Assembly Bill X 4 19 provided funding for 78 special positions for that law’s anti-fraud initiative for the IHSS program. This ACL explains the scope of responsibilities for these special staff, whose roles differ from those of the “quality assurance” staff already working in IHSS administration. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
Author: SkeeterHawk
ACIN 1-66-10: Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System (SFIS)
Evidently, this ACIN was necessary to remind counties that they actually need to process the fingerprint images they collect from applicants to find possible fraud or administrative error. In case anyone was not clear on this, the act of imaging the fingerprint is not enough to detect and prevent fraud. In the event this ACIN needs further clarification, CDSS is also offering training resources to counties. [Download]
ACL 10-27: Humanitarian Parole Policy for Certain Haitian Orphans
This ACL clarifies that Haitian Orphans entering the U.S. after January 12, 2010 with a Form I-94 (Arrival-Departure Record) or with a visa showing they have been lawfully admitted for permanent residence are immediately eligible for food stamps, providing all other requirements for eligibility are met. Sponsor deeming does not apply for these children, nor does the five-year residency requirement. [Download]
ACIN 1-41-10: Food Stamp Questions and Answers
The Food Stamp Review and Advisory Team (FRAT) is at it again, with even more questions and answers about Food Stamps. This installment covers how to count weekend days for purposes of expedited food stamp processing, whether to exclude child support payments by a spouse from SSI/SSP funds from income, a couple of state-to-state travel issues, when to remove a child from the food stamp household when he or she is removed and placed in another home, a complicated pro-rating scenario, unavailability of food stamps to a mother whose children are in foster care but stay with her part of each week and exclusion of “Assets for Independence” funds from resources. [Download]
ACIN 1-62-10: The New Federal Home Visitation Grant Program
One of the lesser-known benefits of the federal health reform package is a $1.5 billion program to fund voluntary maternal, infant and early childhood home visits. In California, the Maternal Child and Adolescent Health Division of the Department of Public Health is taking the lead in the grant application process to draw down these federal funds and has launched a website with information about the program. The State Plan to administer the program is due in early 2011. [Download]
ACL 10-11: Elimination of Food Stamp Sanctions for Noncompliance with Substitute Program Work Requirements
Having been reminded yet again that it cannot make up “extra” rules for federal programs, the State directs the counties in through this ACL to discontinue the practice of imposing food stamp sanctions when a recipient fails to comply with work requirements of a substitute program (GA/GR and Refugee Resettlement Programs). No later than October 25, 2010, counties must stop imposing sanctions required in MPP §63-407.54 when the substitute program work requirements are not also the individual’s Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) mandatory assignment. [Download]