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West Virginia Income Maintenance Manual Page 16 Chapter 3 Eligibility Determination Groups
• Regains eligibility after meeting the ABAWD work requirement and is in his additional three-month period, which must be consecutive months. For detailed information for each of the bullets above, see below. 3.2.1.D.3 ABAWD Work Requirement All SNAP work requirements in Chapter 14 also apply to ABAWDs. An ABAWD must meet the following ABAWD work requirements, in addition to the SNAP work requirements in Chapter 14, to be eligible. All work hours must be verified, including in-kind services and unpaid work. See Verification Requirements for Work Requirements found in Chapter 7. As long as an ABAWD is exempt as found in the exemptions below or meets any of the requirements below, he may receive SNAP benefits, if otherwise eligible. Otherwise, he is ineligible once he has received SNAP benefits for three months without being exempt or meeting the ABAWD work requirement. The three months need not be consecutive and includes SNAP benefits received from another state. The ABAWD work requirement is met by either: • Working at least 20 hours per week or 80 hours a month; • Participating in a work program such as, but not limited to: WorkForce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Title I programs or a refugee resettlement program, at least 20 hours per week or 80 hours per month; or • Participating in a SNAP E&T program for the required number of hours. Individuals who do not meet an exemption listed below and who are not participating in another program or working 20 hours per week or 80 hours in a month should be asked if they would like to be referred to the SNAP E&T program. An ABAWD cannot be assigned any countable month(s) prior to being screened for exemptions. If an ABAWD experiences a change of circumstance during the certification period that results in the loss of their exemption, a worker must address the change at next redetermination. While a client may choose not to cooperate with the West Virginia’s voluntary SNAP E&T program, a client may not opt out of the ABAWD work requirement. A client may choose to cooperate with SNAP E&T at any time.