1 / 12

Cindy Good

Ray Packer. Cindy Good. Department of Public Welfare. What is COMPASS?. “ Com monwealth of P ennsylvania A ccess to S ocial S ervices”. The Citizens’ Perspective. Families have to apply for NSLP programs separately from other social service programs

awhisnant
Download Presentation

Cindy Good

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript

  1. Ray Packer Cindy Good . . . . Department of Public Welfare

  2. What is COMPASS? “Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Access to Social Services”

  3. The Citizens’ Perspective • Families have to apply for NSLP programs separately from other social service programs • Parents inadvertently provide erroneous DPW Case Number information on the application form • Families who are authorized for TANF or Food Stamps don’t realize that they are automatically eligible for the Free Meals program.

  4. The Sponsor Perspective • Sponsors need to validate the information on 3% of client applications • Sponsors frequently communicate with the County Assistance Offices to verify participation in the DPW TANF/FS programs • This validation is a manual process and is a large burden on the time and resources of NSLP administrators and CAOs • PDE receives the annual list of TANF/FS participants from DPW and manually distributes to the Sponsors so that they can perform direct certification

  5. How Can COMPASS Help? • The Department of Education has evaluated COMPASS and believes it can: • streamline citizen access to the program • allow households to apply 24/7 in the privacy of their homes • provide a tool for the Sponsors to have efficient access to • Online application data via the COMPASS Outbox • Real time TANF and Food Stamps eligibility information • Direct Certification lists

  6. COMPASS Outbox • View and print NSLP applications that clients fill out online • View TANF/Food Stamps eligibility for all online applicants • Archives online applications for 4 years • Routes online applications to the appropriate Sponsor, based on the applicants’ schools

  7. COMPASS Outbox

  8. TANF/FS Eligibility Inquiry • Provides TANF and Food Stamps participation for individuals based on DPW Case Number or SSN • Minimizes the need to contact County Assistance Offices • TANF and Food Stamps participation information is available regarding all students, regardless of the method used to apply for NSLP

  9. TANF/FS Eligibility Inquiry

  10. Direct Certification lists • Available to Sponsors based on the school districts for which they administer the programs • Available to view, print, or export • Export is in the same format as the current file

  11. Direct Certification

  12. Direct Certification Detail

More Related