Revised Code of Washington - RCW Title 74 Public Assistance - Chapter 74.08A Washington Workfirst Temporary Assistance For Needy Families
- 74.08A.010 Time limits -- Transitional food stamp assistance
(1) A family that includes an adult who has received temporary assistance for needy families for sixty months after July 27, 1997, shall be ineligible ...
- 74.08A.020 Electronic benefit transfer
By October 2002, the department shall develop and implement an electronic benefit transfer system to be used for the delivery of public assistance benefits, including ...
- 74.08A.030 Provision of services by religiously affiliated organizations -- Rules
(1) The department shall allow religiously affiliated organizations to provide services to families receiving temporary assistance for needy families on the same basis as any ...
- 74.08A.040 Indian tribes -- Program access -- Funding -- Rules
The department shall (1) provide eligible Indian tribes ongoing, meaningful opportunities to participate in the development, oversight, and operation of the state temporary assistance for ...
- 74.08A.050 Indian tribes -- Tribal program -- Fiscal year
An eligible Indian tribe exercising its authority under P.L. 104-193 to operate a tribal temporary assistance for needy families program shall operate the program on ...
- 74.08A.060 Food stamp work requirements
Single adults without dependents between eighteen and fifty years of age shall comply with federal food stamp work requirements as a condition of eligibility. The ...
- 74.08A.100 Immigrants -- Eligibility
The state shall exercise its option under P.L. 104-193 to continue services to legal immigrants under temporary assistance for needy families, medicaid to the extent ...
- 74.08A.110 Immigrants -- Sponsor deeming
(1) Except as provided in subsection (4) of this section, qualified aliens and aliens permanently residing under color of law shall have their eligibility for ...
- 74.08A.120 Immigrants -- Food assistance
(1) The department may establish a food assistance program for legal immigrants who are ineligible for the federal food stamp program. (2) The rules for ...
- 74.08A.130 Immigrants -- Naturalization facilitation
The department shall make an affirmative effort to identify and proactively contact legal immigrants receiving public assistance to facilitate their applications for naturalization. The department ...
- 74.08A.200 Intent -- Washington WorkFirst
It is the intent of the legislature that all applicants to the Washington WorkFirst program shall be focused on obtaining paid, unsubsidized employment. The focus ...
- 74.08A.210 Diversion program -- Emergency assistance
(1) In order to prevent some families from developing dependency on temporary assistance for needy families, the department shall make available to qualifying applicants a ...
- 74.08A.220 Individual development accounts -- Microcredit and microenterprise approaches -- Rules
The department shall carry out a program to fund individual development accounts established by recipients eligible for assistance under the temporary assistance for needy families ...
- 74.08A.230 Earnings disregards and earned income cutoffs
(1) In addition to their monthly benefit payment, a family may earn and keep one-half of its earnings during every month it is eligible to ...
- 74.08A.240 Noncustodial parents in work programs
The department may provide Washington WorkFirst activities or make cross-referrals to existing programs to qualifying noncustodial parents of children receiving temporary assistance for needy families ...
- 74.08A.250 "Work activity" defined
Unless the context clearly requires otherwise, as used in this chapter, "work activity" means: (1) Unsubsidized paid employment in the private or public sector; (2) ...
- 74.08A.260 Work activity -- Referral -- Individual responsibility plan -- Refusal to work
(1) Each recipient shall be assessed after determination of program eligibility and before referral to job search. Assessments shall be based upon factors that are ...
- 74.08A.270 Good cause
(1) Good cause reasons for failure to participate in WorkFirst program components include: (a) Situations where the recipient is a parent or other relative personally ...
- 74.08A.275 Employability screening
Each recipient approved to receive temporary assistance for needy families shall be subject to an employability screening under RCW 74.08A.260 after determination of program eligibility ...
- 74.08A.280 Program goal -- Collaboration to develop work programs -- Contracts -- Service areas -- Regional plans
(1) The legislature finds that moving those eligible for assistance to self-sustaining employment is a goal of the WorkFirst program. It is the intent of ...
- 74.08A.285 Job search instruction and assistance
The WorkFirst program operated by the department to meet the federal work requirements specified in P.L. 104-193 shall contain a job search component. The component ...
- 74.08A.290 Competitive performance-based contracting -- Evaluation of contracting practices -- Contracting strategies
(1) It is the intent of the legislature that the department is authorized to engage in competitive contracting using performance-based contracts to provide all work ...
- 74.08A.300 Placement bonuses
In the case of service providers that are not public agencies, initial placement bonuses of no greater than five hundred dollars may be provided by ...
- 74.08A.310 Self-employment assistance -- Training and placement programs
The department shall: (1) Notify recipients of temporary assistance for needy families that self-employment is one method of leaving state assistance. The department shall provide ...
- 74.08A.320 Wage subsidy program
The department shall establish a wage subsidy program for recipients of temporary assistance for needy families. The department shall give preference in job placements to ...
- 74.08A.330 Community service program
The department shall establish the community service program to provide the experience of work for recipients of public assistance. The program is intended to promote ...
- 74.08A.340 Funding restrictions
The department of social and health services shall operate the Washington WorkFirst program authorized under RCW 74.08A.200 through 74.08A.330,43.330.145 , 43.215.545, and 74.25.040, and chapter ...
- 74.08A.350 Questionnaires -- Job opportunities for welfare recipients
The department of social and health services shall create a questionnaire, asking businesses for information regarding available and upcoming job opportunities for welfare recipients. The ...
- 74.08A.380 Teen parents -- Education requirements
All applicants under the age of eighteen years who are approved for assistance and, within one hundred eighty days after the date of federal certification ...
- 74.08A.400 Outcome measures -- Intent
It is the intent of the legislature that the Washington WorkFirst program focus on work and on personal responsibility for recipients. The program shall be ...
- 74.08A.410 Outcome measures -- Development -- Benchmarks
(1) The WorkFirst program shall develop outcome measures for use in evaluating the WorkFirst program authorized in chapter 58, Laws of 1997, which may include ...
- 74.08A.420 Outcome measures -- Evaluations -- Awarding contracts -- Bonuses
Every WorkFirst office, region, contract, employee, and contractor shall be evaluated using the criteria in RCW 74.08A.410. The department shall award contracts to the highest ...
- 74.08A.430 Outcome measures -- Report to legislature
The department shall provide a report to the appropriate committees of the legislature on achievement of the outcome measures by region and contract on an ...
- 74.08A.900 Short title -- 1997 c 58
This act may be known and cited as the Washington WorkFirst temporary assistance for needy families act.[1997 c 58 § 2.] ...
- 74.08A.901 Part headings, captions, table of contents not law -- 1997 c 58
Part headings, captions, and the table of contents used in this act are not any part of the law.[1997 c 58 § 1008.] ...
- 74.08A.902 Exemptions and waivers from federal law -- 1997 c 58
The governor and the department of social and health services shall seek all necessary exemptions and waivers from and amendments to federal statutes, rules, and ...
- 74.08A.903 Conflict with federal requirements -- 1997 c 58
If any part of this act is found to be in conflict with federal requirements that are a prescribed condition to the allocation of federal ...
- 74.08A.904 Severability -- 1997 c 58
If any provision of this act or its application to any person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of the act or the application ...
Last modified: April 7, 2009