2025 Session Last amended: 2024 session

§ 142G.64 — Employment and Training; Grant Diversion

Plain-Language Summary

Counties can divert all or part of a participant's MFIP cash payment to an employer to subsidize a job placement. The employer must pay the participant at least minimum wage and the same rate as other employees. Training is limited to nine months, and the employer agrees to hire the participant after training.

142G.64 EMPLOYMENT AND TRAINING; GRANT DIVERSION.

Subdivision 1.Establishing the grant diversion program.

(a) County agencies may develop grant diversion programs for MFIP participants participating in employment and training services. A county agency that chooses to provide grant diversion may divert to an employer part or all of the MFIP cash payment for the participant’s assistance unit, in compliance with federal regulations and laws. Such payments to an employer are to subsidize employment for MFIP participants as an alternative to public assistance payments.

(b) In addition to diverting the MFIP grant to the employer, employment and training funds may be used to subsidize the grant diversion placement.

(c) Participants in grant diversion shall be compensated by the employer at the same rates, including periodic increases, as similarly situated employees or trainees and in accordance with applicable law, but in no event less than the federal or applicable state minimum wage, whichever is higher. §

Subd. 2.Training and placement.

(a) County agencies shall limit the length of training to nine months. Placement in a grant diversion training position with an employer is for the purpose of training and employment with the same employer who has agreed to retain the person upon satisfactory completion of training.

(b) Placement of any participant in a grant diversion subsidized training position must be compatible with the assessment and employment plan or employability development plan established for the recipient under section 142G.56.

History:

1997 c 85 art 1 s 56; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 10 s 66; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 1 s 97; 2024 c 80 art 7 s 12

History: History: 1997 c 85 art 1 s 56; 1Sp2001 c 9 art 10 s 66; 1Sp2003 c 14 art 1 s 97; 2024 c 80 art 7 s 12

Practical Notes

Grant diversion turns your welfare payment into a wage subsidy, so you get a real paycheck from an employer instead of a welfare check. The goal is permanent employment with that employer. Your placement must match your assessment and employment plan, and additional employment and training funds can supplement the grant diversion.

Source: Minnesota Office of the Revisor of Statutes