California ID cards will now be only $6 for people receiving CalWORKs, Foster Car, Kin-Gap, Food Stamps, CAPI (and the related California Food Assistance Program, SSI, and Refugee Cash Assistance. On Medi-Cal? Too bad, you’re not covered. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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Proposed Revised Regulations
Proposed revised regulations are out for public comment, due December 29, 2005. The changes address: State Participation and Beneficiary Choice; Employment Network (EN) Payment Systems; and a new requirement, that an employment network report to the Program Manager each time it requests to take a ticket out of assignment. SSA also is seeking comments on four additional issues: (1) whether a beneficiary should be eligible for more than one ticket in a period of entitlement for SSDI or SSI benefits; (2) whether and how to simplify the definition of “using a ticket;” (3) whether the evidence requirements for EN payment are unnecessarily burdensome; and (4) whether there are any circumstances under which SSA should pay both Phase 1 and Phase 2 milestones to an EN for beneficiaries who assign their ticket after SSA has made a payment to the State VR agency under the cost reimbursement payment system. [Download]
ACL 04-46 – Glesmann v. Saenz Impact On Relative Caregiver Approval (November 19, 2004)
While this case is on appeal, counties are required review all pending applications for license exempture for those convicted of second degree robbery with a Certificate of Rehabilitation (okay, so maybe you don’t see a lot of these …). At issue in the case was CDSS’ policy of counting this situation as a non-exemptable offense. Counties must allow these applications for exemption to proceed. [Download]
ACIN I-73-04 – Food Stamps Q&As (October 13, 2004)
Put your sanction foot in, take your grant amount out … Answers to those pesky questions about the relation between CalWORKs and Food Stamps sanctions, budgeting, and other Q & A’s, for those who get into this kind of thing. Helpful info on homeless shelter deductions and loan/vendor pay issues. (Did you know that verification of homeless housing costs is not required, just proof of a “reasonable expectation” of a housing expense? That partial rent paid to the landlord is a non-income vendor pay, but the shelter deduction is based on the rent actually paid by the FS recipient?) [Download]
ACIN I-72-04 – Transitional Food Stamp Q&As (October 12, 2004)
What ACIN I-73-04 does for regular FS, this one does for the transitional Food Stamps (TFS) program … Interesting answers, like granting TFS for someone erroneously denied CalWORKs, then found eligible for one pro-rated month (get a full TFS grant); how to handle new household members coming in during the TFS period (no change unless household reapplies); county TFS responsibility for inter-county move cases (the county that last had the CW case), what to do with unreported income during TFS (trick question: there is no income reporting during TFS!), etc. [Download]
IRS Revenue Ruling 2004-82
In this ruling, the IRS confirms, citing the legislative history of the low-income tax credit statute (I.R.C. Section 42), that evictions or terminations of tenancy from tax credit developments must be based on good cause. The ruling also provides that with respect to certifying or re-certifying eligibility to reside in a low-income tax credit unit, a tenant may submit a sworn self-certification that she or he is not receiving child support. The ruling also contains a discussion of the “available unit rule” as it relates to tenants whose income increases to above 140 percent of the tax credit income limitation. [Download]