| Account | Description | FY07 GAA |
FY08 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4401-1000 | Employment Services Program For a program to provide employment and training services for recipients of benefits provided under the program of transitional aid to families with dependent children; provided, that certain parents who have not yet reached the age of 18, including those who are ineligible for transitional aid to families with dependent children and who would qualify for benefits under chapter 118 of the General Laws but for the deeming of the grandparents' income, shall be allowed to participate in the employment services program; provided further, that funds from this item may be expended on former recipients of the program for up to 1 year after termination of their benefits due to employment or subsection (f) of section 110 of chapter 5 of the acts of 1995 or any successor statue; provided further, that funds from this item shall be expended for the purposes of the young parents program, transportation costs, pre-employment skills training and education programs, and structured subsidized employment services; provided further, that the department of transitional assistance may use funds from this item and shall collaborate with the department of workforce development to access funding through Title I of the federal Workforce Investment Act to ensure that sufficient resources are available to provide substantive, pre-employment skills training, including training that integrates basic education and English as a second language instruction, to recipients of transitional aid to families with dependent children who are in need of such services; provided further, that funds from this item may also be expended for re-employment services, job search assistance, vocational training services, job retention services, adult basic education, graduate equivalency degree courses, English as a second language courses and training programs for persons with limited English proficiency, and emergency work-related expenses for recipients, including emergency transportation costs; provided further, that the department shall inform all recipients and applicants of the full range of programs and of skills training programs funded by Title I of the federal Workforce Investment Act accessible through the one-stop career centers and adult education programs funded by the department of education available under this program; provided further, that funds may be allocated from this item to other agencies for the purposes of this program; provided further, that within 90 days of a recipient without a high school degree or a graduate equivalency degree or proficiency in English who is subject to said subsection (f) of said section 110 of said chapter 5, or any successor statute, becoming eligible for benefits, the department shall offer to the recipient a skills assessment to identify barriers to employment; and provided further, that in the event of a deficiency, nothing in this item shall give rise to or shall be construed as giving rise to any enforceable right or entitlement to services in excess of the amounts appropriated by this item |
27,087,733 | 27,162,289 |
| SPENDING CATEGORY |
FY04 Spending |
FY05 Spending |
FY06 Spending |
FY07 Spending |
FY08 GAA |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Wages & Salaries | 234 | 3,049 | 3,100 | 3,359 | 3,359 |
| Pensions & Benefits | 0 | 311 | 88 | 110 | 110 |
| Operating Expenses | 1 | 941 | 847 | 786 | 786 |
| Public Assistance | 10,174 | 12,637 | 14,182 | 20,242 | 20,677 |
| Aid to Cities & Towns | 0 | 1,716 | 2,152 | 2,230 | 2,230 |
| TOTAL | 10,409 | 18,656 | 20,368 | 26,727 | 27,162 |