Clarifying Information - WAC 388-406-0055

Basic Food and Transitional Food Assistance:

Transitional Food Assistance (TFA) provides five months of basic food benefits as a fixed benefit amount for families leaving TANF or Tribal TANF. When someone moves out of a TFA household, they aren't automatically removed from the TFA assistance unit.

Federal rules don't allow people to receive benefits under the Food Stamp program in more than one household at the same time. This includes basic food and TFA.

When an active member of a TFA AU moves away and applies for basic food in a different household, we must remove the applicant from the TFA AU before starting basic food or adding them to someone else’s basic food AU.

The applicant is eligible for basic food effective the first of the month after they were removed from the TFA AU with advance notice.