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MFIP Employment Services Manual

MFIP Employment Services Manual


19.21.3 How Participants Can Prevent Sanctions

ISSUE DATE: 09/2020

Once participants receive a Notice of Intent to Sanction, they can take the following actions to stop the sanction from being imposed:

  • · Follow all instructions in the Notice of Intent to Sanction.
  • · Show that they are already in compliance.
  • · Explain good cause for not complying with requirements, see 19.9 (Good Cause). This may or may not require documentation.
  • · Request a fair hearing or a conciliation conference. See 19.48.3 (Conciliation Conference), 19.48.6 (Fair Hearing (Appeal)).


    • Do not impose a pending sanction if a participant comes into compliance according to the following timetable:

    Reason for Sanction

    Date By Which Participant Must Come Into Compliance to Prevent Sanction Being Imposed

    Not Attending Orientation.

    Before the effective date of the sanction.

    Not Complying With Requirements for Employment Services in Non-Consecutive Months.

    Ten days prior to the effective date of the sanction.
    (This is rarely same date as 10 day notice).

    Not Complying With Employment Services and in the 3rd Through 6th Consecutive Sanction.

    Up to the day prior to the effective date of the sanction.

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