Washington Code 7.68.034 – Direct deposit or electronic payment of benefits
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Any victim or other recipient of benefits under this chapter may elect to have any payments due paid by debit card or other electronic means or transferred to such person‘s account in a financial institution for either: (1) Credit to the recipient’s account in such financial institution; or (2) immediate transfer therefrom to the recipient’s account in any other financial institution. A single payment may be drawn in favor of such financial institution, for the total amount due the recipients involved, and written directions provided to such financial institution of the amount to be credited to the account of a recipient or to be transferred to an account in another financial institution for such recipient. The issuance and delivery by the disbursing officer of a payment in accordance with the procedure set forth in this section and proper endorsement thereof by the financial institution shall have the same legal effect as payment directly to the recipient.
Terms Used In Washington Code 7.68.034
- person: may be construed to include the United States, this state, or any state or territory, or any public or private corporation or limited liability company, as well as an individual. See Washington Code 1.16.080
- Victim: means a person who suffers bodily injury or death as a proximate result of a criminal act of another person, the victim's own good faith and reasonable effort to prevent a criminal act, or his or her good faith effort to apprehend a person reasonably suspected of engaging in a criminal act. See Washington Code 7.68.020
For the purposes of this section, “financial institution” shall have the meaning given in RCW 41.04.240 as now or hereafter amended.
NOTES:
Intent—Retroactive application—Effective date—2011 c 346: See notes following RCW 7.68.020.