Author: Brian Lawlor

Educational Awards/Scholarships and Eligible Teens’ Exemption (comments were due by 1/14/04)

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These emergency regulations exempt as income any awards or scholarships provided by a public or private entity to, or on behalf of, a CalWORKs child based on the child’s academic or extracurricular achievement or participation in a scholastic, educational, or extracurricular competition. It also exempts from welfare-to-work 16 and 17 year olds who graduated High School or obtained a GED, and who are enrolled or are planning to enroll in a post-secondary education, vocational, or technical school training program. [Download]

ACL 03-66 – Several emergency regulations (i.e. immediately effective) are out, and are described in ACL 03-66

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  • Transitional Food Stamps (Reg Packet 1003-23) – Individuals and families losing public assistance eligibility remain on Food Stamps for 5 months at the last allotment level, without reapplying, unless terminated because moving out of state or for a sanction. The certification period is readjusted to the end of the 5 months, and the County is to send a timely notice regarding the need to reapply prior to ending the food stamps.
  • Face-to-Face interview waiver (same as above) – Counties are now required to screen applicant families to see if they need a waiver of the face-to-face interview. (Before it used to be when requested by the family, who, of course, didn’t know they could get a waiver.) The county is to grant, as appropriate, for hardship, when the family can’t appoint an Authorized Representative to come in.
  • New Vehicle rule (ACL 03-66; Reg Packet 1003-27) – The property resource for CalWORKs is now $3,000 for disabled households, as well as aged, and other Food Stamps car rules now apply and are reprinted in the CalWORKs regs. (AB 231, which would permit excluding a car altogether, requires separate federal approval prior to implementation.) [Download]