The letter provides the 2008-2009 Income Reporting Threshold (IRT) chart ….effective 10/1/08. It also reviews the IRT rules and informing notice requirements. The IRT rules also apply to the Refugee Cash Assistance and Trafficking and Crime Victims Assistance Programs. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 08-54: Instructions Regarding The Supplement To The Rate Paid On Behalf Of A Dual Agency Child (12/1/08)
This ACL provides instructions and a form for determining eligibility for, and the appropriate level of the supplement to, the regular “dual-agency” rate. The supplement is based on “extraordinary care and supervision needs”. (A dual agency child is a child receiving Foster Care or Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) benefits and who is concurrently a consumer of California regional center services due to a developmental disability, and/or a child receiving services under the California Early Start Intervention Services Act.) The children must be three years of age and older to be eligible for the supplement; counties have sole discretion to determine a supplement, which cannot exceed $1,000 per month. The ACL also has a Q & A section, and reviews the use of the “Supplement to the Rate Eligibility Form (SOC 836).” [Download]
ACL 08-59: CalWORKs Subsidized Employment Claimed Under Assembly Bill 98 (11/14/08)
The ACL transmits the newly developed reporting form and instructions to report on AB 98 subsidized work. The first report month will be January 2009, with the final report month, December 2010. AB 98 provides for reimbursement to counties choosing to participate in this program. (Reimbursement is for 50% of the CalWORKs recipient’s wage subsidy, outside of the county Single Allocation, when the recipient is participating in subsidized employment.) In order for counties to claim the additional funds, the county program must limit wage subsidies to a maximum of six months for each recipient and the amount of wage subsidies claimed outside of the Single Allocation may not exceed 50 percent of the maximum aid payment for the assistance unit of which the recipient is a member. [Download]
ACIN I-93-08: 2009 COLA for CAPI and Benefit Amount When Spouse Receives SSI/SSP (12/2/08)
Although the state COLA was suspended, the federal SSI COLA gets passed through. This Notice provides the COLA effective 1/09, the new standards, and a reminder how to do the calculations for various things like aid-in-kind, deeming, and coordination when the spouse receives SSI. [Download]
ACIN I-84-08: 2008 COLA That Affects The CAPI Program (11/25/08)
The notice transmits the CAPI payment standards. As a result of the SSP COLA suspension, there are no changes to the 2008 rates for the Presumed Maximum Value of In-Kind Support and Maintenance, Allowance for Ineligible Children in Deeming Situations, Sponsor’s Allocation in Deeming Situations or COLA Coordination When One Spouse Receives SSI/SSP. [Download]
ACIN I-89-08: Revised SOC 824 Quarterly Report And Instructions (11/26/08)
Some instructions to address two issues with the Quarterly Report on Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) for Personal Care Services Program (PCSP), IHSS Plus Waiver (IPW) and IHSS Residual (IHSS-R) Program. (Let’s hear it for shorter program names!) 1. Reviewed cases for which a final determination of status was not completed within the reporting quarter – accounting for those cases lacking a final determination caused a discrepancy in the math. 2. Federal reporting requirements mandate that counties be allowed to report their level of compliance with the Individual Emergency Back-Up Plan (see ACL 07-08). The SOC 824 was revised to allow for this accounting/reporting. [Download]