For better or worse, here are “new and improved” forms explaining time limit exception and extension rules to recipients, and the accompanying notices and forms. Not quite clear or complete, but an improvement. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-49-04 – CalWORKs Family Reunification (FR) Program (July 14, 2004)
Although the Family Reunification (FR) regulations were effective in April, the notice is just going out now, the state having given up on writing Q & A’s to clarify the new policy for now. Counties must provide welfare-to-work (“WTW”) activities and supportive services to the parents of children in out-of-home care, via Child Welfare Services, if necessary for family reunification (“FR”). Of note:
• 18- or 24-month time limit does not apply to FR services.
• Sanctioned adults can still get FR WTW services.
• A CalWORKs assessment and WTW plan are required for any WTW activities and services separate and beyond those specified in the FR plan.
• CalWORKs WTW sanction provisions don’t apply to reunification parents if they are soley in an FR (vs. a WTW) plan.
• Time during which a sanctioned individual is a reunification parent counts toward meeting the CalWORKs minimum sanction period. [Download]
Receipt for Documents Form No. 04-185
Want to make your client’s life easier? The state has a revised optional “receipt for documents” form out on line. Keep some copies in your lobby, so when your clients arrive with their paperwork, they can just have this stamped. [Download]
HUD Litigation Handbook Directive 1530.1, REV-5 – May 18, 2004
This revised handbook describes in detail the responsibilities of the HUD Office of General Counsel for handling and monitoring litigation (not administrative proceedings) in which HUD or a HUD official is a party and also when a Department-funded entity such as a Public Housing Authority is a party. It may serve as a useful tool in understanding the HUD OGC hierarchy and why HUD OGC responds as it does when you sue the agency. [Download]
No. 04-168
A reminder to teen parents about continuing aid on the caretaker’s case or independently. (Oddly, this 2003 form is just being transmitted now.) [Download]
ACL 04-167 English/Spanish CalWORKs and Welfare To Work Time Limit Exemption Determination
For those nerds out there: There’s a new English/Spanish CalWORKs and Welfare To Work Time Limit Exemption Determination form out. No substitutes permitted; counties are to destroy old stock. [Download]