Implementing the law, and clearing up any confusion about homeless youth’s eligibility for CalFresh. The counties must accept the application for benefits, screen for whether the youth can be in his/her own CalFresh household, and whether eligible for expedited services. Oh yeah, and being a minor doesn’t deprive you of due process: homeless youth are entitled to a notice of action regarding the application determination. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACL 13-105: Updated Guidance On County Submission Of Annual Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement Plans (12/24/13)
County instructions to meet the requirement for an annual IHSS Quality Assurance/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) Plan. The state will be issuing instructions later on the creation of a County Policy and Procedures site, where the “static” plan components set out in ACIN No. I-64-05 will be maintained. Counties no longer need to report annually on these components. [Download]
ACL 13-102: (12/24/13)
Making life easy… Recipients can now verify CalFresh Dependent Care costs through self-certification. Further proof is only required if the statement is questionable. (Expenses are only allowed if the service is provided by someone outside of the household and the household makes an out-of-pocket payment (i.e. not an in-kind trade) for the care. Once verified, no further verification is required unless the provider or amount changes. [Download]
ACL 13-99: CalWORKs Regulations To Implement The Semi-Annual Reporting (SR) System (12/19/13)
Just passing on the regs implementing SAR. The bulk of it was already in ACL No. 12-25. [Download]
ACL 13-103: Processing Consumer Requests For Referral To The CalFresh Or CalWORKs Programs Under The ACA (12/18/13)
Instructions on “interoperability” of the “horizontal integration” to facilitate processing consumer requests for a referral to the CalFresh or CalWORKs programs when they have applied for a health insurance affordability program. [Download]
ACL 13-96: CalWORKs And CalFresh: Revised SAWS Application Forms (12/11/13)
Revised public assistance application forms (and instructions for the counties) in preparation for the implementation of the Affordable Care Act January 1, 2014. Includes new terms of art vocabulary! (Interoperability and Horizontal Integration.)
ACA required the development of a “streamlined, multi-program application,” resulting in the new SAWs2 Plus application.
Effective January 1, 2014, individuals and families who wish to apply for CalFresh only should use the recently revised CF 285, and those indicating they want to apply for health care programs only, should use the DHCS Single Streamlined application (SSApp.) Attachment One
explains what application forms to use and when to use them.
The SAWS 1 has been revised to include the applicant’s preferred method of contact, email address, the ability to request messages via email. It’s use will be limited to when people can’t complete a full application on the same day, in order to preserve the beginning date of aid. [Download]