Instructions For Form Sna-1027a - Special Needs Assistant (Sna) Apointment Form printable pdf download

SNA-1027A FORPD (12-17)

ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF ECONOMIC SECURITY

Workforce Development Administration

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Employment and Training (SNA E&T) Program

WORK FOCUS

The purpose of the SNA E&T Program is to improve the employability of household members through actual work experience

and/or training, enabling individuals to move promptly into suitable unsubsidized employment. It is designed to place emphasis on

financial independence through employment. The guiding principles of the “Work Focus” are:



People are better off working than receiving Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) benefits.

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Adults who receive SNAP benefits who can work, must work.

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The best way to succeed in the labor market is to enter it.

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Activities should promote employment at the earliest opportunity, with the labor market as the initial test of employability.

WORK REQUIREMENTS

SNAP recipients subject to the federal work requirements are mandated, as a condition of eligibility, to participate in work related

activities through the SNA E&T Program. Federal work requirements:



Participate in the SNA E&T Program work activities.

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Provide information to determine employment status and availability to work.

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Report to an employer when referred by the SNA E&T Program or a provider/agency working with the SNA E&T Program.

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Accept a bona fide offer of suitable employment; and

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Do not voluntarily quit a job of 30 or more hours per week or reduce work hours to less than 30 hours per week without

good cause.

WORK ACTIVITIES

SNA E&T participants are required to participate in specific work related activities for a minimum of 20 hours averaged per week

during a month. The work activities included in the SNA E&T Program are:



Job Search – an intensive structured activity in which participants are required to actively look for employment.

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Job Readiness – focuses on providing skills to the participant that will prepare them in obtaining and maintaining

employment.

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Education and/or Training which includes:

♦

Vocational Training – designed to improve the employability of participants by providing training in a skill or trade

allowing the participant to move directly into employment.

♦

High School Equivalency Diploma – skills taught include, but are not limited to improving written and/or oral

communication, increasing self-esteem and preparing for the GED exam.

♦

English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) – participants receive instruction to improve written and/or oral

communication skills in order to compete in the labor market.

♦

Remedial Education – provides participants basic literacy skills or other basic education.



Work Experience – any unpaid work performed in the public or private sector that is meant to improve or to update or gain

skills, develop good work habits and establish a recent work history of the participant.



Unsubsidized Employment – all full or part-time employment with wages paid totally by the employer.

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Community Service – unpaid activities in the public or private non-profit sector that are for the good of the community.

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Registered Apprenticeship – Individuals learn how to do a task by performing it on the job and also learn why it is done that

way through related technical instruction.

PENALTIES/DISQUALIFICATIONS

Each month an individual fails or refuses to comply with the SNA E&T Program requirements without a good reason; the

household may lose all or part of its SNAP benefits. Progressive penalties/disqualifications will apply as follows:

Lead Participant

Non-Lead Participant

The individual may loss

The household may lose:



SNAP benefits for 1 month for the 1

noncompliance;



All SNAP benefits for 1 month for the 1

noncompliance;



SNAP benefits for 3 months for the 2

noncompliance;



All SNAP benefits for 3 months for the 2

noncompliance;



SNAP benefits for 6 months for the 3

and all months of



All SNAP benefits for 6 months for the 3

and all months of

noncompliance after that.

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Instructions For Form Sna-1027a - Special Needs Assistant (Sna) Apointment Form

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