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VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL SERVICES SNAP EMPLOYMENT & TRAINING
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3. Duration of SNAP E&T Services
SNAP E&T social/supportive services may be provided for as long as the individual needs the service to participate in a SNAP E&T component.
F. VOLUNTEERS
SNAP household members who are exempt from the work registration requirement may volunteer to participate in SNAP E&T.
1. Agencies may, at their option, permit volunteers to participate in a SNAP E&T component.
2. The same assessment procedures that apply to ABAWD participants will apply to volunteers.
3. Social Services reimbursements/payments for transportation and daycare may only be made for expenses that are reasonably necessary and directly related to participation in the SNAP E&T program.
Example
A volunteer works part-time and has been assigned to the training component for 5 hours a week. Child day care services may only be provided for the 5 hours that the individual participates in the Training activity.
G. CHANGES/TRANSFERS
1. The SNAP E&T worker must notify the BPS of any changes in the participant’s situation that may affect the SNAP benefits or the individual’s exemption status. This notification must be in writing and must occur within five working days of the change. The Communication Form must be used for this purpose.
2. SNAP cases may be transferred from one Virginia locality to another. SNAP E&T case transfer procedures follow.
• When a SNAP E&T case transfers from one SNAP E&T locality to another SNAP E&T locality, daily alerts are generated to the SNAP E&T worker in the sending locality and to the transfer in caseload in the receiving locality • The sending SNAP E&T locality will need to close all open SNAP E&T enrollments for the SNAP case with the SNAP E&T Closure Status value = “05” for Transferred. • In the SNAP E&T database, the history for this enrollment record and its assessments and employments will show this sending FIPS. • The SNAP E&T worker in the receiving FIPS will not be able to open an enrollment record on the transferred in case until the sending agency SNAP E&T worker has closed the enrollment record.
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