The Federal Bonding Program assists both the employer and the job seeker when the qualified job seeker’s past creates a barrier to obtaining commercial bonding to gain full-time employment. Any at-risk job applicant is eligible for bonding services, including ex-offenders, recovering substance abusers (alcohol or drugs), welfare recipients, and other persons having poor financial credit, economically disadvantaged youth and adults who lack a work history, individuals dishonorably discharged from the military, and others. The program covers any type of stealing- theft, forgery, larceny, and embezzlement. It doesn’t cover “liability” due to poor workmanship, job injuries, work accidents, etc. The job must offer full time work, adequate working conditions and wages, reasonable expectation of permanence, and excludes both self-employment and employment as a franchise representative.