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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES SNAP EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING

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4. The total amount of time spent each month by a participant in a SNAP E&T work program, combined with work for compensation, is unlimited. However, the State must provide Worker’s Compensation coverage for a maximum of 120 hours a month.

d. Assignment Criteria

Each assignment must take the prior training, experience, skills and employment goal(s) of the participant into consideration to determine whether:

• The individual needs additional job skills or

• Work experience will yield a job reference or the development of good work habits or job skills.

e. Limitations

The use of the Work Experience component is limited by the following:

1. Participants must not be required to use their personal resources to pay participation costs.

2. Participants in the Work Experience component must not displace persons currently employed or be placed in established, unfilled positions.

Participants must not perform tasks that would have been undertaken by current employees or which would have the effect of reducing the work hours of paid employees. Work Experience participants cannot be placed in the position of workers who are on sick leave, annual leave, leave without pay, or any other granted leave with or without pay, as that would be an act of displacement.

3. Participants must not be assigned to projects that require that they travel unreasonable distances from their homes or remain away from their homes overnight without their consent. A round trip more than two hours from the participant’s home to the work site is considered an unreasonable distance in any situation. The transportation time determined reasonable must be relative to the number of hours being worked in a day.

f. Worker’s Compensation

For Worker’s Compensation purposes only, the Virginia Department of Social Services is considered the individual’s employer. The Virginia Department of Social Services provides coverage for all Work Experience participants for the hours of participation that are mandated. If a claim must be filed, the following procedures will be followed:

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