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ACL 10-11: Elimination of Food Stamp Sanctions for Noncompliance with Substitute Program Work Requirements

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Having been reminded yet again that it cannot make up “extra” rules for federal programs, the State directs the counties in through this ACL to discontinue the practice of imposing food stamp sanctions when a recipient fails to comply with work requirements of a substitute program (GA/GR and Refugee Resettlement Programs). No later than October 25, 2010, counties must stop imposing sanctions required in MPP §63-407.54 when the substitute program work requirements are not also the individual’s Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) mandatory assignment. [Download]

ACL 10-37: CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work Emergency Regulations Implementing Assembly Bill X4 4

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Sometimes good things come from the legislature. This ACL transmits emergency regulations to amend the Welfare-to-Work (WTF) program requirements pursuant to Assembly Bill X4 4 that modified the WTF and 60-month time clock exemptions. The changes in WTF rules (1) exempt parents (or primary caretaker relatives) of a single child from 12 to 23 months of age or two or more children younger than six years old from WTW activities and stops the 60-month clock, and (2) stop the 60-month time clock for individuals who are granted good cause for non-participation due to lack of supportive services. Both provisions are set to remain in effect until July 1, 2011.  [Download]

ACL 10-38: AFDC-Foster Care California Necessities Index Increase in Group Home Rates

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Following up on ACL 10-15 regarding the adjustment of group home rates pursuant to the court order in California Alliance of Child and Family Services v. Allenby, this ACL provides a chart with new rates for the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2010. The new rates are slightly higher than those for the prior fiscal year.  [Download]

ACL 10-29: CalWORKs Federal Deficit Reduction Act—Impact Of Change In Child Support Unassigned Arrears (7/16/10)

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A tad late, but this provides notice of the changes to child support assignment of pre-assistance arrears resulting from the implementation of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act (FDRA) of 2005. The Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) issued policy letter CSS 09-14 on September 23, 2009 regarding the requirement to assign support as a condition of eligibility for CalWORKs cash aid. An aided family is no longer required to assign their pre-assistance child support arrears as a condition of eligibility for public assistance. Effective October 1, 2009, the FDRA limited the assignment to the amount of support that accrued during the period that a family receives aid, not to exceed the cumulative amount of the “unreimbursed assistance pool (UAP).” To address the fact that families may have had their cases handled incorrectly for almost 2 years, the state “strongly encourage CWDs to notify applicants and recipients that they may begin to receive Child Support payments in excess of the child support $50 disregard, and that they need to report this income, if it exceeds the Income Reporting Threshold (IRT). Also includes information on unticking the months on aid. [Download]