Lists informing notice language that counties must issue by December 1, 2012 and provides general information regarding the new WTW 24-Month Time Clock and required hours of participation. Counties are required to modify plans when requested, and the notice must have county-specific information on how to request the plan change. The ACL contains a new form (CW 2205) to be sent to all aided (and sanctioned) adults, including optional members of the AU, except not those excluded for the young-child exemption, who will be reengaged later. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-50-12: Revision Of The CalFresh Notice Of Approval/Denial/Termination Transitional Benefits Due To The Implementation Of AB 959 (10/16/12)
New NOAs and instructions to implement AB 959, which provides for the restoration of aid for Public Assistance CalFresh (PACF) households discontinued for not submitting a timely or completed quarterly report (QR 7). Under AB 959, households receiving Transitional CalFresh benefits shall not receive regular CalFresh benefits during the same month. Therefore, if a household receives Transitional CalFresh benefits in a given month, regular CalFresh benefits will be restored to the household the first of the following month. [Download]
ACL 11-79E: Correction To ACL 11-7 (Interstate Compact On The Placement Of Children (ICPC) Regulations) (10/10/12)
Oops. The original letter says “receiving” instead of “sending” state in a key place. [Download]
ACIN I-49-12: The IHSS 2009 Hospital Stay Error Rate Study Report (10/10/12)
WIC 12305.7 requires CDSS to conduct annual error rate studies to estimate the extent of payment and service authorization errors and fraud in the provision of supportive services. CDSS initiated the 2009 Hospital Stay Error Rate Study to determine the extent of duplicate Medi-Cal payments made to IHSS providers while their recipients were hospitalized. The outcome is this report. [Download]
ACL 12-47: Revisions To The Statewide Fingerprint Imaging System Brochure (10/2/12)
10 months after the repeal of finger-imaging for CalFresh folks, DSS has issued a new PUB brochure on the SFIS system…which removes the references to CalFresh. It also “authorizes” counties to “strike out” (with a handy Sharpie?) the reference to CalFresh in the SAWs2 application. Not sure how that is done for on-line applications…. The spiffy new brochure is attached, and now explains why SFIS is used for CalWORKs and GA, and the limits of its usage. [Download]
ACL 12-42: Cross-Reporting Child Abuse And/Or Neglect To Licensing Agencies (9/27/12)
A reminder of the obligation not only to investigate abuse/neglect, but also to report foster homes to licensing where problems are suspected. This is because licensing and CPS have different roles. [Download]