Important changes for Non-Assistance CalFresh folks regarding the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CFET, formerly the FSET program.)  SB 43 adds additional deferral criteria to which all E&T counties must adhere, irrespective of their existing deferral policies.  By mandating additional bases for deferral, more CalFresh recipients will be able to avoid any problems with CFET sanctions (as sanctions are only for mandatory, and not volunteer, CFET folks).  The letter lists all the deferral criteria, as well as the counties that did not qualify for the “work surplus” deferral.  For those counties, the letter lists the cities within the counties which are “work surplus” and thus also must defer non-assistance CalFresh recipients.  Counties that have decided to maintain an all-voluntary CalFresh E&T program will not need to monitor their work surplus status.  Unfortunately, all work registrants who are currently in sanction for noncompliance with E&T, who would otherwise deferred from E&T given the passage of SB 43, must continue in sanction until their minimum durational sanction ends or if they would qualify for an exemption to work registration.  (The deferral is not an exemption that can end a sanction.) [Download]