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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual Section 385.3 - Page 12 Rev. 4/2025 Requirement to Provide Information Regarding the Available E&T Services All districts must advise non-exempt SNAP individuals who are members of households containing at least one adult, with no elderly or disabled individuals, and with no earned income at their last certification or required report, of the availability of employment and training services within the district and/or region at the time of recertification. Employment and training services are not limited to SNAP employment and training. Such services include, but are not limited to, workforce services offered by the local Career Center, community-based organizations, and local education providers. The method of advising individuals of the available E&T services in the local area is left to the discretion of districts. However, as a minimum standard for meeting this requirement districts must provide the household a list of available employment and training services electronically (e.g. on a website or in an email) or in printed form. These examples may include flyers explaining local Career Center offerings, brochures on available local adult education and training resources, and contact information for local community organizations that provide employment and training services. Districts should ensure that all employment and training services information shared with individuals is updated regularly. Districts are also encouraged to frequently check the website of their local Workforce Development Boards to review any other employment and training services that may be available locally. SNAP Employment and Training Work Activities Districts may operate any work activity authorized under 18 NYCRR 385.9 that is included in a district’s biennial Temporary Assistance and SNAP Employment Plan as part of the district’s SNAP Employment and Training (SNAP E&T) program. A work registrant may be required to participate in SNAP E&T program activities for up to 30 hours weekly. The total hours of participation in an Employment & Training component for any household member individually in any month, together with any hours of participation in a work experience program, and any hours worked for compensation, must not exceed 120. A work registrant may not be required to participate in SNAP E&T work experience for more hours than the value derived from dividing the SNAP allotment by the higher of the federal or state minimum wage up to the 30-hour SNAP E&T maximum. However, individuals who are concurrently receiving TA and SNAP may be assigned to work activities up to 40 hours per week. It is important to note that SNAP recipients who participate in assigned work activities for at least 30 hours per week cannot be sanctioned for SNAP purposes but may be subject to a TA sanction in those instances where the district determines that the individual willfully and without good cause refused or failed to comply with the assigned work requirement (see Section 385.11 and 385.12 of this manual for more information). Exceptions to Certain Exemptions (Simplified SNAP Plan) Under a simplified SNAP plan provision, designed by the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to help states meet TANF participation rate requirements, New York State is authorized to include the SNAP benefit in the calculation of the maximum number of hours that a TANF recipient may participate in work experience. This authority affects TANF recipients assigned to work experience who are ordinarily exempt from SNAP work registration requirements because they are subject to and complying with TANF work requirements or because they are a caretaker of a child under the age of six years. Therefore, a SNAP caretaker