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WORK EXPERIENCE COMPONENT: APPRENTICESHIP Description of the component. Provide a summary of the activities and services. Offers participants a combination of on-the-job training and related instruction to improve employability. Participants move promptly into regular or private employment. Apprenticeship is a qualifying component. Contains planned, structured learning experience that takes place in a workplace, and operated for a limited time. Is performed in private for-profit sector, the non-profit sector, or the public sector. Follows the Fair Labor standards ACT (FLSA) if there is an employee/employer relationship. Participants learn the practical and theoretical aspects of a skilled occupation. Can be sponsored by individual employer, joint employers and labor groups, and/or employer associations. WBLA includes apprenticeships such as: -- Electrician -- Plumber -- HVAC systems The participant will participate in a minimum average of 12 weekly hours of allowable SNAP E&T activities or 48 hours in a 30-day period not to exceed 120 hours in any one month. To maintain an ABAWD exemption due to E&T participation the participant will complete 80 hours in a 30-day period not to exceed 120 hours in any one month. If an ABAWD is in both a qualifying and non-qualifying component, the majority of the 80 hours must be from qualifying component activities. Is this component subsidized by SNAP E&T? Subsidized Unsubsidized Both subsidized and unsubsidized Indicate the Target Population this component will serve. Select all that apply. ABAWDs Homeless Returning citizens (aka: ex-offenders) Single parents Students Those that reside in rural areas Underemployed Veterans 1/29/26, 8:17 AM State Plan MT FY26 - Amendment 1 https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-mtfy26stateplan//index.html 68/103