New Jersey Administrative Code › Title 10 - HUMAN SERVICES › Chapter 87 - NEW JERSEY SUPPLEMENTAL NUTRITION ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NJ SNAP) MANUAL › Subchapter 10 - FISCAL OPERATIONAL PROBLEMS › Section 10:87-10.5 - Voluntary quit or reduction of work effort

Current through Register Vol. 56, No. 14, July 15, 2024
(a) Any individual
				subject to the NJ SNAP work requirements who either voluntarily quits his or
				her job without good cause, or who voluntarily reduces his or her work to less
				than 30 hours per week or his or her wages to less than the equivalent of the
				Federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours, shall not be eligible for
				participation in the NJ SNAP program in accordance with the provisions at (c)
				below. Changes in employment status that result from involuntarily reducing
				hours of employment while working for the same employer, terminating a
				self-employment enterprise or resigning from a job at the demand of the
				employer shall not be considered as a reduction of work effort or a voluntary
				quit. If an individual quits a job, secures new employment at comparable wages
				or hours and is then laid off or, through no fault of his or her own, loses the
				new job, the earlier quit shall not be the basis of a disqualification. An
				employee of the Federal Government, or of a State or local government who
				participates in a strike against such government, and is dismissed from his or
				her job because of participation in the strike shall be considered to have
				voluntarily quit his or her job without good cause (see
				10:87-10.11 concerning strikers).
				The CWA shall explain to the household at the time of application the potential
				consequences of household members quitting a job or reducing their wages or
				hours of work without good cause.
(b) When a household files an application for
				participation, or when a participating household reports the loss of a source
				of income or a reduction in household earnings, the CWA shall determine if any
				household member voluntarily quit his or her job or reduced his or her work
				effort. The voluntary quit and reduction of work effort provisions apply if the
				employment involved 30 hours or more per week or provided weekly earnings at
				least equivalent to the Federal minimum wage multiplied by 30 hours; the quit
				or reduction occurred within 60 days prior to the date of application or
				anytime thereafter; and the quit was without good cause or the reduction of
				work was voluntary and without good cause. Benefits shall not be delayed beyond
				the application processing standards described at
				10:87-2.26 and 2.28 pending the
				outcome of the determination.
1. An
				individual working under contract who declines, without good cause, a contract
				renewal offer with terms comparable to those of the previous contract, and who
				has not secured new employment at comparable wages/hours, shall be considered
				to have voluntarily quit.
2.
				Neither military personnel who do not re-enlist, nor persons who are not
				offered employment contract renewal, shall be considered to have voluntarily
				quit.
3. An individual who reduces
				his or her work hours to less than 30 hours a week shall remain exempt from
				program work requirements and shall not be considered to have reduced his or
				her work effort if his or her weekly earnings exceed the Federal minimum wage
				times 30 hours.