
				  Assistance for Needy Families Program.
"WFNJ/GA" means the Work First New Jersey/General Assistance
				  Program.
"Withdrawn application" means an oral or written request by
				  an applicant that the WFNJ entity terminate its activity on his or her
				  application.
"Work activity" means, but is not limited to, the following:
				  employment, on-the-job-training, job search and job readiness assistance;
				  vocational educational training; job skills training related directly to
				  employment; community work experience; alternative work experience; supportive
				  work; community service programs, including the provision of child care as a
				  community service project; in the case of a teenage parent or a recipient under
				  the age of 19 who is expected to graduate or complete their course of study by
				  their 19th birthday, satisfactory attendance at a secondary school or in a
				  course of study leading to a certificate of general equivalence; and education
				  that is necessary for employment in the case of a person who has not received a
				  high school diploma or a certificate of high school equivalency, a course of
				  study leading to a certificate of general equivalency, or post-secondary
				  education, when combined with community work experience participation or other
				  approved work activities, including employment.
"Work First New Jersey participants" means all individuals in
				  the assistance unit.
"Work First New Jersey program" means the single public
				  assistance program established pursuant to
				  P.L.
				  1997, c. 13, c.14, c.37
				  and c.38, which provides assistance to single adults, couples without dependent
				  children and families with dependent children.