Current through Register Vol. 24-18, September 15, 2024
(1)
Eligibility. To be eligible for the self-employment assistance
program, you must:
(a) Be otherwise eligible
for regular unemployment benefits and:
(i)
Have been identified by the department as likely to exhaust regular
unemployment benefits using the profiling model established under
RCW
50.20.011 and WAC
192-180-060; or
(ii) Eligible for commissioner approved
training as provided in WAC
192-200-020; and
(b) Enroll and satisfactorily
participate in a self-employment assistance program approved by the
commissioner.
(2)
Likely to exhaust. The department will use the following process
to identify claimants who are likely to exhaust for purposes of the
self-employment assistance program:
(a) Assign
profile scores to individuals with a claim ending during the most recent
federal fiscal year (October 1 through September 30) using the model described
in WAC 192-180-060.
(b) Find the number of these claimants who
actually exhausted regular unemployment benefits and determine their percentage
of the entire profiled population.
(c) The result will determine the percentile
of profiled scores that will be identified as likely to exhaust. For example,
assume during the most recent federal fiscal year, fifteen percent of profiled
claimants actually exhaust benefits. This means the eighty-fifth percentile of
profile scores will be used to identify claimants who are likely to
exhaust.
(d) Determine the lowest
score assigned to claimants within this group.
(e) Claimants with that score or higher who
file new claims during the following calendar year will be notified by the
department they are potentially eligible for the self-employment assistance
program.
(3)
Satisfactory participation. The department will consider you to be
satisfactorily participating if you are making satisfactory progress as defined
in WAC 192-200-030(1)(c).
Statutory Authority: RCW 50.12.010 and 50.12.040.
13-02-008, § 192-200-040, filed 12/19/12, effective 1/19/13. Statutory
Authority:
RCW
50.12.010,
50.12.040,
50.20.010,
50.20.250(7) and
50.20.012. 07-23-129, §
192-200-040, filed 11/21/07, effective
1/1/08.
