Wash. Admin. Code § 388-450-0155 - How does being a sponsored immigrant affect my eligibility for cash and food assistance programs?
(1) The following
definitions apply to this section:
(a)
"INS" means the United States Immigration and Naturalization
Service.
(b)
"Sponsor"
means a person who agreed to meet the needs of a sponsored immigrant by signing
an INS Affidavit of Support form I-864 or I-864A. This includes a sponsor's
spouse if the spouse signed the affidavit of support.
(c)
"Sponsored immigrant" means
a person who must have a sponsor under the Immigration and Nationality Act
(INA) to be admitted into the United States for residence.
(d)
"Deeming" means the
department counts a part of the sponsor's income and resources as available to
the sponsored immigrant.
(e)
"Exempt" means you meet one of the conditions of WAC
388-450-0156. If you are exempt:
(i) You do not need to provide us information
about your sponsor's income and resources; and
(ii) We do not deem your sponsor's income or
resources to you.
(2) If you are a sponsored immigrant and you
are not exempt, you must do the following to be eligible for
benefits even if your sponsor is not supporting you:
(a) Give us the name and address of your
sponsor;
(b) Get your sponsor to
provide us the information we need about their income and resources;
and
(c) Give us the information and
proof we need to decide:
(i) If we must deem
income to your assistance unit (AU); and
(ii) The amount of income we deem to your
AU.
(3) If
you are not eligible for benefits because we do not have the information we
need about your sponsor, we do not delay benefits to the unsponsored people in
your AU who are eligible for benefits. We do not count your needs when we
decide if your AU is eligible for benefits, but we count:
(a) All earned or unearned income you have
that is not excluded under WAC
388-450-0015; and
(b) All deductions you would be eligible for
under chapter 388-450 WAC.
(4) If you refuse to provide us with the
information we need about your sponsor, the other adult members in your AU must
provide the information. If the same person sponsored everyone in your AU, your
AU is not eligible for benefits until someone in your AU provides us the
information we need.
(5) If you are
an ineligible member of your AU, but you must be the AU under chapter 388-408
WAC, we do not deem your sponsor's income or resources to the AU.
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