WAC 388-823-1010   When will DDD review my eligibility to determine if I continue to have a developmental disability?  (1) Your eligibility can be reviewed at any time if your eligibility effective date is prior to July 2005 and you are age ten or older and were eligible under a condition of developmental delay or Down syndrome.

     (2) Your eligibility will be reviewed at age seventeen with termination occurring no sooner than your eighteenth birthday if your most current eligibility determination was at sixteen or younger under mental retardation, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, autism, another neurological condition, or other condition similar to mental retardation.

     (3) DDD will review your eligibility prior to the initial authorization of any paid service from DDD when you are not currently receiving paid services and:

     (a) You are age eighteen or older and your most current eligibility determination is more than twenty-four months old; or

     (b) You are age four but under age eighteen and your eligibility was established under the eligible conditions of developmental delay or Down syndrome and your eligibility effective date is prior to July 2005.

     (4) DDD will review your eligibility if DDD discovers:

     (a) The evidence used to make your most recent eligibility determination completed in 1992 or later appears to be insufficient, in error, or fraudulent; or

     (b) New diagnostic information becomes available that does not support your current eligibility and you are under the age of eighteen.



[Statutory Authority: RCW 71A.10.020, 71A.12.030, 71A.12.050, 71A.12.070, 71A.16.020, 71A.16.030, 71A.16.040, 71A.16.050, and chapters 71A.10, 71A.12, and 71A.16 RCW. 05-12-130, § 388-823-1010, filed 6/1/05, effective 7/2/05.]