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WORK EXPERIENCE COMPONENT: WORK ACTIVITY Description of the component. Provide a summary of the activities and services. Work experience connects participants with employers to build job-related skills through practical experience or training at a worksite. Work experience is a planned, structured learning experience that takes place in a workplace for a limited period of time. LWDBs arrange worksites within the private for-profit sector, the non- profit sector, and the public sector where participants can gain work experience designed to increase their employability. Specific worksites vary throughout the state as they are coordinated at the local level by each LWDB and represent various industries and occupations. A mandatory E&T participant may identify a worksite that has not yet been developed by the LWDB. However, the mandatory participant will not be assigned to work experience at the worksite until an agreement with the site has been executed by the LWDB to ensure all applicable federal regulations and requirements are met. Worksites and worksite agreements are developed and executed by the LWDB. Section 445.009, Florida Statutes, provides workers’ compensation for participants in work experience funded via federal programs, such as SNAP E&T. In lieu of wages, mandatory E&T participants receive compensation in the form of their household's monthly food assistance allotment. Work experience hours are based on the benefit calculation. The benefit calculation is the food assistance allotment divided by the higher of the federal or state minimum wage. A work experience program will not provide any work that has the effect of replacing the employment of an individual not participating in the work experience component and provide the same benefits and working conditions that are provided at the work site to employees performing comparable work for comparable hours. The length of placement varies based on the participant’s progress towards gaining the knowledge, skills and abilities to obtain employment. A participant may be moved to another work experience assignment if it is determined that: • The worksite is not able to provide all the skills needed for the marketability of the participant. • The participant requests to be assigned to another worksite. • The worksite requests the participant be removed from their worksite. • A different worksite has an immediate opportunity for the participant to move from work experience directly into unsubsidized employment with the employer. Indicate the Target Population this component will serve. Select all that apply. ABAWDs Mandatory work registrants ages 18-59 Returning citizens (aka: ex-offenders) Those that reside in rural areas Underemployed 1/28/26, 11:18 AM State Plan FL FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-flfy26stateplan//index.html 67/99