Advocacy Resources       STOP THE CLOCK! A whole family’s cash welfare is limited to 5 years (60 months) after March 1997 · The time limit applies only to cash, not Food Stamps or medical assist. · The clock is ticking any time you get cash welfare - even $1 Get a Time Out! Time Outs allow you to get cash welfare without taking time off the clock · Limited to 1 year (except Kinship Caregiver and Domestic Violence) If you fit in any of the categories below, ask your caseworker for a Time Out! Working Early Engager Exempt Volunteer Kinship Caregiver Domestic Violence Victim You are: -Working 30 hrs/wk; or -Working 20 hrs/wk + 10 hrs/wk educ. or training During your 1st year of welfare, you are: -In a training program 30 hrs/wk; or -Attending college full-time You are: -Exempt from work activity because of disability; and -Participate in MPP You have received cash welfare for a child not your own for 2 yrs. You are (or have been) a victim of domestic violence.