Current through Vol. 42, No. 1, September 16, 2024
(a) Per Section
273.7(a)(1) of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations (
7
C.F.R. §
273.7(a)(1)) ,
to be eligible to receive Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) food
benefits, each household member not exempt per Oklahoma Administrative Code
(OAC)
340:50-5-86
must comply with applicable work registration requirements included in (1)
through (5) of this subsection. It is the worker's responsibility to explain to
the applicant the work registration statement and each household member's work
registration status and responsibility as stated in (1) through (5) of this
subsection. Form 08MP003E, Responsibilities and Signature for Benefits,
includes a work registration statement that upon signature, registers all
household members 16 through 59 years of age required to comply with work
registration.
(1) A required work registrant
must register for work or be registered at the time of application and every 12
months after initial registration.
(2) A required work registrant must provide
the Oklahoma Department of Human Services with sufficient information regarding
his or her employment status or availability for work.
(3) A required work registrant must accept a
bona fide offer of suitable employment.
(4) A required work registrant must agree to
not voluntarily and, without good cause, quit a job of 30 hours or more per
week or reduce his or her work effort to less than 30 hours per week.
(5) When a household member is exempt from
work registration because he or she is subject to and complying with
unemployment compensation or Temporary Assistance for Needy Families work
requirements per OAC
340:50-5-86(3)
or (7), he or she must continue to comply or
be subject to failure to comply requirements per OAC
340:50-5-87.
(b)
Good cause for failure
or refusal to comply with work registration requirements. Per
7
C.F.R. §
273.7(i), a
required work registrant has good cause for failing or refusing to comply with
work registration requirements when there are circumstances beyond his or her
control, such as, but not limited to:
(1)
illness;
(2) illness of another
household member requiring the presence of the registrant;
(3) a household emergency;
(4) unavailability of transportation;
or
(5) lack of adequate child care
for children 6 through 11 years of age.
(c)
Suitable work. Any
employment offered is considered suitable:
(1) when the wage offered is at least the
highest of the applicable federal minimum wage, the applicable state minimum
wage, or 80 percent of the federal minimum wage, when neither the federal nor
state minimum wage applies;
(2)
when the employment offered is on a piece-rate basis and the average hourly
wage the employee can reasonably expect is at least equal to the applicable
hourly wages specified;
(3) when
the registrant, in order to be hired or to continue working, is not required to
join, resign from, or refrain from joining any legitimate labor
organization;
(4) when the work
offered is not at a site subject to a strike or lockout at the time of the
offer unless the strike has been enjoined under the Labor Management Relations
Act (Taft-Hartley) or an injunction has been issued under Section 10 of the
Railway Labor Act; or
(5) unless
the registrant demonstrates or the worker determines the:
(A) risk to health and safety is
unreasonable;
(B) registrant is
physically or mentally unfit to perform the employment, as documented by
medical evidence or other reliable information;
(C) employment offered within the first
30-calen-dar days of registration is not in the registrant's major field of
experience;
(D) distance from the
registrant's home to the place of employment is unreasonable based on the
expected wage and the time and cost of daily commuting. Commuting time cannot
exceed two hours daily; or
(E)
working hours or nature of the employment interferes with the registrant's
religious observations, convictions, or beliefs.
Amended at 9 Ok Reg
3843, eff 8-24-92 (emergency); Amended at 10 Ok Reg 1821, eff 5-13-93; Amended
at 18 Ok Reg 2079, eff 7-1-01; Amended at 25 Ok Reg 937, eff
6-1-08
