Washington Administrative Code › Title 388 - Social and Health Services, Department of › ASSISTANCE PROGRAMS › Chapter 388-310 - WorkFirst › Section 388-310-0400 - WorkFirst-Entering the WorkFirst program as a mandatory participant

Current through Register Vol. 24-14, July 15, 2024
(1) You must follow
				instructions as written in your individual responsibility plan (IRP) as
				required under WAC
				388-310-0500, which is written
				after you have participated in a comprehensive evaluation of elements related
				to your employability. If you have been identified as someone who needs
				necessary supplemental accommodation (NSA) services as defined in chapter
				388-472 WAC, your Work-First worker will first develop an accommodation plan to
				help you access WorkFirst services. The WorkFirst worker will use the
				accommodation plan to help develop your IRP with you. If you have been
				identified as a victim of family violence as defined in WAC
				388-61-001, you and your
				WorkFirst worker will develop an IRP to help you with your situation, including
				referrals to appropriate services.
Your WorkFirst worker will refer you to WorkFirst activities
				  unless any of the following applies to you:
(a) You work thirty-two or more hours a week
				(or, if you are a member of a two-parent family, you work thirty-five hours or
				more a week).
"Work"
means to engage in any legal, income
				generating activity that is taxable under the United States tax code or would
				be taxable with or without a treaty between an Indian nation and the United
				States;
(b) You participate the
				equivalent of twenty or more hours a week (or if you are a member of a
				two-parent family, you participate the equivalent of thirty or more hours a
				week) in job search, vocational education, issue resolution, or paid or unpaid
				work that meets the federal definition of core activities, which may include
				work of sixteen or more hours a week in the federal or state work study
				program, and you attend a Washington state community or technical college at
				least half time;
(c) You work
				twenty or more hours a week (or if you are a member of a two-parent family, you
				work thirty or more hours a week) in unsubsidized employment and attend a
				Washington state community or technical college at least half time;
(d) You are under the age of eighteen, have
				not completed high school, GED, or its equivalent and are in school full
				time;
(e) You are eighteen or
				nineteen years of age and are attending high school or an equivalent full
				time;
(f) You are pregnant or have
				a child under the age of two years old, and are participating in other
				pregnancy to employment activities as defined in WAC
				388-310-1450;
(g) Your situation prevents you from looking
				for a job and you are conducting activities identified on your IRP to help you
				with your situation (for example, you may be unable to look for a job while you
				have health problems or you are homeless); or
(h) Your situation prevents you from looking
				for work because you are a victim of family violence and you are conducting
				activities on your IRP to help you with your situation.