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WORK EXPERIENCE COMPONENT: TRANSITIONAL JOBS Description of the component. Provide a summary of the activities and services. A transitional job is one that provides a time-limited work experience, that is wage-paid and subsidized, and is in the public, private, or non-profit sectors for those individuals with barriers to employment who are chronically unemployed or have inconsistent work history. These jobs are designed to enable an individual to establish a work history, demonstrate work success in an employee- employer relationship, and develop the skills that lead to unsubsidized employment. Transitional jobs must sustain interactions with industry or community professionals in real world settings, have firsthand engagement with the tasks required in a given career field, emphasizes employer engagement including specific training objectives, and leads to regular employment. Some examples of types of work are maintenance, landscape, and clerical. Transitional jobs must not provide any work that has the effect of replacing the employment of an individual, it must also provide the same benefits and working conditions that are provided at the job site to employees performing comparable work for comparable hours. Transitional Job/Earnfare allows participants who have performed Community Workfare the maximum allowable hours an opportunity to earn cash assistance and gain additional work experience. After participants perform Community Workfare for the maximum allowable hours (their SNAP benefits divided by the state minimum wage) they can participate in Transitional Job/Earnfare and receive cash benefits. Transitional Job/Earnfare participation is limited to 6 months out of a consecutive 12-month period (July through June). The income is considered unearned income and is paid from the State General Revenue Funds (GRF), not SNAP E&T funds. The State will work with these providers to ensure that work-based learning activities include the required elements outlined in SNAP regulations Is this component subsidized by SNAP E&T? Subsidized Unsubsidized Both subsidized and unsubsidized 1/28/26, 11:56 AM State Plan IL FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-ilfy26stateplan//index.html 67/268