R 400.3610 Noncompliance with employment related activities requirements; food assistance disqualification.

Rule 10. (1) The department shall impose a noncompliance disqualification for food assistance if a food assistance group member, who is not also an applicant for or recipient of cash assistance, fails, without good cause, to comply with the employment and training program. Noncompliance with family independence program requirements shall be counted when determining the disqualification period. (2) The department shall apply a disqualification for food assistance as follows: (a) The noncomplying group member is removed from the eligible group for 1 month for a first instance of noncompliance. (b) The noncomplying group member is removed from the eligible group for 6 months for each instance of noncompliance after the first instance. (c) Once imposed, a disqualification continues in consecutive months even if the case is closed or the disqualified person is subject to another ineligibility disqualification. (d) A disqualification ends if the disqualified person becomes deferred under food assistance deferral rules for any reason other than application for, or receipt of, unemployment compensation. (3) To reestablish eligibility at the end of the disqualification period, a group member shall complete the willingness to comply test unless the member is working 20 hours or more per week. (4) An applicant for or a recipient of family independence program benefits will have the same disqualification or penalty that is applicable to the family independence program applied to his or her food assistance case for noncompliance with employment-related activities requirements in the case of the family independence program and for noncompliance with the requirements of 45 C.F.R.§400.82.