WAC 173-98-400   Loan interest rates.  (1) Interest will accrue on each disbursement as it is paid to the recipient.

     (2) The department bases loan interest rates on the average market interest rate. The average market interest rate is:

     (a) Based on the daily market rate published in the bond buyer's index for tax-exempt municipal bonds; and

     (b) Taken from the period sixty to thirty days before the annual funding application cycle begins.

     (3) See WAC 173-98-300 and 173-98-310 for hardship interest rates.

     Figure 6: Loan Terms and Interest Rates

Repayment Period	Interest Rate
Up to five years:	Thirty percent of the average market rate.
More than five but no more than twenty years:	Sixty percent of the average market rate.

     (4) The director may approve lower interest rates for the annual funding application cycle if a financial analysis of the revolving fund demonstrates that lower interest rates for that year are not detrimental to the perpetuity of the revolving fund.



[Statutory Authority: Chapter 90.50A RCW, RCW 90.48.035, and 43.21A.080. 11-20-036 (Order 10-14), § 173-98-400, filed 9/27/11, effective 10/28/11. Statutory Authority: RCW 90.48.035. 07-14-096 (Order 05-16), § 173-98-400, filed 6/29/07, effective 7/30/07.]