Oklahoma Administrative Code
Title 340 - Department of Human Services
Chapter 50 - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program
Subchapter 5 - Non-Financial Eligibility Criteria
Part 9 - WORK REGISTRATION
Section 340:50-5-94 - Penalty for voluntary quit

(1) Applicant household. When a household member of an applicant household is subject to the voluntary quit provision, the worker does not include the person in the food benefits. The person is disqualified from food benefits for a period of 90-calendar days effective from the date the remaining household members are approved for food benefits, per 7 C.F.R. § 273(j)(3)(vi). When the person subject to voluntary quit is the only member of the applicant household, the worker denies the food benefit application. The person's disqualification period starts effective the date the denial notice issues.

(2) Participating household. When the worker determines that a member of a participating household voluntarily quit a job or reduced his or her work effort without good cause after certification, the worker removes the household member from the food benefit or closes a one-person household's food benefits effective the first day of the month following the next advance-notice effective date, per Appendix B-2, Deadlines for Case Actions, and issues a 10-calendar day advance-notice. The disqualification period runs continuously for three months beginning with the month the adverse action is effective unless the household requests a fair hearing, per (4) of this Section or eligibility is reestablished, per (5) of this Section.

(3) Households with special circumstances.

(4) Fair hearings. Each household has a right to request a fair hearing to appeal a benefit denial, closure, or reduction in food benefits due to a voluntary quit determination. When the participating household's benefits are continued pending a fair hearing and the hearing decision upholds the voluntary quit determination, the disqualification period begins the first month after the hearing decision is rendered.

(5) Ending a voluntary quit disqualification. Eligibility may be reestablished during a disqualification period and the household member, when otherwise eligible, may resume participation when the member, who caused the disqualification becomes exempt from the work registration requirements, per OAC 340:50-5-86.