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Timestamp: 2019-10-14 20:15:00
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WSR 09-15-085
[ Filed July 14, 2009, 8:06 a.m. , effective August 14, 2009 ]
Purpose: The department is amending WAC 388-450-0015 What types of income does the department not use to figure out my benefits? Child support is currently a deduction from a household's countable gross income for Basic Food assistance. The department is exercising an option from the 2002 farm bill to treat child support payments made to someone outside of the home as an income exclusion prior to administering the gross income test.
Currently, some households are denied for Basic Food assistance for excess gross income, even when up to 50% of their income is paid out in child support. These families are now unable to qualify for food assistance due to income that they have no access to because it is paid out in child support. This change will enhance the division of child support's mission to collect child support and will enhance the community services division's mission to assist low-income families to access the Basic Food program.
Other Authority: P.L. 107-171, section 4101.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 09-12-117 on June 3, 2009.
(e) Energy assistance payments;
(f) Educational assistance we do not count under WAC 388-450-0035;
(g) Native American benefits and payments we do not count under WAC 388-450-0040;
(h) Income from employment and training programs we do not count under WAC 388-450-0045;
(i) Money withheld from a benefit to repay an overpayment from the same income source. For Basic Food, we do not exclude money that is withheld because you were overpaid for purposely not meeting requirements of a federal, state, or local means tested program such as TANF/SFA, GA, and SSI;
(j) Legally obligated child support payments received by someone who gets TANF/SFA benefits;
(k) One-time payments issued under the Department of State or Department of Justice Reception and Replacement Programs, such as Voluntary Agency (VOLAG) payments; and
(l) Payments we are directly told to exclude as income under state or federal law.
(m) For cash and Basic Food: Payments made to someone outside of the household for the benefits of the assistance unit using funds that are not owed to the household; ((and))
(n) For Basic Food Only: The total monthly amount of all legally obligated current or back child support payments paid by the assistance unit to someone outside of the assistance unit for:
(o) For medical assistance: Only the portion of income used to repay the cost of obtaining that income source.
[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.005, 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057, 74.04.510 and 74.08.090. 09-09-103, § 388-450-0015, filed 4/20/09, effective 4/21/09; 06-07-078, § 388-450-0015, filed 3/13/06, effective 5/1/06. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057, 74.04.510, 74.08.090 and Public Law 106-419. 05-03-078, § 388-450-0015, filed 1/17/05, effective 2/17/05. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.08.090 and 74.04.510. 02-14-022, § 388-450-0015, filed 6/21/02, effective 6/22/02. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.057, 74.08.090, 74.09.530 and 2000 2nd sp.s. c 1 § 210(12). 01-18-006, § 388-450-0015, filed 8/22/01, effective 9/22/01. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.08.090 and 74.04.510. 99-17-025, § 388-450-0015, filed 8/10/99, effective 10/1/99. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057 and 74.08.090. 98-16-044, § 388-450-0015, filed 7/31/98, effective 9/1/98. Formerly WAC 388-505-0590.]