The basic food employment and training (BFET) program is the
name for Washington's voluntary supplemental nutrition assistance program
(SNAP) employment and training program.
(1) If you receive federally funded basic
food benefits and are at least sixteen years of age or older (see additional
requirements to serve sixteen to seventeen year olds below) and are able to
work at least twenty hours per week (see additional requirements below), you
may choose to receive services through the BFET program in one or more of the
following activities, if we currently provide the service in the county where
you live:
(a) Job search and training, which
may include:
(i) Labor market
information;
(ii) Job seeking
skills instruction;
(iii) Resume
writing;
(iv) Job skills
assessment;
(v) Coaching;
(vi) Work ethic training; or
(vii) Job placement services.
(b) Supervised job search, which
may include:
(i) Use of computer, email, fax,
telephone;
(ii) Search of job
listings; and
(iii) Securing
identification, professional license, or certifications.
(c) Basic education, which may include:
(i) Education in basic computer
skills;
(ii) Literacy or math
training;
(iii) High school
equivalency (formerly GED);
(iv)
Basic education for adults (BEA); or
(v) English as a second language
(ESL).
(d) Life skills,
which may include:
(i) Work
preparation;
(ii) Health and
well-being;
(iii) Effective
communication;
(iv) Personal
strength builders;
(v) Community
engagement.
(e)
Vocational education, which may be:
(i)
Credentialed;
(ii) Recognized by an
independent third party; or
(iii)
Accepted by local industry employers.
(f) Job retention services, which may
include:
(i) Counseling;
(ii) Coaching;
(iii) Case management; and
(iv) Participant reimbursements.
(g) Paid or unpaid work.
(2) If you are eligible
to participate in BFET activities, you must be able to participate in BFET
twenty hours per week, up to forty hours per week.
(a) Youth ages sixteen to seventeen may
participate in BFET programs, whether they receive basic food benefits
independently or through their parents basic food case.
(i) The participation exception for youth are
secondary education, or high school equivalency classes.
(ii) Youth may participate in vocational
education programs if they have received or in the process of receiving their
high school equivalency.
(iii)
Youth sixteen years and older do not require parental consent to participate in
BFET.
(iv) Persons with a verified
disability (which may include those receiving services from the division of
vocational rehabilitation) may be eligible for BFET services.
(3) If you are an able
bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) and able to work, you may be eligible
for BFET services.
(4) If you
receive employment and training services within multiple department of social
and health services administrations, you cannot receive duplication of
services, nor duplication of support services.
(5) If you receive benefits under the
state-funded food assistance program (FAP), you are not eligible to participate
in BFET.
(6) If you receive
temporary assistance to needy families (TANF), you are not eligible to
participate in BFET.
Notes
Wash. Admin.
Code §
388-444-0015
Amended by
WSR
13-24-043, filed 11/26/13, effective
1/1/2014
Amended by
WSR
21-19-040, Filed 9/10/2021, effective
10/11/2021
Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.04.050,
74.04.055,
74.04.057,
74.04.500,
74.04.515,
74.08.090,
74.08A.120,
74.08A.903, and 7 U.S.C. 2015
(d)(1); 7 C.F.R. § 273.7. 10-18-048, § 388-444-0015, filed 8/26/10,
effective 10/1/10. Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.04.050,
74.04.055,
74.04.057,
74.04.510,
74.08.090, 7 C.F.R. 273.7 and
273.25. 06-24-026, § 388-444-0015, filed 11/29/06, effective 1/1/07.
Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.04.050 and
74.04.510. 00-04-006, §
388-444-0015, filed 1/20/00, effective 3/1/00. Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.04.050,
74.04.055,
74.04.057 and
74.08.090. 98-16-044, §
388-444-0015, filed 7/31/98, effective
9/1/98.
