WAC 388-444-0030 Work requirements for persons who are able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDS).

1. Clients who are age eighteen to fifty and have no dependents must, unless exempt, participate in specific employment and training activities to receive food assistance.

2. Nonexempt clients who fail to participate are eligible for no more than three months of food assistance in a thirty-six month period.

3. Except as provided in WAC 388-444-0035, a person is not eligible to receive food assistance for more than three full months in the thirty-six month period beginning January 1, 1997 unless that person: 

   1. Works at least twenty hours a week averaged monthly; or

   2. Participates in and complies with the requirements of a work program for twenty hours or more per week; or

   3. Participates in a workfare program as provided in WAC 388-444-0040.

4. A work program is defined as a program under:

   1. The Job Training Partnership Act (JTPA);

   2. Section 236 of the Trade Act of 1974; or

   3. A state-approved employment and training program.