Info on funding, and coverage of child care services to folks in Tribal TANF.  [Download]

CalWORKs exempts recipients living on Tribal Reservations and Rancherias where unemployment is higher than 50%.  This is the list of the areas that triggered the exemption in 2006.  Impacted counties are: Amador, Amador, Butte, Del Norte, Eureka, Humboldt, Inyo, Lake, Mendocino, Modoc, Mono, Riverside, San Diego, San Joaquin, Siskiyou, Sonoma, Tulare.  Folks in areas not on the list can also qualify for the exemption by providing verification from Tribal authorities that they lived somewhere where the unemployment exceeded 50%.  [Download]

That time of year again – the proposed state budget may not include a COLA to the grant, but at least there are COLA’s to the MBSAC.  They are effective 7/1/07, and also affect the Refugee Cash Assistance and Trafficking and Crime Victims Assistance Programs.  Helps applicants….[Download]

A reminder to counties that they are NOT just to send applicants/recipients willy-nilly to EDD to apply for Unemployment Benefits.  Since the EDD files are available on-line to county workers, they are required to check for potential eligibility prior to referring folks to EDD to apply. [Download]

A much needed once-over of the MFG rules.  The letter notes that counties must provide the CW 2102 MFG informing notice form at application and each subsequent annual redetermination. Failure to issue/get the form signed at an annual redetermination that was at least 10 months prior to the birth of the child renders the MFG rule inapplicable.  Prior to applying the rule, the worker is to determine if there was a 2 months or longer break in aid, or the family met another exception.  The letter contains several examples, as well as a reminder that counties must provide interpretive services and written translations, as appropriate. [Download]