Hot off the press, the revised CalFresh application form, implementing instructions, and a list of the forms made obsolete by the new app. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-58-13: CalFresh: Implementation Of The Semi-Annual Reporting System Q & A’s (9/12/13)
For all who do CalFresh (and who doesn’t?), important answers to those burning Semi-Annual Questions. Anticipated income, Notices, supplements, IRTs, Deductions, etc. And, since everyone is confused about this rule, Verified Upon Receipt (VUR) – how to identify what is and isn’t and what to do with those cases. [Download]
ACIN I-51-13: Instructions For The Annual Report For The Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention And Treatment, Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, Promoting Safe And Stable Families; And County Children’s Trust Fund Programs (9/10/13)
Instructions on the annual reporting process for the county Child Abuse Prevention, Intervention and Treatment, Community-Based Child Abuse Prevention, Promoting Safe and Stable Families programs, County Children’s Trust Fund and Child Abuse Prevention Council. [Download]
ACL 13-73: Providing Services To The Katie A. Subclass; Semi-Annual Progress Reports For Katie A. Implementation For The Time Period Of May 15, 2013-August 31, 2013: Due On October 18, 2013 (9/9/13)
The letter outlines the expectations for county Child Welfare Departments and Mental Health Plans for providing Specialty Mental Health Services, and preparing and submitting semi-annual progress reports related to Specialty Mental Health Services for children who have an open child welfare case. Part of the Katie A. implementation. [Download]
ACL 13-71: Implementation Of The Work Incentive Nutritional Supplement (WINS) Program Automation (9/10/13)
Working (or otherwise meeting TANF work requirements) and getting CalFresh? Have a minor child related to you (in the CalWORKs-sense) in the household? Not on CalWORKs? You may be eligible for a WINS food benefit (EBT Card) supplement and help California with it’s federal TANF work participation rate! Best yet, it is automatically issued if eligible, without any further being asked of CalFresh families. [WINS is a win-win program. Ok, you can groan.] Read all about it. [Download]
ACL 13-68: CalWORKs: Fourth Set Of Questions And Answers For SB 1041 CalWORKs WTW Program Changes (9/10/13)
Part of the series of Q & As to explain the details of the radical changes to CalWORKs welfare to work brought about by SB 1041. Goes over hours of participation, ed activities, general 24 month time clock Q’s, and transition issues. [Download]