WAC 388-444-0030

Effective April 1, 2009

WAC 388-444-0030 Work requirements for persons who are able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDS).

  1. Able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) are age eighteen to fifty and have no dependents.  They must, unless determined exempt, participate in specific employment and training activities to receive food assistance.

  2. Nonexempt ABAWDs who fail to participate may continue to receive food assistance until September 30, 2010.

  3. Beginning October 1, 2010, an ABAWD is not eligible to receive food assistance for more than three full months in a thirty-six month period, except as provided in WAC 388-444-0035, unless that person: 

    1. Works at least twenty hours a week averaged monthly; or

    2. Participates in and complies with the requirements of a work program for twenty hours or more per week; or

    3. Participates in a workfare program as provided in WAC 388-444-0040.

  4. A work program is defined as a program under:

    1. The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA);

    2. Section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974; or

    3. A state-approved employment and training program.

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