Job retention provides opportunities
for training and skill development to improve employment outcomes, job
retention and promote long-term self-sufficiency and independence for
supplemental nutrition assistance program (SNAP) employment and training
(E&T) participants.
(A)
What are job retention services?
Job retention services are an allowable
SNAP E&T activity designed to help achieve satisfactory performance, retain
employment and to increase earnings over time.
(B)
What is the goal
of job retention services?
The goal of job retention services is
to assist SNAP E&T participants in improving basic skills, increasing
employability, aiding in career advancement and enabling SNAP E&T
participants to gain better employment.
(C)
What types of
activities may be provided as part of job retention services?
Job retention services may include but
are not limited to:
(1)
Financial literacy planning;
(5)
Training/skills enhancement; and
(6)
Supportive
services such as reimbursement for costs associated with transportation and
childcare.
(D)
Who can receive job retention services?
A participant who:
(1)
Secured
employment after or while receiving other employment and training services
under the SNAP E&T program; and
(2)
Is receiving SNAP
in the month of or month prior to beginning job retention services. Job
retention services can be provided when the participant is no longer in receipt
of SNAP and is not:
(a)
Sanctioned in accordance with rule
5101:4-3-11.2 of the
Administrative Code; or
(b)
Disqualified due to an intentional program violation in
accordance with division 5101:6 of the Administrative Code.
(E)
What are the time limits for job retention
services?
(1)
County agencies are to make a good faith effort to provide
job retention services for at least thirty days. County agencies can
demonstrate a good faith effort in a number of ways including but not limited
to:
(a)
Making a
reasonable number of attempts to contact the participant;
(b)
Discussing the
thirty day minimum requirement with the participant; or
(c)
Outlining
specific steps the provider or the participant will take over the next thirty
days to maintain a job.
(2)
Job retention
services are to be offered for no more than ninety days.
(3)
A participant can
receive job retention services for more than one job at the same time. The job
retention time limits apply to each job separately and may
overlap.
(F)
Is there a limit on the number of times an individual
can receive job retention services?
There is no limit to the number of
times an individual can receive job retention services so long as prior to
obtaining new employment, the individual re-engages with the SNAP E&T
program.
(G)
How do job retention services count when used to meet
the able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWD) work requirement?
(1)
The number of
hours spent in an activity as part of job retention services including, but not
limited to those listed in paragraphs (C)(1) to (C)(5) of this rule, are to
count towards the ABAWD work requirement as described in rule
5101:4-3-20 of the
Administrative Code.
(2)
Supportive services as described in paragraph (C)(6) of
this rule are not to count toward the ABAWD work requirement.
(H)
Can a
participant be sanctioned for failing to comply with job retention
services?
An otherwise eligible participant who
refuses or fails to accept or comply with job retention services offered by the
county agency is not to be sanctioned from SNAP.
Notes
Ohio Admin. Code 5101:4-3-39
Effective:
6/16/2022
Five Year Review (FYR) Dates:
06/16/2027
Promulgated
Under: 119.03
Statutory
Authority: 5101.54
Rule
Amplifies: 5101.54,
329.04
