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How many attempts are made to reach out to the SNAP participant for additional information? One Two Three More than three What is the State agency's criteria for good cause? Good Cause Reasons for Leaving a Job • Being discriminated against because of your race, color, national origin, sex (gender identity and sexual orientation), religious creed, age, disability, or political beliefs. • Not being paid on schedule or being required to work overtime and not being paid for the overtime. • Taking another job as long as the new job is thirty (30) or more hours per week or the job pays federal minimum wage multiplied by thirty (30) hours. • If the household has to move because a FNS household member is going to school half time, in a training program, or college. • If you are under the age of 60 and leave a job and the employer sees this as retirement. • Accepting a job of thirty (30) hours or more per week but due to no fault of your own, the job does not take place or is not a suitable job (see below). • Often going from one employer to another because you are a migrant farm worker or a construction worker. • Things not in your control. This can include your illness or the illness of another family member needing your care. • A household emergency, no transportation, or the lack of good childcare for children who have reached age 6 but are under 12. Good cause regarding whether a job is not suitable are as follows: • The job pays less than the federal minimum wage, State minimum wage, or training wage, whichever is highest. • The job is on a piece rate basis and the average hourly yield is less than the minimum federal, State, or training hourly wage. • To keep your job, you have to join, resign from, or not join any legal labor organization. • The work offered is at a site subject to a strike or lockout at the time of the offer. • The degree of risk to health and safety is unreasonable. • The member is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment. A doctor has to prove this. • The job offered within the first thirty (30) days of registration is not in the members' major field of experience. • The distance from the member's home to the job is unreasonable due to pay, time, and cost of commuting. Distance is unreasonable when commuting is more than two hours per day. This does not include the transportation of a child to day care. A job is also not suitable if neither public nor private transportation is available and walking distance to the job is more than two miles round trip. 1/29/26, 8:17 AM State Plan NC FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-ncfy26stateplan//index.html 34/218