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Food Stamps Work Requirements: What You Need to Know

Work requirements for people receiving nutrient stamps were put back in place in Pennsylvania on March 1, 2016, afterward the federal government declared that the massive recession that begin in 2008 was finally over.

Here is what y'all need to know when applying for or maintaining your SNAP benefits:

Many athletic adults will have to be working to receive food stamps for more than 3 months.

Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) who are non meeting federally divers Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) piece of work requirements will only be eligible for those benefits ("food stamps") for 3 months in a iii-year menses. If you see the work requirements yous can go on receiving nutrient stamps.

Who is in the able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) category?

The food stamps work requirements will apply to y'all if you are between the ages of 18-49, practise not have a physical or mental disability that would forestall y'all from working, and are non caring for a child or incapacitated household member.

Are there exceptions to the SNAP work requirements?

Yes! Nutrient stamps piece of work requirements will non apply to you if you are:

Aged 17 or younger, or aged 50 or older
Mentally or physically "unfit" for work
The mental or physical condition(s) must be documented and signed by a licensed medical practitioner unless you are eligible for SSI, social security disability, Medicaid disability, VA needs-based pension payments, or other government benefits due to an disability to work.
Living with whatever child in your SNAP household (does not have to be your own child)
Caring for an ill or incapacitated household member or relative
Meaning
In a drug or alcohol handling program
Receiving or have applied for Unemployment Insurance
Expecting to return to piece of work within lx days
Enrolled equally a pupil at to the lowest degree half-time
A victim of domestic violence
Living in an area that is exempt. In Allegheny Canton the only exempt areas are McKeesport, Penn Hills, and West Mifflin.
Homeless
- Lacks a fixed and regular nighttime residence OR
- Their primary nighttime residence is
  - — a shelter (intended to provide temporary living accommodations)
  - — an institution that provides temporary residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized
  - — a temporary accommodation in the residence of another individual ("temporary" is divers as no longer than xc days in one specific residence)
  - — a public or private place non designed for sleeping – parks, benches, etc.

What are the SNAP work requirements?

Able-bodied but jobless adults without children or a disability (ABAWD) must either be working or participating in a job training program at least xx hours per week (an average of lxxx hours per month), or volunteering with a community service provider for a certain number of hours (see beneath for details and required number of hours) to continue receiving nutrient stamps for more than 3 months. You may too do a combination of work, piece of work program, and community service activities to meet the 20 hours per week requirement.

If I am in the ABAWD category, how can I make sure to keep my SNAP benefits?

Work Programs:

If y'all are working but are working less than 20 hours per calendar week, talk to your employer to run across if you can increment your piece of work hours. You lot tin also participate in an eligible job training or work program for at least 20 hours per week. You lot can also combine work hours or hours in a job training programme with community service to meet the 20 hour requirement. If yous are in the ABAWD category, talk with your PA Department of Human Services (DHS) caseworker to acquire more about your options.

Pedagogy:
Y'all tin ask your caseworker well-nigh enrolling in the KEYS program to encounter yourwork requirement. KEYS is a program at community colleges that tin can include GED classes, non-credit certification programs, or higher level courses, and provides support throughout your enrollment.

Customs Service (or "Workfare"):
Volunteer at an eligible non-profit or customs organisation to "work for benefits." The required hours are found past dividing your total SNAP do good by the state minimum wage of $7.25/hour. For case, if you are receiving the maximum corporeality of nutrient stamps — $194 for a unmarried person — you will demand to serve an average of 26 hours per month ($194 / $7.25 = 26 hours per month or about 7 hours per week. You can employ the handy calculator on this page to figure out how many hours of community service you would need to practice based on your benefit level.) You must requite your DHS caseworker documentation of your customs service fourth dimension.

Just Harvest in partnership with 2-ane-1 of United Style of Allegheny County has put together a network of not-turn a profit organizations that volition host people needing to do community service to encounter the ABAWD piece of work requirement. >> Find a volunteer position.

Is at that place help with things like transportation and clothing for people required to do customs service?

Aye. The Department of Human Services (DHS) tin give y'all Special Allowances (SPAL's) to help you meet the requirement. SPAL's include things similar: money for transportation (public and individual), habiliment (if specific clothing is necessary for the work programme), and supplies, books, or tools needed for didactics, work, or community service. These allowances must be requested and approved before their purchase, and verification (receipts) must be provided.