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Title 7: SNAP Page 37 Iowa Department of Health and Human Services Employees’ Manual Chapter C: Nonfinancial Eligibility Work Registration Revised September 27, 2024 Disqualification for MWR Work Violations  Serving the minimum disqualification period and complying with the failed requirement. If the person has not complied with the requirement that was failed by the time the minimum disqualification period ends, the disqualification remains in effect until the person does comply with the requirement that was failed. Procedure: A disqualified person complies by:  Getting a new job that is comparable in salary or in hours to the job that was quit, if disqualified for a voluntarily quit. NOTE: If the new job provides at least 30 hours per week or pays gross weekly wages of at least the federal minimum wage times 30 hours, the person becomes exempt from work registration and does not have to serve the minimum disqualification period. See below.  Increasing hours of work to 30 or more, if disqualified for a reduction of work effort. NOTE: When the hours of work increase to 30 or more, or gross weekly wages increase to at least the federal minimum wage times 30 hours, the person becomes exempt from work registration and does not have to serve the minimum disqualification period. Do not implement the disqualification period if before the effective date of the disqualification period the person either:  Complies with the failed requirement, or  Becomes exempt from work registration for any reason. Reinstate the person’s benefits if necessary. When the disqualification period of a person who is a member of a certified household ends for any reason, add the person back into the household starting with the month following the month in which the disqualification ended. If the disqualified person is not a member of a certified household, the person must file a new application to get benefits again.

1. Mr. M is disqualified for a minimum of two months for voluntarily reducing his hours of work to less than 30 hours per week. The disqualification period starts on March 1. The rest of his household remains certified. On March 14, Mr. M starts a new job working 30 hours per week. He is now exempt from work registration, because he is working 30 hours a week. Mr. M is added back to the eligible household effective April 1. 2. Same situation as Example 1, except that Mr. M does not start his new job until May 14. He is added back to the eligible household effective June 1, for a total of three months of disqualification.