Located in:
- Employment and Training Programs Under the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Programs Authorized Under Section 6(d)(4) of the Food and Nutrition Act of 2008 (7 U.S.C. 2015(d)(4)))
- a. General RequirementsThe State agency must prepare and submit an Employment and Training (E&T) Plan to its appropriate Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) Regional Office. The E&T Plan must be available for public inspection at the State agency headquarters. A State agency may include its plan for the SNAP E&T program in a Combined Plan under WIOA but will require FNS approval prior to implementation and must continue to make a copy of the plan available for public inspection. If a State includes SNAP E&T in a Combined Plan under WIOA, the State agency will detail the following for each year covered by the Combined Plan:
- a. General Requirements
a. 9. The Method the State Agency Uses to Prevent Work Registrants from Being Counted Twice Within a Federal Fiscal Year. if the State Agency Universally Work Registers All Snap Applicants, This Method Must Specify How the State Agency Excludes Those Exempt from Work Registration Under 7 C.f.r. §273.7(b)(1). if the State Agency Work Registers Nonexempt Participants Whenever a New Application is Submitted, This Method Must Also Specify How the State Agency Excludes Those Participants Who May Have Already Been Registered Within the Past 12 Months as Specified Under 7 C.f.r. §273.7(a)(1)(i);
Current Narrative:
On the last workday of September each year an analysis program is conducted to identify and count all certified individuals who are mandatory work registrants on that date. In non-LaJET parishes a date is system-generated at this time to distinguish on-going registrants from new registrants added during the fiscal year. In LaJET parishes, ongoing work registrants also have a system-generated date. If a case is closed but reopened prior to the expiration of the date, program editing disallows the entry of the mandatory work referent code, thereby prohibiting a recipient from being labeled as a mandatory work referent more than once per year. There is, however, a re-referral code that would be appropriate in this situation. The re-referred recipient would appear on the listing sent to the LaJET Service Provider as a re-referral rather than a new mandatory referent.
In summary, there are LaJET date and code columns and work registration date and code columns for each SNAP recipient. LaJET and work registration codes are programmed to coordinate with one another. The LaJET date is the month and year the recipient is coded as a mandatory referent. The work registration date is one year greater than the LaJET date.