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o Determine the need for reliable childcare and the presence of any special needs that must be addressed in the development of the childcare plan. • Support Network: o Identify those persons who provide emotional, social, or other support to the individual and family. • Other Barriers to Participation: o Legal problems, criminal background, health issues, lack of appropriate clothing, housing concerns, and lack of recent work history. • ABAWD Screening for Fitness for Work: o SNAP ABAWD participant that states or indicates on the IMPACT Assessment, a physical or mental disability or condition that is a barrier to obtaining or maintaining employment, a Statement of Medical Condition is to be provided.

An IMPACT staff person must determine if the work registration status needs to change. If a change is necessary, the IMPACT staff must notify eligibility staff via the appropriate regional mailbox.

Provider Determination: If an E&T participant is assigned to a given activity, and the provider of that activity determines that the individual is not suited to that activity (known as a provider determination), steps must be taken to address the situation.

• Any organization providing services to E&T participants is required to report no less than weekly on the progress/status of each participant. If the participant is determined unsuitable for a given program, immediate action will be taken to pursue appropriate services. • If the participant is an ABAWD and an alternate activity cannot be found, the month in which the client is notified of this determination will not be recorded as a countable month toward the ABAWD time limit. A manual override to the ABAWD status for that month may be required. • If during the review of suitability for alternate E&T services, it is determined that the work registration status needs to be reviewed/reconsidered, detailed notes regarding observations or verifications received will be recorded in case notes. • IMPACT policy staff will review and make a request to state eligibility staff via email to the appropriate mailbox to review and reconsider work registration status as appropriate. • If the individual is determined to still be an ABAWD and remains non-compliant with work requirements in subsequent months, countable months will resume as appropriate.

Any time there is a provider determination, an alternate suitable activity should be pursued for the individual. IMPACT worker will discuss with the eligibility worker, and the eligibility worker will contact the client with the determination of this change within 10 calendar days, and document when the notification occurs in the participant's case file. If the client is an ABAWD, they must also be informed that they might accrue countable months toward their three-month participation time limit the next full benefit month after the month during which the State contacted them unless they fulfill the work requirement, have good cause, live in a waived area or are otherwise exempt.

If it is suspected that the individual should be exempt from work registration, or there is a need to revise an ABAWD monthly status, a request for review of work registration status or ABAWD monthly status should be submitted to eligibility staff via the appropriate regional mailbox.