For all who do CalFresh (and who doesn’t?), important answers to those burning Semi-Annual Questions. Anticipated income, Notices, supplements, IRTs, Deductions, etc. And, since everyone is confused about this rule, Verified Upon Receipt (VUR) – how to identify what is and isn’t and what to do with those cases. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
CalFresh / SNAP
ACL 13-71: Implementation Of The Work Incentive Nutritional Supplement (WINS) Program Automation (9/10/13)
Working (or otherwise meeting TANF work requirements) and getting CalFresh? Have a minor child related to you (in the CalWORKs-sense) in the household? Not on CalWORKs? You may be eligible for a WINS food benefit (EBT Card) supplement and help California with it’s federal TANF work participation rate! Best yet, it is automatically issued if eligible, without any further being asked of CalFresh families. [WINS is a win-win program. Ok, you can groan.] Read all about it. [Download]
ACL 13-74: CalFresh: New (And Revised) Forms For The Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) System (9/10/13)
New system, new forms. [Download]
ACL 13-65: Revised CalFresh Expedited Service Quarterly Statistical Report (8/12/13)
Announcing the revised CalFresh Expedited Service Quarterly Statistical Report DFA 296X. The form has been revised to change the name from Food Stamps to CalFresh and (more importantly) to reflect compliance with Assembly Bill 1359. NOTE: the form will be posted “by 9/30/13” and is not yet available on line. [Download]
ACIN I-48-13: Annual CalFresh Participants By Race/Ethnicity Group Reports (8/12/13)
A reminder to counties to submit the annuanl CalFresh Participants by Race/Ethnicity reports. [Download]
ACIN I-54-13: Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents Statewide Waiver For FFY 2014 (8/30/14)
Good news out of bad news. California has received a statewide waiver of the Able-Bodied Adults without Dependents (ABAWD) work requirement for Federal Fiscal Year 2014, effective from October 1, 2013 through September 30, 2014. Based on exceeding 10% unemployment. [Download]