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NYS Office of Temporary and Disability Assistance- TA and SNAP Employment Policy Manual Section 385.3 - Page 26 Rev. 4/2025 limit is necessary to ensure that the number of exclusions used each month during the quarter is accurately reported to USDA. Tracking an Individual’s Compliance with the ABAWD Requirement Districts are required to monitor compliance with the ABAWD requirement on a monthly basis and take timely action in those instances where the district has determined that the ABAWD has received SNAP benefits for 3 months in a 36-month period, is otherwise subject to the ABAWD requirement and, based on the information available to the district at the time when the case record is reviewed, is not meeting the ABAWD requirement. Districts must monitor and track an individual’s compliance with the ABAWD requirement and issue an NOAA before the end of the 3rd month of SNAP benefits to inform the SNAP household that an ABAWD is ineligible for SNAP benefits because they are subject to, but not meeting the ABAWD requirement. Districts should use the ABAWD Tracking Report, which can be accessed through Cognos, to track the number of months an ABAWD did not meet the ABAWD requirement while receiving SNAP benefits in a 36-month period. Additional information regarding the ABAWD Tracking Report can be found in 16 GIS TA/DC030. OTDA recommends that districts limit SNAP certification periods for households that include an ABAWD to no more than six months. Districts must verify hours of work for ABAWDs at certification, recertification, and as needed if a change is reported. ABAWDs are required to tell the district if their work hours go below 20 hours weekly/80 hours monthly within 10 days after the end of that month. Districts must establish procedures for monitoring an ABAWD’s ongoing participation in work activities, such as education and training and work experience, or the combination of work and work activities. In accordance with 7 CFR 273.24(b)(2), an ABAWD who receives good cause for failure to comply with the mandatory E&T requirement, must also receive good cause for failure to comply with the ABAWD requirement, with one exception. An ABAWD may receive good cause for a lack of an appropriate and available opening in E&T for the mandatory E&T requirement, but this form of good cause does not extend to the ABAWD requirement. This is because the ABAWD has other ways to meet the ABAWD requirement outside of E&T. It is expected the ABAWD will seek out other opportunities even if there is not an appropriate and available opening in E&T. Districts implementing ABAWD requirements that receive an additional allocation of federal pledge funds to serve ABAWDs must still offer a slot in a qualifying ABAWD work activity to permit ABAWDs to remain eligible beyond the three-month time limit. An ABAWD who would have met the ABAWD work requirement through working (paid or unpaid), participating in a work program, a combination of working and participating in a work program, or through a work experience program, but missed some hours for good cause, would be considered to have fulfilled the work requirement if the absence from work, the work program, or the work experience program is temporary. Good cause includes circumstances beyond the individual’s control, such as, but not limited to, illness, illness of another household