Clarification of the recert process for Food Stamps and new notices. The new forms must be used starting no later than January 1, 2009. No more check box that says “call your worker.” Instead, the county must send one notice listing the end of the certification period, and another with an actual appointment date. The appointment letter states whether in person or by phone. [Download]
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ACWDL 08-28: Revision to All County Welfare Directors Letter 08-14 (6/30/2008)
This ACWDL updates the format and content of the NOAs and Consent forms for the Healthy Families Program/ Medi-Cal joint application. The NOAs and consent forms are now available in the eleven threshold languages. [Download]
ACWDL 08-27: Retroactive coverage for presumptive eligibility for the pregnant women program (6/18/2008)
This ACWDL reminds counties that women on PE Medi-Cal do not get full coverage. Workers should give women on PE information on how to apply for Medi-Cal and retroactive Medi-Cal. The retroactive Medi-Cal can cover things PE did not cover, such as labor and delivery. [Download]
ACWDL 08-26: New alpha-numeric aid code (E1) for Healthy Family bridging of unverified citizens (6/18/2008)
This aid code is for children who have not satisfied the Medi-Cal citizenship/ identity requirements within the reasonable period and are being bridged to Healthy Families. These are children who are on limited scope Medi-Cal due to their lack of citizenship/ identity verification and who have newly been assessed a share of costs. This aid code gives them a month of limited scope no share of cost Medi-Cal while Healthy Families evaluates their eligibility. There are citizenship requirements to be in Healthy Families but the proof the two programs require are different, so a child who did not have the documentation to get on full-scope Medi-Cal may still be able to meet the eligibility requirements for Health Families. [Download]
ACWDL 08-24: New limits and disregards for the Aged and Disabled Federal Poverty Level Program for 2008 (6/10/08)
Per ACWDL 08-06 the ADFPL limit for a couple was supposed to change from 1524 to 1558 on June 1. This did not happen because the COLA increase was delayed until October 1 2008. The ADFPL limit will remain 1524 until October 1 at which point it will increase to 1558. [Download]
ACIN I-49-08: Revisions To CalWORKs Notices Of Action For Welfare to Work (6/27/08)
New summer look to those tired old WTW notices. Budgets on a separate page, no reference to durational sanctions (that wicked witch is dead!), changes after a review by the grammar police, including making the NOAs more “translation friendly.”  [Download]