WAC 388-448-0210   What is interim assistance and how do I assign it to you?  The general assistance and SSI programs both provide cash assistance to meet your basic needs. You cannot receive this assistance for the same time period from both programs. When you are approved for or reinstated on SSI, you may receive a back payment. When we made GA payments to you or on your behalf for the same time period, you must assign your interim assistance to repay us.

     (1) "Assign" means that you sign a written authorization for the Social Security Administration (SSA) to send the SSI back payment to us. We will deduct the interim assistance we provided to you.

     (2) "Interim assistance" means the GA funds we paid to you or on your behalf during:

     (a) The time between your SSI application date and the month recurring SSI payments begin; or

     (b) The period your SSI payments were suspended or terminated, and later reinstated.

     (3) We pay up to twenty-five percent of the interim assistance reimbursement that we receive from the SSA to the attorney who successfully represented you in your effort to receive SSI.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 74.08.090, 74.04.005, and 2003 1st sp.s. c 10. 04-07-140, § 388-448-0210, filed 3/22/04, effective 5/1/04. Statutory Authority: RCW 74.04.050, 74.04.055, 74.04.057, 74.08.090. 00-16-113, § 388-448-0210, filed 8/2/00, effective 9/1/00.]