CT SB00209

Repeals and replaces Section 17b-112k to expand a pilot program serving at least one thousand (changed from "not more than one hundred") persons receiving temporary family assistance and participating in Jobs First employment services.

Requires pilot program participants to receive vocational education and courses leading to a high school diploma or equivalent, with participation counting as an allowable activity in their employability plan.

Allows the Commissioner of Social Services to grant two six-month extensions of time-limited cash assistance benefits to families with an adult enrolled in the pilot program if they made good-faith effort to comply and earned less than 100 percent of the federal poverty level.

Requires a joint report by October 1, 2013 to relevant legislative committees detailing program participation numbers, educational activities, degrees and certificates obtained, and employment outcomes.