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BEM 233B 11 of 12 FAILURE TO MEET EMPLOYMENT REQUIREMENTS: FAP BPB 2025-011 4-1-2025
BRIDGES ELIGIBILITY MANUAL STATE OF MICHIGAN DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH & HUMAN SERVICES
Work Not Familiar In the first 30-calendar days after determined a mandatory FAP participant, the only employment offered is outside the individual’s major field of experience. REESTABLISHING FAP ELIGIBILITY A noncompliant individual must serve a minimum one-month or six- month disqualification period unless one of the criteria for ending a disqualification early exists. End the disqualification early if the noncompliant individual either: • Complies with work assignments for a cash program. • Obtains comparable employment in salary or hours to the job which was lost. • Meets a deferral reason other than unemployment benefit (UB) application/recipient; see BEM 230B, DEFERRALS. If the individual has met any of the criteria above after a disqualification has actually taken effect, restore benefits beginning the month after the noncompliant individual reports meeting the criteria. Example: A mandatory FAP recipient reports a job quit on March 28 without good cause. The adverse action to disqualify the noncompliant individual takes effect on April 13. The noncompliant individual reports getting a comparable job on April 25. Since the disqualification doesn’t actually take effect until May 1, and the individual has met one of the criteria for ending a disqualification early, she/he should receive FAP benefits for May. If the noncompliant individual did not report a new job until May 1, the FAP benefits could not be restored until the 1st of June. If the noncompliant individual does not meet the criteria above for ending a disqualification early, a compliance test must be completed before eligibility is regained. In addition, the minimum disqualification period must be served. If the disqualification caused FAP closure, and all eligibility criteria for FAP eligibility are met, open the case effective the latter of: • The date the individual agreed to comply.