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 PUBLIC LAW 101-239—DEC. 19, 1989 103 STAT. 2467 under section 402(a) of the Social Security Act will apply to the project, unless waived by the Secretary of Health and Human Services in accordance with subsection (d). (B) RULES RELATING TO PARTICIPATION IN EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND TRAINING ACnVITIES.— (i) PARTICIPATION GENERALLY NOT REQUIRED.—Except as provided in clause (ii), the State will not require any individual who applies for or receives assistance under the project to comply with any education, employment, or training requirement of title IV of the Social Secu- rity Act, unless required to do so under a contract entered into under the project. (ii) AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE PARTICIPATION OP PARENT OF CHILD AGE 1 OR OLDER.—The State may require any individual to comply with any education, employment, or training requirement imposed under the project if the State plan approved under section 402(a) of the Social Security Act does not prohibit the State from requiring such compliance, and the individual— (I) receives assistance under the project; (II) is the parent or relative of a cnild who has attained the age of 1 year; and (III) is personally providing care for the child. (9) AVAILABILITY OF EDUCATION, EMPLOYMENT, AND TRAINING SERVICES.—The education, employment, and training services avcdlable under the State plan approved under part F of title IV of the Social Security Act will be made available to each family required to enter into a contract with a coun^ agency under the 1989 Minnesota Laws, section 10 of article 5 of chapter 282. (10) ASSISTANCE UNDER PROJECT NOT LESS THAN UNDER AFDC AND FOOD STAMP PROGRAM.— (A) ESTABLISHMENT OF POUCIES AND STANDARDS.— The State will establish policies and standards to ensure that families participating in the project receive cash assistance under the project in an amount not less than the aggregate value of the assistance that such families would nave re- ceived under the State plan approved under section 402(a) of such Act and under the food stamp program established under the Food Stamp Act of 1977 in the absence of the project. (B) IDENTIFICATION OF CHARACTERISTICS OF PARTICIPANTS WHO MIGHT RECEIVE LESS BENEFFTS THAN UNDER AFDC AND FOOD STAMP PROGRAM. — The State will identify the set or sets of characteristics of families that (but for this para- graph) might receive benefits under the project in an amount less than the amount required under subparagraph (A) to be provided to such family. (C) DETERMINATION OF BENEFIT LEVEL FOR PARTICIPANTS WITH IDENTIFIED CHARACTERISTICS.—The State wili establish a mechanism to determine, for each family with any set of characteristics identified under subparagraph (B), whether the family would (but for this pari^aph) receive benefits under the project in an amount less than the amount required under subparagraph (A) to be provided to such family. (D) ASSISTANCE UNDER PROJECT INCREASED WHERE NEC- ESSARY.—The State will, for each family which would (but

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