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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual Section 385.3 - Page 14 Rev. 4/2025 manager or other district/employment services provider worker for the participant to report on progress or seek additional guidance as needed before the next regularly scheduled contact. Supervised job search activities must have a direct link to increasing the employment opportunities of individuals engaged in the activity. Districts may require an individual to participate in a supervised job search for a specific period of time that, in its estimation, will provide participants a reasonable opportunity to find suitable employment. However, the district should not establish a continuous, year-round supervised job search requirement. If a reasonable period of supervised job search does not result in employment, placing the individual in a training or education component to improve job skills will be more productive. The number of contacts required of job search participants and the frequency of how often individuals are required to report job search outcomes and activities is determined by the district. Districts describe their local procedures for how the job search activity will be supervised and tracked, including the frequency of monitoring the participant’s job search efforts, in Section 5 of the district’s biennial TA and SNAP Employment Plan. Please note: Job search that does not meet the definition of supervised job search as described in this section is allowed as a subsidiary activity of another E&T component, so long as the job search activity comprises less than half of the total time spent in the component. Subsidized Employment Subsidized employment is an allowable SNAP E&T program activity, and SNAP E&T funds may be expended on allowable costs associated with wages through a subsidized employment program, in accordance with applicable SNAP laws and regulations, as well as the federal cost principles in title 2 of the CFR. Districts and/or contracted providers who intend to use SNAP E&T funds to implement a subsidized employment program must have agreements in place with employers to provide actual training to SNAP participants, and a plan to move participants into unsubsidized employment as a result of the subsidized employment experience, with either the same employer or with another employer. Subsidized employment programs with the exception of registered apprenticeships should last six months or less to allow an individual to move promptly into regular employment and should be limited to once every twelve months per SNAP participant unless the participant had dropped out of the activity due to no fault of their own (e.g., because of illness or a provider determination). Districts that are interested in operating a program where wages are subsidized with SNAP E&T funds must submit a proposal to OTDA for review and approval prior to implementing such a program. The proposal must provide the number of participants, the anticipated costs, partner organizations and their role (if applicable), a description of the training that will occur while the participant is engaged in the program and projected outcomes. Subsidized employment positions may be full or part-time, but full-time positions are preferred. Income recipients earn from such subsidized placements is subject to the same consideration as other income for purposes of eligibility and benefit determination in accordance with 7 CFR