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• Letter from employer, • Letter from the individual’s health care practitioner, • Letter from a household member’s health care practitioner, • Letter from the court, • Copy of jury notice, or • Letter from the school where the individual’s child attends. Determination If the district determines the individual’s failure to comply was willful and without good cause but the individual is willing to avoid a SNAP E&T sanction through demonstrated compliance, the district should re- engage the individual and may require up to 10 days of demonstrated compliance consistent with procedures outlined in the district’s biennial Employment Plan approved by OTDA. Districts are required to provide participant reimbursements including childcare and transportation services that are necessary to enable the participant to demonstrate compliance with SNAP work requirements. Describe the State agency's process to determine good cause if there is not an appropriate and available opening for an E&T participant. Guidance outlined in 21-ADM-05 informs districts of the requirement to determine that good cause exists when there is not an appropriate and available opening for a SNAP E&T participant. Districts are responsible for operating a SNAP E&T program that can accommodate all mandatory SNAP E&T participants. In situations where there is not an appropriate and available opening for a mandatory SNAP E&T participant in the SNAP E&T program, the district must determine that the participant has good cause for failure to comply with the mandatory SNAP E&T requirement. If the case manager at a contracted SNAP E&T provider determines there is not an appropriate and available opening, the case manager must inform the appropriate district staff, who can then determine if the participant has good cause. Good cause for a lack of an appropriate or available opening in the SNAP E&T program ends when the district identifies an appropriate and available opening and informs the participant. In accordance with 7 CFR 273.24(b)(2), an ABAWD who receives good cause for failure to comply with the mandatory SNAP E&T requirement, must also receive good cause for failure to comply with the ABAWD work requirement, with one exception. An ABAWD may receive good cause for lack of an appropriate and available opening in SNAP E&T for the mandatory SNAP 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 SNAP E&T. It is expected the ABAWD will seek out other opportunities even if there is not an appropriate and available opening in SNAP E&T. Districts implementing ABAWD requirements must still offer a slot in a qualifying ABAWD work activity to permit ABAWDs to remain eligible beyond the three-month time limit. 1/29/26, 9:29 AM State Plan NY FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-nyfy26stateplan//index.html 43/312