Guidelines to implement the CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work Expanded Subsidized Employment (ESE) Program resulting from the passage of
AB 74. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACL 13-83: Implementation Of The Uniform Statewide Protocols For Program Integrity Activities In The In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Program (9/27/13)
The new IHSS anti-fraud protocols. Although some info on staff training and provider communications, the main thrust is on home visits. Random home visits are prohibited, but otherwise home visits are specifically sanctioned “to ensure that the services authorized are consistent with the recipient’s needs at a level which allows him/her to remain safely in his/her home, and to validate the information in the case file.” [Download]
ACL 13-80: CalWORKs And Calfresh Programs New And Revised Notice Of Action (NOA) Messages And Forms For The Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) System (9/26/13)
The third and final set of forms and NOA messages to be used under SAR. [Download]
ACL 13-66: Documented Unmet Need (9/30/13)
Instructions/reminder about documenting unmet needs, and how that works with the IHSS cuts. “Documented unmet need” is a recipient’s total hours for non-Protective Supervision IHHS that are in excess of the statutory maximum. The Unmet need is supposed to be indicated on the Notice of Action, and the social worker identifying alternative resources to meet that need. [Download]
ACIN I-63-13: Changes To The Disaster Guidance Attachment – Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Income Eligibility Standards And Allotments – Effective November 1, 2013 (9/25/13)
Info on the expiration of the ARRA provisions, and the fact that the max allotments are going down (but there will be no change to the posted D-SNAP max income amounts listed in ACIN I-62-13). Rates for 11/13 thru 9/14 are attached. [Download]
ACL 13-76: CalWORKs 1041 Implementation Surveys 99/27/13)
For the counties…part of SB 1041 requires monitoring the changes to CalWORKs WTW. As part of that, DSS developed a County Implementation survey. Surveys will be sent out several times over the next 18-24 months. [Download]