9026.4 Good Cause

Good cause for leaving employment includes the good cause provisions found in DSSM 9025 and resigning from a job that does not meet the suitability criteria specified at DSSM 9022. Good cause for leaving employment also includes: 1) Discrimination by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, disability, religious beliefs, national origin, or political beliefs; 2) Work demands or conditions that under continued employment would be unreasonable, such as working without being paid on schedule; 3) Acceptance by the head of household of employment, or enrollment at least half-time in any recognized school, training program or institution of higher education, that requires the head of household to leave employment; 4) Acceptance by another household member of employment or enrollment at least half- time in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education in another county which requires the household to move and thereby requires the head of household to leave employment; 5) Resignations by persons under the age of 60 which are recognized by the employer as retirement; 6) Employment which becomes unsuitable by not meeting the criteria specified in DSSM 9022 after the acceptances of such employment; 7) Acceptance of a bona fide offer of employment of more than 30 hours a week or in which the weekly earnings are equivalent to the federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours which, because of circumstances beyond the control of the head of household, subsequently either does not materialize or results in employment of less than 30 hours a week or weekly earnings of less than the federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours; and 8) Leaving a job in connection with patterns of employment in which workers frequently move from one employer to another such as migrant farm labor or construction work. There may be some circumstances where households will apply for food benefits between jobs, particularly in cases where work may not yet be available at the new job site. Even though employment at the new site has not actually begun, the quitting of previous employment will be considered as with good cause if it is part of the pattern of that type of employment. 13 DE Reg. 1335 (04/01/10)