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pilot new strategies and approaches that help overcome barriers to banking access and support the gathering and sharing of information in ways that improve equity, such as community meetings, partnerships with community -based organizations, online surveys, focus groups, human -centered design activities, and other community engagement activities. Assistance to Unemployed and Underemployed Workers The interim final rule included assistance to unemployed workers as an enumerated eligible use, including "services like job training to accelerate rehiring of unemployed workers." Treasury provided further guidance, based on recipient questions after the interim final rule, that eligible uses under this section also include "other efforts to accelerate rehiring and thus reduce unemployment, such as childcare assistance, assistance with transportation to and from a jobsite or interview, and incentives for newly employed workers[,]" as well as assistance to unemployed workers seeking to start small businesses. Finally, further guidance also provided that "public jobs programs, subsidized employment, combined education and on-the-job training programs, or job training to accelerate rehiring or address negative economic or public health impacts experienced due to a worker's occupation or level of training" are all enumerated eligible uses as assistance to unemployed or underemployed workers. The interim final rule defined eligible beneficiaries of assistance as "individuals who want and are available for work, including those who have looked for work sometime in the past 12 months or who are employed part time but who want and are available for full-time work." This definition is based on definitions used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to define individuals currently unemployed, as well as persons marginally attached to the labor force and 116