Wash. Admin. Code § 388-458-0025 - We send you a change letter if the amount of benefits you are getting is changing
(1) We send you a
change letter if the amount of benefits you are getting is changing.
(2) On the letter, we tell you:
(a) What your benefits are changing
to;
(b) When the change is going to
happen;
(c) The reason for the
change;
(d) The rules that support
our decision; and
(e) Your right to
have your case reviewed or ask for a fair hearing.
(3) We send the letter to you before the
change happens. If your benefits are going down, we give you at least ten days
notice unless:
(a) You ask us to reduce your
benefits;
(b) We have to change
benefits for a lot of people at once because of a law change;
(c) For cash and food assistance:
(i) We told you on your approval letter that
your benefits might change every month because you have fluctuating income;
or
(ii) We already told you that
the supplement would end.
(d) For cash assistance, we told you that the
AREN payment described in WAC
388-436-0002 was for one month
only.
(4) The ten-day
count starts on the day we mail or give you the letter and ends on the tenth
day.
(5) If we don't have to give
you ten days notice, we send the letter to you:
(a) For cash assistance, by the date of the
action.
(b) For food assistance, by
the date you normally get your benefits.
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