You are eligible for transitional food assistance (TFA) for
up to five months if you meet the following eligibility criteria:
(1) Your family stops receiving cash
assistance to include temporary assistance for needy families (TANF), tribal
TANF, or state family assistance (SFA), or:
(2) Your family receives (TCA);
(3) Your family was receiving basic food at
the time we determined you were no longer eligible for cash assistance
described in subsection (1) of this section, or when you received
TCA;
(4) After your family stops
receiving cash assistance described in subsection (1) of this section, or
receives TCA, no other member of your basic food assistance unit receives TANF,
tribal TANF, or SFA;
(5) Your
family did not move out of the state of Washington as described in WAC
388-468-0005;
(6) At the time your family's cash assistance
ended, your family was not in sanction status. Sanction status means:
(a) We reduced your family's TANF grant
payment because a family member is not cooperating with the division of child
support (WAC
388-422-0010); or
(b) We decided that a member of your family
was not eligible for TANF because the member:
(i) Failed to meet teen parent living
arrangement (WAC
388-486-0005) or teen parent
school attendance requirements (WAC
388-410-0010); or
(ii) Was convicted of unlawful practices (WAC
388-446-0005) or for receiving
TANF in two or more states at the same time (WAC
388-446-0010); or
(c) We stopped your family's TANF
grant payment, including tribal TANF, because of a grant reduction sanction
penalty (WAC
388-310-1600).
(7) At the time your family's TANF
grant ended, your basic food assistance unit did not become ineligible because:
(a) You were applying for recertification of
your basic food benefits and refused to cooperate with the application process;
or
(b) All members of your
assistance unit are ineligible for basic food for the reasons stated in WAC
388-489-0025(3).
(8) There is no limit to the
number of times your family can receive TFA.
Notes
Wash. Admin.
Code §
388-489-0005
Amended by
WSR
22-12-017, Filed 5/20/2022, effective
7/1/2022
Amended by
WSR
23-23-134, Filed 11/17/2023, effective
1/1/2024
Reviser's note:
RCW
34.05.395 requires the use of underlining and
deletion marks to indicate amendments to existing rules. The rule published
above varies from its predecessor in certain respects not indicated by the use
of these markings.
Statutory Authority:
RCW
74.04.050,
74.04.055,
74.04.057,
74.04.510,
74.08.090, and
74.08A.010. 05-19-060, §
388-489-0005, filed 9/16/05, effective
11/1/05.
