WAC 388-444-0070 Good cause for quitting a job

Unless otherwise specified the following rules apply to all food assistance clients.

1. Good cause for quitting a job includes the following: 

   1. For all food assistance clients, the employment is unsuitable as defined under WAC 388-444-0060;

   2. The client is discriminated against by an employer based on age, race, sex, color, religious belief, national origin, political belief, marital status, or the presence of any sensory, mental, or physical disability or other reasons in RCW 49.60.180;

   3. Work demands or conditions make continued employment unreasonable, such as working without being paid on schedule;

   4. The client accepts other employment or is enrolled at least half time in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education;

   5. The client must leave a job because another assistance unit member accepts a job or is enrolled at least half time in any recognized school, training program, or institution of higher education in another county or similar political subdivision and the assistance unit must move;

   6. The client who is under age sixty and retires as recognized by the employer;

   7. The client accepts a bona fide offer of employment of twenty or more a week or where the weekly earnings are equivalent to the federal minimum wage multiplied by twenty hours. However, because of circumstances beyond the control of the client, the job either does not materialize or results in employment of twenty hours or less a week or weekly earnings of less than the federal minimum wage multiplied by twenty hours;

   8. The client leaves a job in connection with patterns of employment where workers frequently move from one employer to another, such as migrant farm labor or construction work; and.

   9. For FS E&T participants, circumstances included under WAC 388-444-0050;

2. A client who quits the most recent job is eligible for food assistance if the circumstances of the job involve:

   1. Changes in job status resulting from reduced hours of employment while working for the same employer;

   2. Termination of a self-employment enterprise; or

   3. Resignation from a job at the demand of an employer.

3. The client must verify good cause for quitting. Food assistance is not denied if the client and the department are unable to obtain verification.