This errata corrects the example on how to budget the shelter deduction when there are excluded household members. Oops. You don’t deduct the amount paid; you prorate the rent. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-05-06 – Q & A re: “Dual Status Children” (May 12, 2006)
Assembly Bill 129 allowed children to be both dependents and delinquents in foster care. Counties must implement a protocol on how/when to make a recommendation for concurrent (DSS and Probation) jurisdiction. This ACIN has Q & A’s, including programmatic issues, such as how the foster care time frames are affected when the child moves between foster care and juvenile detention (they stay the same), same visit requirements, and more. [Download]
ACIN I-05-06 – Q & A re: “Dual Status Children” (May 12, 2006)
Assembly Bill 129 allowed children to be both dependents and delinquents in foster care. Counties must implement a protocol on how/when to make a recommendation for concurrent (DSS and Probation) jurisdiction. This ACIN has Q & A’s, including programmatic issues, such as how the foster care time frames are affected when the child moves between foster care and juvenile detention (they stay the same), same visit requirements, and more. [Download]
ACL 05-13E – Correction to ACL 05-13 – Relative & Nonrelative Extended Family Member (February 15, 2006)
Like Mercedes, the E series is only better. This follows up on an earlier letter (ACL 05-13), informing counties they needed to make a determination and approval of fostercare placements within 30 days. Most of this letter is an unusually legalistic analysis of county determinations regarding assessing relatives prior to foster care placements, and other technical stuff for social workers. What you really want from this letter, as advocates, is the list explaining the 5th degree of relatedness. Great party skill, and useful for welfare applicants. Just remember, Kevin Bacon is the 6th degree. [Download]
Independent Medical Reviews – Experimental and Investigational Therapies – 28 C.C.R. § 1300.70.4
This regulation, effective July 2005, describes the requirements for a plan’s notice to its enrollee when denying coverage on the basis of the treatments’ experimental or investigational status, when it is appropriate to request an IMR for this reason, and the procedure for requesting an IMR. Notably, enrollees applying for IMR under this regulation are not required to participate in the health plan’s grievance system first. [Download]
ACIN I-75-05 – Q & A on Transitional Food Stamps (TFS) (December 7, 2005)
Another one of those “must reads” for those doing Food Stamps. Too many issues to summarize, but this is THE place to go for TFS info. (There’s very little in the regs.) Learn about how going on TFS, then getting reinstated for CalWORKs in the same month, becoming approved in another household or otherwise losing eligibility (fleeing felon, IPV, etc.) affects TFS (not a pleasant answer: they reduce the HH size, but keep counting the income …), the interaction between a new FS application and the TFS benefits, adjusting TFS for worker error during the 5 months “protected” rate period, and more … [Download]