RCW 43.20B.620
Overpayments of assistance—Lien against recipient's property—Recovery methods.
Overpayments of public assistance or food stamps or food stamp benefits transferred electronically under RCW 74.04.300 shall become a lien against the real and personal property of the recipient from the time of filing by the department with the county auditor of the county in which the recipient resides or owns property, and the lien claim has preference over the claims of all unsecured creditors.
Debts due the state for overpayments of public assistance or food stamps or food stamp benefits transferred electronically may be recovered by the state by deduction from the subsequent assistance payments to such persons, lien and foreclosure, or order to withhold and deliver, or may be recovered by civil action.
[ 1998 c 79 § 4; 1987 c 75 § 43.]
Structure Revised Code of Washington
Title 43 - State Government—Executive
Chapter 43.20B - Revenue Recovery for Department of Social and Health Services.
43.20B.020 - Fees for services—Department of health and department of social and health services.
43.20B.040 - Chapter does not apply where another party liable—Statement of lien—Form.
43.20B.050 - Liens—Compromise—Settlement or judgment.
43.20B.110 - License fees to be charged by secretary—Waiver—Review and comment.
43.20B.120 - Funeral assistance—Lien against assets.
43.20B.310 - Residential care payments by families, when not collected.
43.20B.320 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Criminally insane—Liability.
43.20B.325 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—How computed.
43.20B.330 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Liability.
43.20B.345 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Judgment for accrued amounts.
43.20B.347 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Lien against real and personal property.
43.20B.350 - Mental illness—Treatment costs—Modification or vacation of findings of responsibility.
43.20B.355 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Due date—Collection.
43.20B.360 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Collection—Statutes of limitation.
43.20B.370 - Mental illness—Hospitalization charges—Collection—Prosecuting attorneys to assist.
43.20B.415 - State residential schools—Liability for costs of services—Limitation.
43.20B.440 - Residential habilitation centers—Costs of services—Charges payable in advance.
43.20B.620 - Overpayments of assistance—Lien against recipient's property—Recovery methods.
43.20B.630 - Overpayments of assistance—Procedures—Adjudicative proceeding.
43.20B.635 - Overpayments of assistance—Orders to withhold property of debtor—Procedures.
43.20B.640 - Overpayments of assistance—Failure to withhold property of debtor.
43.20B.645 - Overpayments of assistance—Assignment of earnings.
43.20B.660 - Improper realty transfer—Suit to rescind—Recovery from recipient's estate.
43.20B.670 - Excess property assistance program—Lien—Department as creditor.
43.20B.680 - Vendor overpayments—Lien or other security—Setoff or recoupment—Exception.
43.20B.685 - Vendor overpayments—Liens—Duration—Enforcement.
43.20B.688 - Limitation on actions to enforce vendor overpayment debts.
43.20B.690 - Vendor overpayments—Remedies nonexclusive.
43.20B.695 - Vendor overpayments—Interest—Exceptions.
43.20B.745 - Recipient receiving industrial insurance compensation—Application.
43.20B.900 - Savings—1987 c 75.
43.20B.902 - Construction—Chapter applicable to state registered domestic partnerships—2009 c 521.