To be eligible to receive food benefits, certain unemployed adults who are members of eligible households must comply with work registration requirements. Form 08MP003E, Responsibilities and Signature for Benefits, includes a work registration statement which automatically registers all household members age 16 through 59 required to comply with work registration. • 1
- (1) It is the worker's responsibility to explain to the applicant this statement and each household member's work registration status and responsibility.
- (2) At the time of the initial application, change in employment status, or at the end of each 12-month registration period, the worker must establish each household member meets exemption requirements or the member is automatically registered by being included on a food benefit application.
- (3) Employable members of migrant households who are not employed at least 30 hours a week or receiving weekly earnings equal to the federal minimum wage times 30 hours must register for and accept suitable employment, the same as other persons.