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How many attempts are made to reach out to the SNAP participant for additional information? One Two Three More than three What is the State agency's criteria for good cause? The county agency is responsible for determining good cause at any time when a SNAP work registered individual fails or refuses to comply with a work registration requirement. The county agency shall take into account the facts and circumstances, including information submitted by an employer and/or the assistance group member involved. Good cause shall include circumstances beyond the individual's control, such as, but not limited to: • illness, • illness of another assistance group member requiring the presence of the member, • an assistance group emergency, • the unavailability of transportation, • the lack of adequate child care for children who have reached age six but are under age twelve, • domestic violence. Good cause for leaving employment includes circumstance beyond the work registrant's control and also includes but is not limited to the following: • Discrimination by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, handicap, religious beliefs, national origin or political beliefs. • Work demands or conditions that render continued employment unreasonable, such as working without being paid on schedule. • Acceptance of employment by the individual, or enrollment by the individual in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education on at least a half time basis, that requires the individual to leave employment; or acceptance by any other assistance group member of employment or enrollment at least half time in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education in another county or similar political subdivision that requires the assistance group to move and thereby requires the individual to leave employment. • Resignations by persons under the age of sixty that are recognized by the employer as retirement. • Employment that becomes unsuitable, as specified in paragraph (A) of OAC 5101:4-3-12, after the acceptance of such employment. • Acceptance of a bona fide offer of employment of more than thirty hours a week or in which the weekly earnings are equivalent to the federal minimum wage multiplied by thirty hours that, because of circumstances beyond thecontrol of the individual, subsequently either does not materialize or results in employment that is not suitable. • Leaving a job in connection with patterns of employment in which workers frequently move from one employer to another such as migrant farm labor or construction work. There may be some circumstances where assistance groups will apply for SNAP benefits between jobs particularly in cases where work is not yet available at the new job site. Even though employment at the new site has not actually begun, the quitting of the previous employment is to be considered good cause when it is part of the pattern of that type of employment. 1/29/26, 9:30 AM State Plan OH FY26 - Original Submission https://dam-fns.usda.gov/sites/default/files/microsite/snapet-ohfy26stateplan//index.html 43/121