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

Section 385.9- Page 16 Rev. 4/2025 In addition to those components noted above, work experience will include unpaid internships that are part of any non-graduate student’s education curriculum. Work experience participants must be supervised by a work site supervisor/sponsor, or other responsible party, on an ongoing basis, no less frequently than daily. • As established in SSL 336-c, the maximum hours an individual may be required to participate in work experience is limited to the number of hours derived by dividing the household’s TA deficit amount (from the TA budget) and SNAP allotment amount for the respective month by the higher of the federal or applicable State minimum wage. To calculate the maximum number of hours weekly the monthly from the calculation described above would be further divided by 4.333 and rounded down to the nearest whole number to calculate the number of hours weekly. • An individual participating in work experience for the maximum number of hours permitted by the above limitation will be considered to have fulfilled the 20 core hours of work participation (or 30 for two-parent households or 50 for two-parent households receiving federally subsidized child care) required for participation rate purposes even if the resulting hours of participation are less than would otherwise be required. If an individual is required to work more hours than the core work hour (i.e., 30, 35 or 55) to count toward the work participation rate, the individual must participate in another countable work activity to fulfill those hours for work participation rate purposes. • Districts are authorized to assign individuals to additional work activities that are not limited to the minimum wage calculation for up to 40 hours weekly unless the individual is unable to work such hours due to medical or other work limitations. • New York State statute requires that work experience placements are provided workers’ compensation coverage. • Hours of participation in work experience may include the actual hours that an individual is engaged in an on-site background check or assessment to determine an individual’s suitability for a particular work experience assignment. • Any work component that is required as part of a treatment program for an individual participating in a residential treatment program and which is consistent with the definition of work experience may be reported as participation in work experience for those actual hours documented by the district or treatment provider that the individual participated in such work component. On the Job Training (OJT) - Training in a public or private sector employment setting during which the participant receives work-essential paid training while they are engaged in productive work that provides the knowledge and skills essential to attain full and adequate performance of the job. Supervision of recipients in OJT will be provided in a manner determined appropriate by the employer.