Announcing that FNS has approved California’s waiver for e-notice, and implementation instructions. CalFresh sweeps in CalWORKs (which didn’t need a waiver), so the two main programs are now on board. Medi-Cal is seeking approval to join the party. Under this waiver, households can choose to get an electronic notification of official correspondence. The waiver will become effective once programmed by statewide automated welfare systems. (The notice tells you to go to a secure on-line account to view the actual notice.) CalFresh and CalWORKs clients may opt opt out and get traditional paper correspondence at any time. The instructions include what happens if the e-notice is not received/retrieved. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-40-13: Release Of The CalWORKs MBSAC Region Two Table To Assign A Value to In-Kind Assistance Only To Determine Indigence In The CalFresh Program (7/15/13)
A note to counties that they can use the aid-in-kind charts for Region 2 to determine sponsor support, when the support is in-kind, to determine the amount of income through sponsor deeming and whether the indigency exemption applies. [Download]
ACL 13-51: CalWORKs Immunization And School Attendance Notices Of Action (NOAs) And Immunization Information (7/16/13)
New NOAs, ensuring that caretakers are advised whether the verification was not received or that the verification shows a problem, and listing good cause reasons to avoid the penalty. [Download]
ACL 13-52: CalWORKs New Young Child 48-Month Time Limit And WTW Participation Exemption Clarifying Guidance (7/16/13)
Q & A’s clarifying the new “once in a lifetime” young child (under 2) exemption. Includes topics such as sharing between parents, going on-off aid, changing your mind on using the exemption, etc. [Download]
DHCS ACWDL No.13-15: Follow Up Questions and Answers to ACWDL No 13-03, Screening of Child Applicants in the Age Group 6-18 for Potential No-Cost Medi-Cal Eligibility Under Section 1931(b) Before Enrolling Them into Healthy Families
Pretty self explanatory. Click here to read the letter.
DHCS MEDIL No. 13-07: Extension of Former Foster Care Children’s (FFCC) Program
This MEDIL provides guidance to counties on the expansion of the FFCC program to comply with federal law, which requires that, starting January 1, 2014, former foster youth be covered by Medi-Cal up to age 26. DHCS has directed counties to grant an additional six months eligibility minimum for former foster youth set to age out of the FFCC program between July 1, 2013 and December 31, 2103. The letter can be downloaded here.