CDSS issued guidance about treatment of federal and state Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) for purposes of eligibility for CalWORKs and CalFresh. For both programs, both federal and state EITC is permanently excluded as income and does not count as a resource for 12 months. CDSS strongly encourages counties to notify recipients.
CDSS also describes eligbility for both federal EITC and the new California EITC that begins for the 2015 tax year. ACL 15-87 (11/2/15).