SNAP sanctions for failure to comply with employment programs.

(1) An applicant who is required to participate in work activities who, without good cause, fails to comply with the requirements of this section shall be denied participation in SNAP until such time as he/she complies with SNAP work requirements as determined by the social services district or documents an exemption from SNAP work requirements consistent with section 385.3 of this Part. This provision does not apply in the case of a voluntary quit or a voluntary reduction in work effort without good cause, as described in section 385.13 of this Part, by a SNAP applicant who is subject to SNAP work requirements.

(2) The needs of a recipient who is required to participate in work activities and who has, willfully and without good cause, failed to comply with the requirements of this section will not be considered in determining the needs of his/her household for SNAP for the following time periods:

(i) for the first instance of willful failure to comply without good cause, a period of one month and thereafter until the individual complies with the requirements of this section as determined by the social services district;

(ii) for the second instance of willful failure to comply without good cause, a period of three months and thereafter until the individual complies with the requirements of this section as determined by the social services district; and

(iii) for the third and all subsequent instances of willful failure to comply without good cause, a period of six months and thereafter until the individual complies with the requirements of this section as determined by the social services district.

(4) Eligibility may be reestablished during the disqualification period if the participating household requests that the disqualified individual be added to the household, and the disqualified individual becomes exempt from the work requirement pursuant to section 385.3 of this Part.

(5) A disqualification for noncompliance with work requirements may be ended, after the time periods specified in paragraph (2) of this subdivision, if the disqualified individual complies with the requirement which caused the disqualification or an alternate work assignment as determined by the social services district.