The state’s best practice recommendations after a review of county’s successful at reducing foster care placements changes. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACL 12-27: CalWORKs): Extending Benefits To Non-Minor Dependents – Questions And Answers (Part One) (6/12/12)
AB 12 established a new category of youth, Non-Minor Dependents (NMDs), eligible to receive CalWORKs benefits. Now what? Read the Q & A about things like 18/19 year old graduation issues regarding being with caretaker’s AU or independent, relative caretaker eligibility, beginning date of aid for youth leaving a family CalWORKs case, etc. [Download]
ACIN I-34-12: Public Outreach Notices To Recipients And Providers Of IHSS Regarding The Transition From Legacy CMIPS Timesheets To CMIPS II Timesheets (6/12/12)
Transmittal of the outreach materials that explain the new process for submitting timesheets and which reiterate the program rules related to timesheet submission. Expect confusion and questions. [Download]
ACIN I-33-12: Statewide Foster Care Eligibility Training (6/14/12)
Notice to counties and probation of fall Foster Care trainings. [Download]
ACL 11-72E: Change In Sanction Policy Period For Refusal To Cooperate In A Quality Control Review (6/5/12)
A correction to ACL 11-72, which gave incorrect information about the sanction applied when a household member(s) refuses to cooperate in a QC review. The ACL should have stated that if an existing CalFresh household contains a household member(s) who refuses to cooperate, the entire household will be discontinued from the CalFresh Program, not just the individual. If the person who didn’t cooperate moves to a new CalFresh household, the full-household sanction would apply to the new household, but the old household’s members, if they had not been part of the non-cooperation could then be aided. [Download]
ACIN I-45-11E: Verification Requirements In CalFresh (Errata) 6/1/12)
Clarification of the original letter to help counties (a) simplify their verification policies where appropriate, (b) improve the timeliness of the
application process; and (c) improve customer service. And a reminder that, in general, counties should verify only the mandatory eligibility factors for CalFresh unless it is for the purpose of maximizing benefits. Corrections have to do with self-employment income for students, anticipated work study work as a student exemption, and other evidence of rehab to cure a CalFresh drug disqualification. [Download]