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The required word that must be used alongside a noun (like "apples") to describe the work performed, such as "picking apples."
What is an action verb?
The maximum number of days a worker has after a qualifying move to "engage" in new qualifying work for automatic MAW status.
What is 60 days?
The name for a worker's employment that is tied to the cycles of nature, such as a grape harvest.
What is seasonal employment?
The essential item that must be documented on the COE if the MAW stated they plan to leave their job in 10 months.
What is the worker's statement?
This section states that eligibility generally ends because once the child receives a high school diploma or its equivalent, the individual is generally no longer entitled under State law to a free public education through grade 12.
What is A3?
This is the specific six-part section that must be maintained in whole and unaltered, regarding the worker's eligibility factors.
What is the Qualifying Moves & Work Section? or What is Section 3?
The essential MAW criteria that means the worker performed work related to the production or initial processing of crops, dairy, or livestock.
What is agricultural work?
This is the specific maximum duration, in months, for an individual's employment to be considered "temporary employment."
What is 12 months?
The type of comment when a recruiter learns directly from the employer that a position will end in a specific amount of time or date.
What is the employers statement?
This section defines the term "out-of-school youth" as children through age 21 who are entitled to a free public education in the State and meet the definition of a migratory child, but are not currently enrolled in a K-12 institution.
What is A5?
This must be done to the COE every time a child makes a new qualifying move that would renew the child's eligibility.
What is completing a new COE?
The kind of work done at a processing facility that qualifies as agricultural work, such as cleaning, cutting, or freezing a raw product, but stops before cooking or curing.
What is initial processing?
The type of work used on the COE when a worker is picking lettuce in a temperature controlled environment in Michigan during the month of February.
What is temporary work?
This is the label for a comment used to describe why the worker and the child moved on different dates.
What is 2bi?
This section explicitly states, "There is no statutory or regulatory definition of a residence for purposes of the MEP. However, the Department views a 'residence' as a place where one lives and not just visits."
What is D2?
The three separate individuals whose signatures are required to complete the eligibility determination and approval process.
Who are the interviewee, the recruiter, and the SEA/local designated reviewer?
The required components of establishing the MAW, other than immediate employment, if a worker makes a move but does not engage in qualifying work soon after the move.
What is actively seeking qualifying work AND having a recent history of moves for qualifying work?
The specific individuals whose statements about job duration an SEA may rely on to confirm that a non-seasonal job is temporary employment.
Who are the worker and the employer?
The primary goal of the information written in this section, ensuring an auditor can better understand the determination without speaking to the recruiter.
What is the General Comments Section?
This section notes that a recruiter does not need to see a marriage certificate or other legal document in order to establish a spousal relationship when MEP eligibility is based on a spouse’s status as a migratory worker.
What is B5?
The two dates that must be recorded in the COE's Child Data section, where the second may precede the first if the child moved before the worker.
What are the Qualifying Arrival Date (QAD) and the Residency Date?
Work where a family, out of economic necessity, consumes the majority of the crops, dairy, or livestock they produce, rather than selling it for wages.
What is personal subsistence?
The type of work when a person is hired during the Christmas and new year seasons to process turkeys for 4 months starting in October.
What is Temporary employment?
The two elements that must be documented in this section if the worker had to be established using "did not engage" on
What are how the worker actively sought new qualifying work AND the worker's history of moves for qualifying work?
This section identifies examples of activities that are not considered part of the cultivation or harvesting of trees, such as "trimming trees around electric power lines."
What is F13?