1. Work Incentive (WIN) WIN is a reimbursement program for K- TAP adults who are discontinued with countable earnings WIN became effective 4/1/2003

2. Facts about WIN Adults could receive $130 monthly for up to 9 months as reimbursement for working expenses WIN is once in lifetime You cannot waive or postpone receipt of WIN

3. Facts about WIN WIN is excluded in SNAP and Medicaid and for SNAP, the family is categorically eligible Families may not receive WIN, FAD, or K-TAP concurrently and WIN is not a TANF month

4. To Qualify for WIN Adult household member must Be discontinued with countable earnings Be timely in the report/verif of earnings Have eligible child in home Be employed Have work expense Live in Kentucky Be at or under 200% of poverty scale

5. What Do I Do? Work the K-TAP case first! Answer the KAMES question correctly concerning RPT/VER timely If WIN eligible, KAMES will upload STEP and the first payment will be issued automatically on the 10 th of the effective month

6. What Do I Do? Subsequent payments require worker acknowledgement of form WIN-1 Proof of continued employment can be one check stub. Don’t re-budget monthly. Accept client statement about being under 200% poverty scale

7. How do I make the payment? Access STEP payment screen to: Enter pay type (type 24) Complete Date-name-county-address- fields (similar to PA-32 Payments) Enter X to complete transaction Check the delete payment screen prior to moving on!

8. Type Information on this screen

9. How Do the Forms Work? WIN eligible adults will be issued form WIN-1 by STEP. WIN-1 must be received by the 10 th Indicate non-receipt on System Generated PA-33 screen by the 12 th

10. How Do the Forms Work? STEP issues WIN-2, second notice, if worker indicates non-receipt of the original form If WIN-2 isn’t received by last workday of the report month the reimbursement will stop and the individual is not eligible again for WIN

11. How Do the Forms Work? If WIN-1 is received but isn’t complete, send another WIN-1 with PA-105 indicating what items need completion and that the form is due by end of month If your manually issued WIN-1 and PA- 105 is ignored, WIN is over

12. How Do the Forms Work? If you forget to use the system generated 2 nd notice for WIN forms, you must manually send form WIN-1 and PA-105 to the recipient

13. What if? If job is lost, recipient has one month to obtain new job and 10 days to verify the new job If new job report is timely but the verification isn’t, send form PA-105 denying WIN

14. What if? The K-TAP case is discontinued by mistake? Reinstate prior to the 10 th calendar day of the next month, otherwise, if earnings are in the case, a WIN payment will be made. If that happens, it’s worker error, not client error