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with program activities, whichever is later. FS Within 15 days of determination by the FSET program that a group member is noncompliant with work requirements, the FSET will provide the group with notification of the unapproved absence or noncompliance and the requirement that the group contact FSET within the following ten days. If there is no contact or the individual neither establishes good cause nor comes into compliance, the FSET program will forward notification of noncompliance to the SSR. Upon receipt of notification that an act of noncompliance has occurred without good cause, the group will be provided with a notice of adverse action. The notice of adverse action must be specific to the applicant/recipient and include the particular act of noncompliance committed, the proposed period of ineligibility, and the action(s) which must be taken to end or avoid disqualification or other sanctions. The notice of adverse action must be sent even if the case was closed for other reasons. If the case was closed for other reasons and the group reapplies within the sanction period, the sanction will be imposed. The start date of the sanction period cannot begin prior to 15 days from the date the adverse action notice was sent. .

VOLUNTARY QUIT 1.9 Both In both TANF and FS, an individual who voluntarily quits without good cause a suitable job of 30 or more hours per week, or which paid the equivalent of 30 hours per week at federal minimum wage, is disqualified from receipt of benefits. An individual, who voluntarily reduces work effort without good cause and, after the reduction, is working less than 30 hours a week is disqualified from receipt of benefits. However no sanction should be imposed if the individual is exempt from work requirements. If an applicant for TANF and/or FS voluntarily quits a suitable job or reduces work effort in a suitable job without good cause in the 60-day period preceding the date of application, the individual is disqualified from receipt of benefits for 90 days from the date of the voluntary quit (or the date that work effort was reduced). If a recipient of TANF and/or FS voluntarily quits a suitable job or reduced work effort in a suitable job without good cause while receiving program benefits, the individual is disqualified from benefit receipt for three consecutive months, beginning with the first month in which benefits can be reduced after timely and adequate notice has been provided. In both programs, only the individual who voluntarily quits or reduces work effort without good cause is removed from the unit. The sanction can be lifted prior to the end of the sanction period if the individual secures 'comparable employment' (see Section 1.9.3: Comparable Employment in this Part) or begins to meet a work exemption criteria of the relevant program. The sanction is lifted effective the first issuance after the date the individual secures comparable employment or meets the exemption criteria provided the change was reported timely. If there is insufficient time to