This is a “mind your Q’s and P’s” letter, that reminds counties that in calculating CalFresh, the budget must include exact dollars and cents. The final figure shall be rounded down for calculations that end in 1 through 49 cents and rounded up for calculations that end in 50 through 99 cents. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 11-36: Suspension Of The CalWORKs Cal-Learn Program For FY 2011-12 (4/21/11)
More budget cut fall out: This explains the temporary demise of CalLearn, and how the pregnant and parenting teens will be folded into welfare to work. Includes new notices of the changes and appointment letters. Teens still must get their diploma or GED, still get bonuses, will face WTW sanctions (instead of a flat $100 penalty) and will not have case management services. [Download]
ACL 11-35: New Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (KIN-GAP) Program Caseload Movement Report (4/29/11)
A new form for federal Kin-GAP cases, to supplement the existing state form. [Download]
ACL 11-33: CalWORKs Program: New 48th-Month Time Limit For CalWORKs Adults (4/29/11)
First in a series of letters to implement SB 72 budget cuts. [Download]
ACIN I-26-11: TANF Penalty For Failure To Meet Work Participation Rate Requirements In FFY 2009 (5/5/11)
The good news is that California, after appealing, got its Federal work participation fiscal years 2007 and 2008 reduced to zero. Bad news is – we failed again, by 2.2%, for the all-families rate. DSS has appealed, citing recession, disasters, our being one of the few states that doesn’t have full family sanctions, etc., and also has attached a survey to counties to allow individual counties to assert reasonable cause. [Download]
ACL 11-24: Duties And Responsibilities Of Adoption Service Providers (4/14/11)
Clarification on what one can do as an Adoption Services provider vis-a-vis the birth parents. Attorneys acting as an ASP may not provide services to the prospective adoptive parent(s), nor can an ASP who has completed a home-study of the prospective adoptive parent(s). The letter also lists when ASPs are required to provide services. [Download]