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• Acceptance by any other household member of employment, or enrollment at least half-time in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education in another county or similar political subdivision which requires the household to move and, thereby, requires the individual to leave employment. • Resignations by persons under the age of 60 which are recognized by the employer as retirement. • Resigning from a job that becomes unsuitable after the acceptance of such employment. Employment is considered suitable unless: o The wage offered is less than the highest of the applicable Federal minimum wage, the applicable State minimum wage, or eighty percent (80%) of the Federal minimum wage if neither the Federal nor the State minimum wage is applicable. o The employment offered is on a piece-rate basis and the average hourly yield the employee can reasonably be expected to earn is less than the applicable hourly wages specified above. • Acceptance of a job offer of more than 30 hours a week or in which the weekly earnings are equivalent to the Federal minimum wage multiplied by 30, that because of circumstances beyond the individual’s control, subsequently either does not materialize or results in employment of less than 30 hours a week or weekly earnings of less than 30 multiplied by the Federal minimum hourly wage, or training wage if the individual is subject to the training wage. • Leaving a job 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 where households apply for Food Stamp 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 with good cause if it is part of the pattern of that type of employment. The State defines Voluntary Quit as: Any individual in a household has voluntarily quit a job when within 30 days before application or at any time while receiving benefits, that individual: • Voluntarily and without good cause, quits a job of 30 hours a week or more. • Leaves employment unannounced. • Does not return to work. • Reduces his or her work effort voluntarily and without good cause, and, after the reduction, is working less than 30 hours per week. Voluntary quit procedures do not apply to individuals who: • End self-employment. • Resign a job at the employer’s demand. • Are currently on strike. o Exception: Any local, state, or federal government employee who loses their job because of participation in a strike is considered to have voluntarily quit. • Are exempt from work registration requirements o Exception: Individuals exempt from work registration due to employment of 30 hours per week, or due to weekly earnings that equal or exceed 30 times the federal minimum wage, are not exempt from voluntary quit policy. For voluntary quit purposes, a job must involve either of the following: • 30 hours or more per week. • Weekly earnings of at least 30 multiplied by the Federal minimum wage, or by the training wage if the individual is subject to it. o Exception: If the individual reduces his or her work hours to less than 30 a week but continues to earn weekly wages that exceed the Federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours, the individual remains exempt from Program work requirements, and the individual is not considered to have voluntarily quit his or her job Describe the State agency's process to determine good cause if there is not an appropriate and available opening for an E&T participant. 1/29/26, 9:16 AM State Plan NH FY26 - Amendment 1 https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-nhfy26stateplan//index.html 31/59