CDSS has issued information about drought relief programs. One such program is the Drought Food Assistance Program that provides low income individuals and families with three to five days of food if they live in one of 29 designated counties and are unemployed or underemployed as a result of the drought. Households self-certify and agree that the food received is for personal home use only. The food boxes are distributed by local food banks. Another program is the Drought Water Assistance Program to assist low income households with residential water utility bills in 10 counties. CDSS also distributed a brochure about drought relief programs. ACIN I-62-15 (7/22/15).
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
multiple programs
ACIN I-48-14: Ethnic Origin And Primary Language Report ABCD 350 For July 2014 (8/29/14)
A reminder to counties that it is time to turn in the annual Ethnic Origin and Language information. [Download]
ACL 13-103: Processing Consumer Requests For Referral To The CalFresh Or CalWORKs Programs Under The ACA (12/18/13)
Instructions on “interoperability” of the “horizontal integration” to facilitate processing consumer requests for a referral to the CalFresh or CalWORKs programs when they have applied for a health insurance affordability program. [Download]
ACL 13-96: CalWORKs And CalFresh: Revised SAWS Application Forms (12/11/13)
Revised public assistance application forms (and instructions for the counties) in preparation for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act January 1, 2014. Includes new terms of art vocabulary! (Interoperability and Horizontal Integration.)
ACA required the development of a “streamlined, multi-program application,” resulting in the new SAWs2 Plus application.
Effective January 1, 2014, individuals and families who wish to apply for CalFresh only should use the recently revised CF 285, and those indicating they want to apply for health care programs only, should use the DHCS Single Streamlined application (SSApp.) Attachment One
explains what application forms to use and when to use them.
The SAWS 1 has been revised to include the applicant’s preferred method of contact, email address, the ability to request messages via email. It’s use will be limited to when people can’t complete a full application on the same day, in order to preserve the beginning date of aid. [Download]
ACIN I-73-13: 2013 Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Publications (12/2/13)
As we reach the end of the year…it’s time for EITC outreach! And here are the annual outreach materials. [Download]
ACIN I-47-13: Ethnic Origin And Primary Language Report ABCD 350 (8/28/13)
State nudge to counties to turn in their annual “ABCD 350” so we all can see the language and ethnicities in the caseload. [Download]