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• can only be attended to by the client; and • can only be attended to by the client during the hours of their employment or work activity. Crisis or emergency situations include, but are not limited to: • a death; • a health emergency; • a child’s school problem. UNREASONABLE EMPLOYMENT The employment or offer of paid employment is at a wage level below: • the state minimum wage; or • 80 percent of the state minimum wage if the state minimum wage does not apply to the job. For example, some seasonal farm workers, babysitters, newspaper deliverers, etc. are exempt from the state minimum wage rate and may not make at least 80 percent of the state minimum wage rate. If the employment offer is less than 80 percent of the state minimum wage rate, it would be considered unreasonable employment standards. The employment, offer of employment, or activity: • discriminates in terms of age, sex, race, religion, ethnic origin, or physical or mental disability; • is unavailable due to a strike or lockout; • causes an unreasonable risk to health and safety; • has working hours or the nature of the employment interferes with the client’s religious observances, convictions or beliefs; or • where the employment would require travel time in excess of two hours, not including the time necessary to transport family members to a school or a place providing care, or, if walking, the round-trip distance is more than two miles. GOOD CAUSE REASONS SPECIFIC TO VOLUNTARY QUIT Good cause for leaving employment includes the causes listed below as well as the good cause reasons previously listed above: • work demands or conditions that make continued employment unreasonable, such as working without being paid on time; • acceptance of other employment by the household member or enrollment at least half-time in any recognized school, training program or institution of higher education that requires the household member to leave employment; • household member accepts a job offer which earns them at least $217.50 per week in gross, but because of circumstances beyond the household member’s control, the employment subsequently either does not materialize or results in employment that earns less than $217.50 per week in gross; and • the leaving of employment by the household member 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 when households will apply for SNAP 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 the previous employment must be considered as good cause if it is part of the pattern of that type of employment. UNAVAILABILITY OF TRANSPORTATION The client loses their means of transportation which prevents them getting to and from work. Example: A client is working; however, their car breaks down and they are not able to afford the repairs. They also have no other mode of transportation. The client lets their employer know they cannot continue to work due to lack of transportation. The client is considered to have quit, but this would be considered Good Cause. Describe the State agency's process to determine good cause if there is not an appropriate and available opening for an E&T participant. Clients participate in the SNAP Path to Work program on a voluntary basis and are not penalized for failure to participate in the program. 1/29/26, 8:19 AM State Plan MA FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-mafy26stateplan//index.html 44/167