This report summarizes Title XX expenditures, program responsibilities, and the population served. The programs covered are Child Welfare Services, Foster Care, Community Care Licensing, Deaf Access, CalWORKs Child Care, CDE Child Care Programs, and the DDS Regional Center Program. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-42-14: The Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Option Program (8/1/14)
Introductory information regarding the Approved Relative Caregiver (ARC) Funding Option Program enacted by SB 855. Relatives who care for a non-federally eligible child in foster care is not eligible to receive foster care payments. Instead, the relatives can get CalWORKs payments. The CalWORKs benefits are not a per-child payment, however, but are based on the size of the family as a whole, and are less than the AFDC-FC rate. To address this issue, the Legislature has enacted the ARC Funding Option Program, which gives counties the option to provide funding equal to the basic foster care rate to an approved relative caregiver of a non-federally eligible child. [Download]
ACL 14-47: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS REGARDING SIPs IN THE CalWORKs WELFARE-TO-WORK PROGRAM
The latest info on SIPs, of note, including “structured education plans” that include a transfer to a 4 year college. [Download]
ACIN I-37-14: (CalWORKs: Final Regulations To Implement AB 1712 And AB 212 Non-Minor Dependents (7/10/14)
Passing on the emergency regulations on Non-Minor Dependents (NMDs), as well as some CalWORKs changes. (The CalWORKs changes include exempting NMD’s from: Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System requirements; state residency requirement when placed with an approved relative who resides out-of-state; referral to the local child support agency for child support payments (for NMD’s over age 19 and if living with their own minor children). [Download]
ACL 14-39: CalWORKs: COLA Increase To The Minimum Basic Standard Of Adequate Care Levels (6/12/14)
Announcing the increase of 2.17% in the need standard (not the grant). Effective July 1, 2014. Includes the new charts by region, and the new income in kind valuations. [Download]
ACL 14-30: CalWORKs : Inter-County Transfer (ICT) Procedures, Revised CW 215 Form (5/2/14)
CDSS modified some Inter-County Transfer (ICT) processes, pursuant to AB 1612, and sent along a new ITC form to go with it. The sending county is to send the application (SAWs 1 and 2) and the new county is not to require the individual to reapply, unless the change in circumstances is such that a determination of continuing eligibility cannot be made without it. Rather, the new county is to just seek updated information. The ICT does not result in the change of the redetermination/renewal process. If a family moves out of the county during either of the last two months of the
redetermination/recertification period, the sending county and receiving county will need to complete the redetermination/recertification in sufficient time to avoid its expiration during the ICT process. The sending county may complete the redetermination/recertification and then transfer the case to the receiving county, or the receiving county may complete it [Download]