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75 Acceptable Sources of Employment Verification • Dated pay stubs or pay statements for the immediately preceding 30 days. The pay stubs must include the employer and employee name, rate of pay, and number of hours worked. o Pay stubs showing year-to-date (YTD) can be used to calculate missing pay stubs. For income that fluctuates, more than 30 calendar days of pay stubs may be used.  For more information about calculating missing pay stubs, see Process Help Section 11.5.3. o If pay stubs from the past 30 calendar days are not representative of prospective income (see 6.4) or the parent has less than 30 calendar days of pay stubs due to new employment, the local agency must request additional verification to budget income prospectively. If additional verification is requested, but the employer refuses to provide it, the local agency may accept the submitted pay stubs and use the parent’s verbal statement of expected future hours and wages to prospectively budget income. o If the individual is classified as exempt or salaried under the Fair Labor Standards Act, the employer might not include the hours worked on the pay stubs. This is acceptable verification; the agency worker must not request further verification and no documentation of hours is required. o For caretaker parents of children in out-of-home care whose eligibility is based on their biological or adoptive parents’ income at the time they were removed from the home (see 9.2), the caretakers’ employment verification does not need to contain wages or salary information for the purpose of verifying participation in an approved activity. All other requirements, such as employer and employee name, hours worked, etc. for each type of verification listed must be met. • A completed Employer Verification of Earnings form (EVF-E) (F-10146) with the employer’s signature, number of hours of work per week, company name, and rate of pay. • An email or letter from the employer bearing the employer’s legible name, contact information and signature and includes the employee’s name, rate of pay, and hours of work. • Equifax verification received directly from Equifax or through the Federal Data Services Hub (FDSH) wage match (so long as the parent confirms the data is correct). • As a last resort, collateral contact with the employer. The agency worker must document the phone conversation in case comments including the date, time, and individual’s contact information.