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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Chapter 14

West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 15 Chapter 14 Work Requirements

o The AG member is physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as established by documented medical evidence or by reliable information provided from another identifiable source; o The employment offered is not in the client’s major field of experience. This is applicable only within the first 30 days of becoming subject to the work requirements; o The distance traveled to the employment from the AG member’s residence is unreasonable, considering the expected wage and the time and cost of commuting. Employment is not considered suitable if daily commuting time exceeds two hours per day, not including the transporting of a child to and from a childcare facility. Nor is employment considered suitable if the distance to the place of employment prohibits walking and neither public nor private transportation is available to transport the individual to the job site; Clients who move to a residence which renders the distance to the place of employment unreasonable are not subject to the work requirement penalty. This includes those who move to West Virginia from another state or country and those who move within the state; or o The working hours or nature of the employment interferes with the AG member’s religious observances, convictions or beliefs. 14.4.4 ESTABLISHING GOOD CAUSE See Section 7.3 for possible sources of verification of the reason for the quit. Verification of the reason is routinely required when the client claims good cause, except as follows. The individual must not be penalized if the individual and the Worker are both unable to obtain the needed verification because the cause for the quit resulted from circumstances that, for good reason, cannot be verified, such as a resignation from employment due to discrimination, unreasonable demands by an employer, or because the employer cannot be located. The Worker must record all case activity.