WAC 192-200-040
Who is eligible to participate in the
self-employment assistance program? (1) Eligibility. To be
eligible for the self-employment assistance program, you must:
(a) Be otherwise eligible for regular unemployment
benefits;
(b) 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; and
(c) 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, 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.]