Find the answers to those pressing Food Stamp questions. Topics include changes to the Utility allowances, and obligated child support payments. Good things such as applying the child support deduction first to unearned income (vs. earned). The ACIN also includes revised budget worksheets to deal with the child support changes. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-78-06: County Refugee Program Guidelines (10/19/06)
The State Refugee Program Bureau (RPB) has issued new Program Guidelines for the different Refugee work programs. Parts of the letter and Guidelines apply to all counties, and part to the 12 “impacted” counties. Information about refugee services plans, approvable work and training, and more. The Guidelines themselves are located elsewhere on the RPB site. [Download]
ACL 06 – 58: Implementation of the Changes to the Homeless Assistance Program (12/14/06)
A Q & A on the changes to the Homeless Assistance (HA) program to include homeless prevention. Covers such things as whether: the payment of rent arrearages counts as the “once in a lifetime” homelessness aid payment (yes), the HA program can pay the full rent arrearages in shared housing with non-CalWORKs members (no); payment of arrearages is required if it won’t prevent the eviction (no). The ACL also includes a discussion of extraordinary circumstances and financial hardship, giving some examples, but ultimately leaving this to the discretion of the county and their “reasonable assessment of the facts.” [Download]
ACIN I-91-06: Food Stamp Q & A (12/5/06)
Info on calculating fair market value/exclusions of non-exempt property, drug felonies, loans, and more. And, in the perverse world of benefits, if you save your own retirement funds (IRAs, Keoghs) they are not exempt, but if done through an employer (401(k) and 403(b) plans) they are. Go figure. [Download]
ACIN I-89-06: Revised Family Fee Schedule (11/27/06)
This ACIN transmits the new family fee schedule for subsidized child care that will be effective 1/1/07. [Download]
ACIN I-85-06 – January 2007 COLA For CAPI (November 16, 2006)
Because the pass-through of the federal SSI COLA was reinstated effective January 1, 2007, the CAPI payment standards will also change at the same time. CAPI payments are based on the SSI/SSP payment standards, minus $10.00 for an individual and $20.00 for a couple. (The one exception is the Title XIX medical facility standard, which will not increase because there is no federal SSI COLA for this living arrangement.)
These changes also affect: In-kind Support and Maintenance, the allowances for Ineligible Children and Parent-to-child Deeming; the Sponsor’s Allocation in Alien Deeming, and the CAPI/SSI combo couple. Comes with a handy-dandy chart. [Download]