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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual

Section 385.12- Page 16 Rev. 3/2022 household and the individual is determined by the district to be exempt from participation in SNAP work requirements. For example, if an individual subject to a three-month sanction beginning 6/1/19 notifies the district that they are physically unfit for employment on 7/10/19. The individual is added back to the household’s SNAP budget and benefits re-determined (provided the individual is otherwise eligible) from 8/1/19 so long as the household requests the individual be added to the household and the individual cooperates with verifying the impairment. The district can assume that by reporting the change and notifying the district that the individual is impaired, the household has requested the disqualified individual to be added to the household. Districts should carefully review work registration exemptions included in 18 NYCRR 385.3 (a)(1) and be aware that several exemptions from the SNAP work requirements are not exemptions for TA. For example, an individual responsible for the care of a dependent child under the age of six or an individual required to register for work as part of the unemployment insurance compensation process is exempt from SNAP work requirements but not necessarily exempt from TA work requirements. In addition to the examples provided above, a TANF applicant or recipient subject to and complying with any work activity assignment made under TA is exempt from SNAP requirements and may reestablish SNAP eligibility during the duration of the SNAP sanction period. In this instance the district can assume that by participating in an assigned TANF work activity, the household has requested the disqualified individual to be added to the SNAP case for the household. For example, an individual subject to a three-month SNAP sanction beginning 6/1/2019 begins complying with a TANF work assignment on 7/16/2019. The individual is added back to the household’s SNAP budget and benefits re-determined beginning 8/1/2019 (provided the individual is otherwise eligible for SNAP). The district can assume that by participating in an assigned TANF work activity, the household has requested the disqualified individual to be added to the household.