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Applications for Assistance
Purpose:
This chapter includes rules and procedures for processing applications for cash, medical and food assistance. It includes the following sections and rules:
- Eligibility A-Z Manual (EA-Z)
- Eligibility A-Z (EA-Z) Manual Revisions
- Eligibility A-Z (EA-Z) WAC (Rules) Index
- ABD Clients Residing in Eastern or Western State Hospital or Civilly Committed to a Community-Based Facility
- Administrative Disqualification Hearings for Food Assistance
- Administrative Hearings
- Overview
- Administrative Hearing Coordinator's Role
- Continued Benefits
- Equitable Estoppel
- Hearing Requests
- Pre-Hearing Conference With An Administrative Law Judge
- Pre-Hearing Meeting With the DSHS Representative
- Preparation
- Presenting the Case
- Special Procedures on Non-Grant Medical Assistance and Health Care Authority hearings
- The Decision
- Age Requirements
- Applications for Assistance
- Assistance Units
- Authorized Representative - Food Assistance
- Authorized Representative - Food, Cash and Medical Benefit Issuances
- Automated Client Eligibility System (ACES)
- Basic Food Employment and Training (BFET) Program
- Basic Food - Work Requirements
- Benefit Errors
- Benefit Issuances and Use of Benefits
- Categorical Eligibility for Basic Food
- Certification Periods
- Change of Circumstances - TOC
- Chemical Dependency Treatment
- Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting
- Child Support
- Citizenship and Alien Status
- Civil Rights and Complaints
- Confidentiality
- Consolidated Emergency Assistance Program (CEAP)
- Data Sharing
- Diaper Related Payment (DRP)
- Diversion Cash Assistance
- Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP)
- Eligibility Reviews/Recertifications - Requirements for Food and Cash Programs
- Emergency Assistance Programs
- Emergency Food Supplements
- Equal Access (Necessary Supplemental Accommodations)
- Exception to Rule
- Fair Hearings
- Fleeing Felons
- Food Assistance - Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)
- Food Assistance Program (FAP) for Legal Immigrants
- Food Distribution Program on Indian Reservations
- Foster Care/Relative Placement/Adoption Support/Juvenile Rehabilitation/Unaccompanied Minor Program
- Fraud
- Health Care Authority - Apple Health (Medicaid) Manual
- Healthcare for Workers with Disabilities - HWD
- In Loco Parentis
- Incapacity and Disability
- Income - Table of Contents
- Allocation and Deeming
- Indian Agencies Serving Tribes With a Near-Reservation Designation
- Best Estimate Guide
- Budgeting
- Effect of the Puyallup Settlement on Your Eligibility for Public Assistance
- Income - Indian Agencies Serving Tribes Without a Near-Reservation Designation
- Income - Ownership and Availability
- Income Special Types
- Self Employment Income
- Treatment
- Treatment of Income Chart
- Utility Chart
- Income - Effect of Income and Deductions on Eligibility and Benefit Level
- Interview Requirements
- Letters
- Limited English Proficiency (LEP)
- Living with a Relative or Guardian
- Long Term Care
- Lottery or Gambling Disqualification for Basic Food
- Lump Sum Cash Assistance and TANF/SFA-Related Medical Assistance
- Medical Assistance
- Mid Certification Reviews
- Ongoing Additional Requirements (OAR)
- Overpayments
- Pandemic EBT (P-EBT) Program
- Payees on Benefit Issuances - Authorized Representatives
- Payees on Benefit Issuances - Overview
- Payees on Benefit Issuances - Protective Payees
- Pregnancy and Cash Assistance Eligibility
- Prescription Drug Assistance Programs
- Program Summary
- Quality Control
- Refugee Assistance Program
- Residency Requirements
- Resources
- Rights and Responsibilities
- Social Security Numbers (SSN)
- Standards
- State Median Income Chart
- Strikers
- Student Status
- Sun Bucks
- Supplemental Security Income and State Supplemental Payment
- TANF/SFA Minor Parent
- TANF/SFA Temporary Absence
- TANF/SFA Time Limits
- Transfer of Property for Cash and Basic Food
- Transitional Cash Assistance
- Transitional Food Assistance
- Verification
- Veteran's Referrals
- Voter Registration
- WASHCAP
- WorkFirst Orientation
- WorkFirst Sanctions-Participation