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NON-EDUCATION, NON-WORK COMPONENT: WORKFARE Description of the component. Provide a summary of the activities and services. In New York State Workfare is referred to as work experience. The work experience program is designed to improve the employability of participants. It provides participants with an opportunity to acquire training, knowledge, work habits, and work references necessary to obtain and retain employment. Work experience may be combined with other education, training, or job search activities. Participants will only be assigned to a work experience assignment at a public or private nonprofit agency. Participants are covered by appropriate federal and State standards of health, safety and working conditions and necessary workers’ compensation coverage is provided. Work experience assignments shall serve a useful public purpose. Work experience placements shall not result in displacement of any currently employed worker or loss of position including partial displacement such as a reduction in the hours of non-overtime work, wages, or employment benefits. Work experience placements shall not be made at a worksite where regular employees are on a legal strike against the employer or are being subjected to a lockout by the employer. Work experience may include voluntary, participant-initiated engagements in equivalent work experience activities that are self-initiated by SNAP recipients. These placements must serve a useful public purpose and also provide the ability for participants to acquire training, knowledge, work habits, and work references that can help individuals secure paid employment. An assignment to work experience in accordance with the provisions of this plan is an appropriate SNAP E&T assignment and is comparable to a workfare assignment made in accordance with Section 20 of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 USC 2029). The maximum number of hours of work experience assigned each month is determined by dividing the sum of the household’s TA (if applicable) and SNAP benefits by the higher of the federal or State minimum wage. This is a calculation of the number of allowable hours and does not mean that the individual is receiving a wage for the performance of such activities. Work experience includes unpaid internships that are a part of a non-graduate student’s curriculum (if the internship is approved by the district according to 18 NYCRR § 385.9 and the district’s Biennial Employment Plan), regardless of whether the nongraduate education program is approved. Such positions would be required of all students to fulfill the education requirements and not a requirement due to the receipt of PA. 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 72/312