# Work Lanes Across the Three Doors **A companion to the STANDFAST work lanes addendum** Born Between 2 Generals · Data year 2026 --- ## The structure The four lanes are one system. The doors into it are separate. That is the same architecture as the front doors: shared machinery underneath, separate entrances on top, because the people walking in have different rules attached to them and a shared entrance gives at least one of them a wrong answer. | | Veterans (Standfast) | Disability (Lintel) | Reentry and recovery (Cornerstone, Drydock) | |---|---|---|---| | **Screen work** | Open | Open | Open | | **Security** | Open, with one bar | Open, no conviction-based bar | **Largely closed — see below** | | **Working dogs** | Open | Open | Partially closed | | **Service corps** | Open | Open | Open | Three of the four lanes carry across cleanly. Security does not, and the reason is worth stating in full rather than discovering after routing somebody into it. --- ## Security: what the licensing actually says Security is the lane with the shortest distance between a person and a paycheck, and it is the lane with the hardest eligibility floor. That floor is set state by state and it is unforgiving. **Felony convictions.** Arizona requires that an applicant for a security guard registration certificate not have been convicted of any felony and not currently be under indictment for one, and separately bars applicants who are on parole, on community supervision, on work furlough, on home arrest, or on release on any other basis. *Confidence: Verified — A.R.S. § 32-2622.* Texas bars a person convicted of a felony or a Class A misdemeanor from holding a security license for twenty years, and a Class B misdemeanor for five, with limited exceptions. *Confidence: Likely — reported consistently in Texas licensing guidance; confirm against Texas Occupations Code before relying on it.* **The consequence.** The population coming out of a correctional campus or a treatment court is, in a large number of states, statutorily excluded from the lane with the shortest path to work. Not disadvantaged — excluded, by operation of the licensing statute, for a period measured in decades. Routing that person toward security is routing them into a wall. **The collision that matters most.** Arizona also requires that an applicant for an *armed* security guard registration certificate not have been discharged from the armed services under other than honorable conditions. *Confidence: Verified — A.R.S. § 32-2622(B)(4).* STANDFAST's position is that there is no discharge-status gate, because the highest-risk group is disproportionately the one a status gate would turn away. Arizona's armed security statute is exactly such a gate, written into state law. **The framework's own principle and the state's licensing rule point in opposite directions**, and the application cannot pretend otherwise. What it can do is tell a veteran the truth before they spend money on training they will not be permitted to use. **What this means for the build.** The security lane needs a screening step before it recommends anything, and the screen has to run on the user's own state. Until the licensing grid exists, the lane can describe the work and cannot route anyone into it. **Recommended: a 51-jurisdiction security licensing grid**, on the SOUNDING pattern — verified or open, never estimated. Minimum fields: 1. Licensing authority 2. Unarmed: minimum age, training hours, fee 3. Armed: minimum age, additional hours, firearms qualification 4. Conviction bar: felony — permanent, look-back period, or case-by-case 5. Conviction bar: misdemeanor classes and look-back 6. Discharge-status condition, if any 7. Supervision status bar (parole, probation, community supervision) 8. Substance-related disqualifiers and drug screening requirement 9. Rehabilitation, appeal, or restoration-of-rights pathway 10. Military training credit or fee waiver 11. Reciprocity with other states Field 9 is the important one and it is the one nobody publishes clearly. A conviction bar with a restoration pathway is a delay. A conviction bar without one is a wall. The difference decides whether this lane is offered to the reentry track at all. --- ## What changes on the disability side The lanes are the same. The arithmetic underneath them is not, and it changes which lane fits. **Shift work is the best-matched work type in the entire benefits system.** Security, event work and detection work are scheduled in shifts, and shifts are the one form of work where the person controls monthly hours directly. That control is exactly what the rules reward: - **On SSDI**, the trial work period counts a month at a low monthly threshold, and substantial gainful activity is measured monthly. Shift work lets a person see the line coming and decide, month by month, whether to cross it — rather than signing an offer letter and finding out. - **On SSI**, there is no cliff at all. The payment steps down gradually as earnings rise. Shift work produces exactly the gradual on-ramp the SSI rules were built to accommodate, and almost nobody on SSI is told this. **Screen work has the same property** and adds one more: it can be done in whatever hours a person's condition actually permits, which is the constraint that disqualifies most other work. **No conviction-based screening on this door.** A person on SSDI or SSI is not presumptively anything. The security lane on the disability door screens for state licensing requirements like any applicant, and nothing else. The conviction screen belongs to the reentry door, where it is relevant, and appears nowhere on this one. --- ## The corps across all three doors QUARTERS works the same everywhere, and it is the answer for anyone the security lane turns away. The legislative ask does not change by population — a service-corps stipend that is FICA-covered, statutorily excluded from countable income, and not evidence of substantial gainful activity during the term of service. One bill covers all three doors, which makes it a stronger bill rather than a weaker one: it is not a veterans bill or a disability bill or a reentry bill, it is a work-credit bill. **And it is the lane no licensing statute can close.** Service placement carries no state license, no conviction bar, and no discharge-status condition. For the person Arizona will not register and Texas will not license for twenty years, this is the only one of the four lanes that is definitely open. --- ## Open items | Item | Who | Why | |---|---|---| | 51-jurisdiction security licensing grid, 11 fields | Research | The security lane cannot route anyone without it | | Texas Occupations Code — confirm the 20-year and 5-year bars directly | Research | Currently Likely, cited from secondary sources | | Whether any state offers a restoration pathway that reaches a treatment-court graduate | Research | Decides whether security is offered to the reentry door at all | | Military training credit and fee waivers for security licensure, by state | Research | Materially shortens the veteran path where it exists | | Whether routing a person toward a lane their state bars creates exposure | **Olson** | Same question as the third-party postings issue | | The discharge-status collision — position to take publicly | **Krissy** | The framework says no gate; a state statute says otherwise. The app has to say something | --- ## What does not change No discharge-status gate in anything this portfolio controls. Where a state imposes one, it is reported as the state's rule and labelled as such, never adopted as ours. Gaps shown, not filled. Nothing transmitted off the device.