This notice renews much of last year’s notice on the same subject, including the restrictions on approval of an extra bedroom for family caregivers and rotating caregivers. The notice includes a specific provision for seeking reasonable accommodation, a mechanism that advocates might use to seek exception such restrictions. [Download.]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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PIH Notice 2009-39 Prohibition on Public Housing Agencies Charging Application Fees (9/25/09)
This notice reiterates HUD’s long-standing policy that public housing agencies may not charge application fees to households applying for admission to public housing or the Housing Choice Voucher Program. [Download.]
ACWDL 09-42: Medi-Cal Referrals and BCCTP –County Responsibilities (9/15/09)
Counties are responsible for referring Medi-Cal applicants and beneficiaries with breast cancer to BBCTP. If an applicant or beneficiary may be disabled she should be referred for a disability determination as well as referred to BCCTP. Beneficiaries losing Medi-Cal eligibility should not be cut off until a determination has been made by BCCTP. The letter lays out step by step the process counties are supposed to take in different situations. [Download]
ACL 09-42: TANF Emergency Contingency Fund: Subsidized Employment (9/15/09)
Program instructions for implementing the expansion of CalWORKs subsidized employment programs through the TANF Emergency Contingency Fund (ECF). Counties can expand subsidized employment programs now, but access to TANF ECF funds for county programs is contingent upon federal approval, and counties would be on the hook if denied. The letter also provides instructions re: providing such positions to low-income needy families who have not previously been eligible for TANF. (Guidance for implementing new expanded basic assistance and nonrecurring short-term benefits under TANF ECF will be released under a separate All County Letter.)
States may be reimbursed up to 80 percent of increased TANF/TANF MOE spending in FFY 2009 and FFY 2010 on any of the following three categories:
1. Increased basic assistance expenditures, as long as there is an increased caseload
2. Increased expenditures for subsidized employment
3. Increased expenditures for non-recurring short-term benefits.
All expenditures related to operating a subsidized employment program, including the cost of overseeing the program, developing work sites, and providing training to participants, may be claimed. Includes a list of eligible populations. [Download]
09-028 ERRATA: SOC 826 Child Fatality/Near Fatality County Statement Of Findings And Information (9/8/09)
This Errata transmits a revised form SOC 826 that was attached to the original ACIN. [Download]
ACL 09-41: CalWORKs And Food Stamp Programs Quarterly Reporting Q&A’s (9/2/09)
Answers questions about anticipated and fluctuating income, verifying decrease or termination in income and the weekly/bi-weekly multipliers. Highlights: not counting SSI or UI income that is awarded but no started date indicated, budgeting $0 income if people indicate they “have no idea” about inconsistent income, and accepting an affidavit if unable to verify drop/stop in income. [Download]