Notice to “all interested parties” as well as counties that starting October 19, 2010, there is a 12-month moratorium on applications for Foster Care group home rate applications for any of the following: a new program; a new provider; a program change, such as a rate classification level increase; a program capacity increase; and a program reinstatement. CDSS may grant an exception to the moratorium on a case-by-case basis. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 10-63: Child Welfare Services (CWS) Disaster Response Plan Update (12/28/10)
A reminder to counties to update and submit their Disaster Plans. The plans must include how a to continue to provide services to current dependents/wards; how to serve new cases; how to deal with disrupted worker communications, preserving records, and coordinating services and sharing information with other states. [Download]
ACIN I-103-10: Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Publications – 2010 Revisions (12/29/10)
The latest outreach pubs for the EITC program. Spread them wide and far! Bad news is that federal law eliminated advance pay EITC, starting 1/1/11. [Download]
ACIN I-102-10: Food Stamp Program Noncitizen Eligibility Reference Guide (12/29/10)
The long-await revision to the Food Stamps (aka SNAP, aka CalFresh) immigrant eligibility manual. Beautifully formatted, with a very complete index. (Now if only it had active page-jump links!) [Download]
ACIN I-83-10: Disaster Guidance Attachment – Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program/Disaster CalFresh Program Income Eligibility Standards And Allotments (12/24/10)
New Disaster SNAP Income Eligibility Standards and Allotments Attachment, effective October 1, 2010, but the actual standards and allotments remain unchanged for Federal FY 2011. [Download]
Adoption Assistance regulations packet open for public comment
Comments are due by February 16, 2010. See Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) Regulations Revisions, ORD No. 0710-06.