WSR 15-12-021 PERMANENT RULES DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL AND HEALTH SERVICES (Economic Services Administration) [Filed May 22, 2015, 1:39 p.m., effective July 1, 2015] Effective Date of Rule: July 1, 2015.
Purpose: The community services division, economic services administration is creating WAC 388-478-0006 to establish the clothing, personal maintenance, and necessary incidentals (CPI) payment standard for cash assistance programs.
Currently, the department relies on WAC 182-515-1500 and 182-513-1300 to establish the CPI payment standards for cash assistance. The health care authority plans to repeal both rules, since they pertain directly to cash assistance. The department is establishing CPI standards in WAC 388-478-0006, as supported by RCW 74.04.770.
Statutory Authority for Adoption: RCW 74.04.005, 74.04.770, 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057, 74.08.090, 74.08A.100, and 74.62.030.
Adopted under notice filed as WSR 15-08-063 on March 27, 2015.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Comply with Federal Statute: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Federal Rules or Standards: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Recently Enacted State Statutes: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted at Request of a Nongovernmental Entity: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted on the Agency's Own Initiative: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted in Order to Clarify, Streamline, or Reform Agency Procedures: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Number of Sections Adopted Using Negotiated Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; Pilot Rule Making: New 0, Amended 0, Repealed 0; or Other Alternative Rule Making: New 1, Amended 0, Repealed 0.
Date Adopted: May 21, 2015.
Katherine I. Vasquez
Rules Coordinator
NEW SECTION
WAC 388-478-0006 The clothing, personal maintenance, and necessary incidentals (CPI) payment standard for cash assistance.
Payment standards for assistance units (AU) in certain facilities and medical institutions are based on the need for clothing, personal maintenance, and necessary incidentals (CPI).
(1) The CPI cash assistance payment standard for recipients of cash assistance is:
(a) Forty-one dollars and sixty-two cents for eligible persons in medical institutions as defined in WAC 182-500-0050; or
(b) Thirty-eight dollars and eighty-four cents for eligible persons in one of the following facilities as defined in WAC 182-513-1100:
(i) Adult residential care (ARC) facility;
(ii) Adult residential rehabilitation centers (ARRC);
(iii) Adult residential treatment facility (ARTF);
(iv) Enhanced adult residential care facility (EARC); or
(v) Developmental disability administration (DDA) group home facilities.
(2) Refer to WAC 388-478-0010 when living situation is other than the medical institutions defined in WAC 182-500-0050 and group facilities defined in WAC 182-513-1100.
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