The attachment to this letter includes a corrected rotation chart for FRAT (Food Stamp Review and Advisory Team) members who are to be contacted by counties with policy questions and issues. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 08-50: Engagement Of CalWORKs Participants During Breaks In Assigned Activities (10/24/08)
This contradictory letter confirms that ACL 99-65, which directed counties to treat as CalWORKs participation “holiday periods of one week or less, if the employer, provider or work activity site is not open” remains in effect, yet states that counties may, and are encouraged to, assign participants to bridging activities during periods when the participants’ normal activities are temporarily unavailable, including holiday breaks. [Download]
ACIN I-81-08: Independent Living Program (ILP) Annual Statistical Report (10/17/08)
Just a reminder that this report is due by 11/14/08. [Download]
ACL 08-49: Adoption Provisions Of The Adam Walsh Child Protection And Safety Act Of 2006 (10/31/08)
More info on the implementation of SB 703 (to carry out new federal mandates). For all agency adoption applications or in the case of independent adoptions, Adoption Request forms, the adoption agency must ask all adults living in the home to identify other states or U.S. territories they have lived in within the preceding five years. The letter sets out the requirements on checking the non-fingerprint based registry and criminal background checks, and the grievance procedure available if the home cannot be approved after these checks. [Download]
ACL 08-52: Child Welfare Services Disaster Response Plan Update (10/22/08)
Just a reminder to counties that it’s time to update the CWS Disaster Response Plan, plus a listing of some of the new requirements. [Download]
ACL 08-53: Report On The Number Of Children, Ages 5-17, In CalWORKs Families Above The Poverty Level (10/16/08)
Poor counties. Title I, Part A Of The Elementary And Secondary Education Act (ESEA) Of 1965 requires states to submit data on school-aged children in families receivingn cash aid that exceeds the the poverty level. (Huh?) The state’s data systems don’t keep this info, so this letter asks the counties to compile it themselves. The state chips in its effort by providing a form and compiling the local data. The letter clarifies (since no one gets actual cash aid in excess of the FPL) that what the feds meant was households getting more than the PFL level for a family of four, regardless of actual family size: $1,766.67. [Download].