WAC 388-444-0045 Regaining eligibility for food assistance

1. A client who is ineligible for food assistance because that client has exhausted the three-month limit in WAC 388-444-0030, can regain eligibility by: 

   1. Working eighty hours or more during a thirty-day period;

   2. Participating in and complying with a work program for eighty hours or more during a thirty-day period; or

   3. Participating in and complying with the community service part of a workfare program; or

   4. Meeting any of the work requirements in (a) through (d) of this subjection in the thirty days after an application for benefits has been filed.

2. A client who regains eligibility for food assistance under subsection (1) of this section is eligible from the day of application and as long as the requirements of WAC 388-444-0030 are met.

3. If otherwise eligible, a client who regains eligibility under the provision of subsection (1) of this section may receive an additional three-consecutive months of food assistance when the client:

   1. Loses employment; or

   2. Loses the opportunity to participate in a work program.

4. The provisions in subsection (3) of this section are allowed only once in the thirty-six month period.