New law, new instructions re: Inter-state adoption placement compacts (ICPC). The new provisions relate to full-service licensed private adoption agencies. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-33-13: CalWORKs: Posting Displacement Grievance Guidelines For Non-Union Employees At Worksites With WTW Participants (7/9/13)
Updated guidelines regarding the requirement for Counties to provide non-union employees with information about their rights to file displacement grievances. The grievance process is used to resolve complaints filed by nonunion employees who believe assignment of a WTW participant to community service, work experience, OJT, grant-based OJT, or subsidized employment violates any of the displacement provisions contained in MPP Section 42-720.1. Includes a discussion of what the required posting must include. [Download]
ACIN I-39-13: Homeless Youth (7/8/13)
Time to tackle barriers to CalFresh for homeless youth, here by passing on an FNS memo debunking many misconceptions on the subject. Covers such items as requiring photo ID, a permanent address, and that there is an eligibility age requirement. [Download]
ACIN I-38-13: Implementation Of Assembly Bill 402 97/3/13)
Instructions to implement AB 402, which allows Local Education Agencies (a school district or county office of education) and CWDs to share information regarding school lunch participants who may be eligible to receive CalFresh benefits. [Download]
ACL 13-57: CalFresh: New (And Revised) Forms For The Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) System (7/5/13)
Trickle down from the change from Quarterly to semi-annual reporting — new forms! [Download]
ACL 13-54: CalFresh Integrity Plan; Excessive Card Replacement Process (7/1/13)
Important information on California’s CalFresh anti-fraud plan, including the process the state will follow to investigate “excessive EBT card replacement requests.” CDSS will issue warning letters to recipients who have received and used four or more EBT replacement cards in the past four months. The CWDs have the option to issue additional warning letters to the client, or refer the case to the SIU for a possible fraud investigation. [Download]