Like your favorite movie, this one has (will have) a sequel. AB 12 provided for extended Foster Care after the youth turns 18, as described in ACIN I-40-11. The young adults who remain under the jurisdiction of the court, in EFC after age 18 are referred to as Non-Minor Dependents (NMDs). The extension of benefits also applies to Adoption Assistance Payments (AAP) and Kinship Guardianship Assistance Payment (Kin-GAP). See ACL 11- 15 for information on Kin-GAP; more ACLs on extended Kin-GAP and AAP are coming soon. Long ALC, with a table of contents is included to assist in finding specific information within this ACL. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-59-11: CalWORKs Program: Changes To Restricted Accounts (10/12/11)
Although SB 1341 was effective January 1, 2009, this Notice is now providing the changes to the Restricted Accounts for CalWORKs and CalFresh recipients and to the spend down rules for eligibility to Homeless Assistance (HA) payments. Effective January 1, 2009, families can use funds held in restricted accounts to help pay for securing permanent rental housing or to pay for rent arrearages to avoid becoming homeless. In addition, any savings that are held in a restricted account are now considered exempt from being counted toward the $100 limit when determining eligibility for HA. CWDs should ensure that no CalWORKs recipients have been discontinued from January 1, 2009, forward, due to withdrawing funds to pay for costs associated with securing permanent rental housing or to pay rent arrearages to avoid becoming homeless. If discontinuances are discovered, they should be rescinded and eligibility re-determined retroactively, as necessary. [Download]
ACIN I-65-11: SNAP Guidance On Noncitizen Eligibility (10/14/11)
Just a notice that FNS has posted it’s non-citizen guidebook. (State already did one, nah nah!) [Download]
ACL 11-66: CalWORKs: Questions And Answers For The New 48-Month Time Limit For CalWORKs Adults (10/5/11)
Answer to all those burning new 48 month time limit questions. Discusses budgeting CalFresh after timing out when sanctioned in CalWORKs at the time, teen parents, aid paid pending, [Download]
ACIN I-68-11: CalWORKs) Program: Compromising Or Suspending Collection Of Non-Fraudulent Overpayments (10/4/11)
A reminder to counties that regulations permit compromising the amount or suspend the collection of non-fraudulent OPs in the CalWORKs program when it is not cost-effective to pursue them, and set out some suggested standards. [Download]
ACIN I-67-11: Termination Of The County Requirement To Establish SSI Advocacy Programs For CAPI Recipients (9/30/11)
Passing on a change that happened 4 months ago. As of July 1st, 2011, counties with 70 or more CAPI cases are no longer required to have advocacy programs to get folks onto SSI. For the counties that choose to continue these programs after July 1, 2011, CDSS will reimburse those counties for admin costs through June 30, 2012, except for attorney or authorized representative fees. Those fees will be reimbursed through the close of the first quarter of the current fiscal year which ends September 30, 2011. No further reimbursements for attorney or authorized
representative fees will be made after this date. [Download]