This document provides information to employing authorities funded by Community Living disABILITY Services to provide day services and/or transportation services regarding where to obtain Criminal Record Checks, Child Abuse Registry Checks, and Adult Abuse Registry Checks.
This document provides Department of Families staff with guidance regarding completing and maintaining support plans for Community Living disABILITY Services program participants.
| This internal use form is completed to attest that a Direct Support Provider has received necessary training to administer medications to a child open Children's disABILITY Services during the provision of respite services. |
This is an application form for the Connect 2 program, requesting a voice mailbox for an EIA participant. It is to be completed by employment agency staff on behalf of the participant.
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This form is required to assess whether a person may pose a risk to the health, safety or well-being of children or be unable to discharge the responsibilities as a child care worker, volunteer or licensee.
This form is required to assess whether a person may pose a risk to the health, safety or well-being of children or be unable to discharge the responsibilities as licensee (or overnight staff of a group child care home only).
When there is a critical incident reported, the agency must report all known information within one hour after a person's report is received by the agency (or by 10 a.m. the next business day if received when the agency office is closed). This is an internal form.
This resource guide is intended to help child care centre directors, staff and board members to understand and meet the requirements for developing enhanced safety plans under the The Child Care Safety Charter.
This resource guide helps child care providers to understand and meet the requirements for developing enhanced safety plans under The Child Care Safety Charter.
This form is used to request wheelchair seating components for participants of Employment and Income Assistance, Community Living disABILITY Services and Children's disABILITY Services. Requests for wheelchair seating components must be completed by an occupational therapist or physiotherapist. Requests must be submitted to the Disability and Health Support Unit for assessment.
The Wheelchair Seating Component Manual provides procedural information related to the assessment and approval of wheelchair seating component requests made for participants of Employment and Income Assistance, Community Living disABILITY Services and Children's disABILITY Services.
This Directive is intended to provide additional clarity for staff when Splitting a Child's Budget or Determining Partial Assistance for a Child.
Effective August 1, 1989, the fee charged for testing the nitrate content of well water will be increased from $5.00 to $10.00 per sample. Public health nurses will be advising social allowances recipients who require the test to pay this fee and then present the lab receipt to their financial worker for reimbursement as a health need.
The following policy clarification regarding a social allowances recipient's right to appeal is provided for your information and future reference.
The new TELS system is designed to provide workers with a tool to match Employment and Income Assistance participants to available education, training or employment opportunities in order to assist them to become self-sufficient.
In an effort to address those exceptional special needs requests of Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) participants that currently require Director's approval in a more timely and efficient manner, please be advised that effective immediately, EIA Directors may approve such special need requests up to a value not exceeding $1,000.00.
The following is intended to provide clarification re: How to handle a GA couple without children where the second adult is not complying with work expectations. How to handle deferring work expectations for the second adult of a GA family with children under 6.
The purpose of this amendment is to provide further direction regarding any requests for health services that are made by individuals who are eligible to access health services from an alternate program.
This directive sets out the criteria for approving payment of an invoice for taxi trips.
A process has been established with the Student Financial Assistance Program whereby Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) Case Coordinators may request priority processing of a participant's student loan application.
Detail provisions to be applied to all Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) applicants/participants who are engaged in legal strike action.
Outlines the procedure to be implemented in situations where a participant advises that their cheque was lost, stolen or not received and later it is determined that the cheque was cashed.
An information sharing protocol between Corrections and Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) has been signed to ensure that EIA benefits are not paid when a participant is residing in a provincial correctional facility.
The implementation of this new program does not affect Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) participants eligibility for health services benefits. EIA participants who enroll in the Palliative Care Drug Access Program (PCDAP) will need to retain their EIA drug benefits as the EIA benefit list includes some products that are not on the PCDAP benefit list. |
Subsection 5(5) of the Manitoba Assistance Act has been amended which results in same-sex common-law partners being treated in the same manner as persons who are legally married to each other, or are opposite-sex common-law partners, for the purposes of establishing and maintaining eligibility for Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) benefits.
The White Paper: Full Citizenship: A Manitoba Provincial Strategy on Disability, announced that new exemptions were being developed to assist persons with disabilities to be able to better meet their daily living costs and improve their quality of life. As a result, new exemptions have been incorporated into the Assistance Regulation, and are effective immediately. The Assistance Regulation has been amended to incorporate the provisions of the exemptions.
There are sometimes unexpected changes in a participant's circumstances where providing excess rent funds may be required to avoid undue hardship to participants and their families.
Remind staff of procedures to be followed with reference to annual reviews.
To ensure that all rent paid direct by EIA is to the appropriate landlord and SAMIN landlord records are accurate, a consistent process for EIA staff to follow has been developed.
EIA staff are to consider Manitoba Health policy when assessing eligibility for income assistance, when a family is applying to help defray the cost to allow for a full or partial waiver of the daily minimum rate charged to long-term care participants.
This directive provides policy clarification related to the treatment of earned income that is reported at intake and during enrollment.
EIA participants who are participating in an educational plan may receive awards, bursaries and grants for a variety of reasons and EIA will exempt funds of $100.00 or less and funds in excess of $100.00 may be exempt if used to offset education costs, unless used for personal needs, in which case it should be treated as unearned income.
Employment and Income Assistance (EIA) has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Manitoba Justice's Compensation for Victims of Crime (CVC) program, for an Assignment of Benefits (AOB).
