There may be times when you do not have to start the activities in your Participation Agreement right away.<\/p>\n
For example, if you are a single parent<\/strong> you can delay starting the activities if:<\/p>\n Or, you may be able to delay the activities, if you are a caregiver<\/strong> for a family member. You will need to have a letter from your doctor or other health?care professional saying why you cannot do the activities.<\/p>\n Examples of other health?care professionals who can write a letter are nurse practitioners, psychiatrists, and social workers.<\/p>\n The letter needs to explain that your family member needs your help every day, for example, because they are sick or have a disability, or they are elderly.<\/p>\n There are other reasons why your OW worker might excuse you from doing the activities in the Agreement.<\/p>\n But you need to prove why it would be very difficult for you to do any of the activities. For example, this might be true if:<\/p>\n Your OW worker might also excuse you from doing the activities if you are taking “family caregiver leave” or “family medical leave”.<\/p>\n These are leaves of absence from work that you take to care for or support someone who has a serious medical condition or is dying.<\/p>\n You need to give the OW office documents or other evidence to show why you cannot do the activities.<\/p>\n If there are changes in your life, you need to tell your OW worker. This might mean that you have to start doing the activities.<\/p>\n OW reviews Participation Agreements on a regular basis. So when an OW worker does a review, they could decide that you have to start doing the activities.<\/p>\n This could happen even if you have not had to do the activities for a long time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-46620","publications-page","type-publications-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"\n\n
Being excused from activities<\/h2>\n
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Reporting changes to OW<\/h2>\n