This notice implements the funding provisions resulting from Congress’ enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005. The notice locks in the budget-based process for allocating Section 8 voucher funds to public housing authorities (PHAs) implemented in 2004 and offers guidance to PHAs as to how HUD will make such allocations. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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PIH Notice 2004-24 – Income Calculation and Verification Guidance Re Medical Prescription Drug Cards and Transitional Assistance (November 10, 2004)
This notice provides guidance to public housing authorities (PHAs), project owners and other interested parties regarding the determination of annual and adjusted income in HUD’s assisted housing programs under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of 2003, Public Law 108-173. The notice provides that “in calculating annual income for a family, any assistance or benefit received from the Medicare discount card or the transitional assistance [subsidy] must be excluded … for the purpose of calculating any rent or assistance … [and] must be treated as a standard medical deduction when determining the family’s medical expense deducation.” The notice also provides guidance for PHAs and owners on how to verify a tenant’s status as a beneficiary of the Medicare discount card program. [Download]
ACL 04-54 – Regional Market Rate (RMR) Regulations (November 29, 2004)
Striving for regularity through regulations, not Metemusil. These final regulations bring uniformity to the Regional Market Rates for CalWORKs and other subsidized child care programs. (Portions of the emergency regulations were suspended with the budget trailer bill.) Of note: Payment to license-exempt providers cannot exceed the RMR ceilings; Parents may utilize multiple providers if a single provider cannot accommodate the certified need for care, broader coverage of private recreation programs exempt from licensure. [Download]
DHS ACL 04-31 – Questions and Answers on SB 87 Medi-Cal Redetermination Process for Discontinued SSI/SSP Beneficiaries as Ordered in Craig v. Bonta (October 22, 2004)
Clarifies the policy directives in ACL 03-24. Clarifies that if the SSA discontinuance reason is “no longer disabled” the beneficiary can still allege a disability but it must be a disability different from the disability under which the SSI/SSP was granted. Discusses ongoing eligibility for Personal Care Services (PCS) and In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) during redetermination. [Download]
DHS ACL 04-29 – CalWORKs Family Reunification Program (October 7, 2004)
Informs counties of the CalWORKs Family Reunification (FR) Program. FR cases are CalWORKs cases in which the children have been removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care by the county child welfare services agency. Under CalWORKs rules, the children are considered temporarily absent from the Assistance Unit while their parents are receiving reunification services. However, under federal Medicaid rules the children are not considered temporarily absent because they have been removed from the home. Therefore the reunification parents are not eligible for Section 1931(b) and Medically Needy Medi-Cal programs. The letter reiterates that the Medi-Cal eligibility worker must reevaluate the case to determine whether the parents qualify under another Medi-Cal program. [Download]
DHS ACL 04-28 – New Camera-Ready Notices of Action and Transitional Medi-Cal Flyer (August 30, 2004)
Provides counties with copies of English and Spanish Notices of Action (NOAs) that were revised to reflect the requirements from Midyear Status Reporting, SB 87, and Sneede v. Kizer net nonexempt income determination. The Transitional Medi-Cal (TMC) flyer has been revised to reflect the elimination of the second year of TMC. [Download]