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34 the disqualification period as well as information about avoiding or ending the disqualification, must be specified; xiii. a notice of action taken in the SNAP when a member of the applicant household has without good cause failed to comply with work registration requirements: the particular act of noncompliance, the proposed period of disqualification, that the individual or household may reapply in order to participate at the end of the disqualification period as well as information about ending the disqualification, must be specified; and, xiv. a disqualification of a household from the SNAP based upon the voluntary termination of employment by the head of household: the proposed period of disqualification, the household's right to reapply in order to resume participation at the end of the disqualification period as well as information about ending the disqualification, must be specified.

2. except in the case of a denial, the effective date of the action; 3. except in the case of an acceptance of an application for a covered program or service, the specific reasons for the action; 4. the specific laws and/or regulations upon which the action is based; 5. the applicant's or recipient's right to request an agency conference and fair hearing; 6. the procedure for requesting an agency conference or fair hearing, including an address and telephone number where a request for a fair hearing may be made and the time limits within which the request for a fair hearing must be made; 7. an explanation that a request for a conference is not a request for a fair hearing and that a separate request for a fair hearing must be made. Furthermore, that a request for a conference does not entitle one to aid continuing, and that a right to aid continuing only arises pursuant to a request for a fair hearing; 8. when the agency action or proposed action is a reduction, discontinuance, restriction or suspension of public assistance, medical assistance, SNAP benefits or services, the circumstances under which public assistance, medical assistance, SNAP benefits or services will be continued or reinstated until the fair hearing decision is issued; that a fair hearing must be requested separately from a conference; and a statement that when only an agency conference is requested and there is no specific request for a fair hearing, there is no right to continued public assistance, medical assistance, SNAP benefits or services; and that participation in an agency conference does not affect the right to request a fair hearing; 9. the right of the applicant or recipient to review the applicant's or recipient's case record and to obtain copies of documents which the agency will present into evidence at the hearing and other documents necessary for the applicant or recipient to prepare for the fair hearing at no cost. The notice must contain an address and telephone number where the applicant or recipient can obtain additional information about: the applicant's or recipient's case; how to request a fair hearing; access to the case file; and/or obtaining copies of documents; 10. the right to representation by legal counsel, a relative, friend or other person or to represent oneself, and the right to bring witnesses to the fair hearing and to question witnesses at the hearing;