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section until after the recipient has received ((fifty-two)) 52 1 months of assistance under this chapter. 2 (((7))) (6) The department shall provide transitional food 3 assistance for a period of five months to a household that ceases to 4 receive temporary assistance for needy families assistance and is not 5 in sanction status. If necessary, the department shall extend the 6 household's basic food certification until the end of the transition 7 period. 8 (((8))) (7) The department may adopt rules specifying which 9 published employment security department unemployment rates to use 10 for the purposes of subsection (((5))) (4)(a)(((i)(B) and (C))) (ii) 11 and (iii) of this section. 12 Sec. 3. RCW 74.08A.010 and 2022 c 98 s 1 and 2022 c 24 s 1 are 13 each reenacted and amended to read as follows: 14 (1) A family that includes an adult who has received temporary 15 assistance for needy families for ((sixty)) 60 months after July 27, 16 1997, shall be ineligible for further temporary assistance for needy 17 families assistance. 18 (2) For the purposes of applying the rules of this section, the 19 department shall count any month in which an adult family member 20 received a temporary assistance for needy families cash assistance 21 grant unless the assistance was provided when the adult family member 22 was a minor child and not the head of the household or married to the 23 head of the household. 24 (3) ((The department shall adopt regulations to apply the sixty- 25 month time limit to households in which a parent is in the home and 26 ineligible for temporary assistance for needy families. Any 27 regulations shall be consistent with federal funding requirements. 28 (4))) The department shall refer recipients who require 29 specialized assistance to appropriate department programs, crime 30 victims' programs through the department of commerce, or the crime 31 victims' compensation program of the department of labor and 32 industries. 33 (((5)(a))) (4) The department shall add to adopted rules related 34 to temporary assistance for needy families time limit extensions, the 35 following criteria by which the department shall exempt a recipient 36 and the recipient's family from the application of subsection (1) of 37 this section: 38 (((i))) (a) By reason of hardship, including when: 39 p. 7 2SHB 1447.SL