Transmits new forms and document instructions for monthly caseworker visits with foster children. The new forms are tje Foster Family Agency Agreement (SOC 154A) and Foster Family Agency Contact/Service Delivery Log (SOC 160). [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACL 10-24: CalWORKs 60-Month Time Limit Exemption For CalWORKs Recipients Living In Indian Country Where The Unemployment Rate Is Fifty Percent Or Higher (4/29/10)
The latest list of counties. [Download]
ACL 10-18: FNS Census 2010 Demonstration Project-Exclusion Of Earned Income Of Temporary Census Employees (4/19/10)
Information and instructions regarding a Food Stamps demonstration project to exclude earned income from temporary employment in the 2010 Census. The Project is effective January 1, 2010. Counties are to begin excluding income earned by census takers retroactive to January 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010. The information in ACL 09-26 to treat census income as earned income in CalWorks, Refugee Cash Assistance, and the Trafficking and Crime Victims’ Assistance Program still applies. [Download]
ACL 09-60E: Clarification To The Definition Of A “Single Custodial Parent” And For Instructions For Data Related To The Family’s Participation In Work Experience For The Two-Parent Rate (4/26/10)
Correction: The definition of a “single custodial parent” in the original letter omitted the word “adult,” and erroneously included the phrase “work eligible” in its place. The definition of a single custodial parent is: “the parent of an aided child and the only adult and/or minor child head of household living in the home.” [Download]
ACIN I-29-10: CalWORKs WTW Emergency Regulations Implementing Requirements Regarding Federal Fiscal Penalty Pass-Through (4/20/10)
Transmits the emergency regulations implementing AB 1808, which clarified that a TANF penalty shall be shared by the state and counties after exhaustion of federal administrative remedies. Half of the federal fiscal penalty the state incurs will be shared by the state and by the counties that contributed to the state’s failure. AB 1808 also added provisions that permit additional county penalty relief under the following circumstances: If CDSS determines there were circumstances beyond the control of the county; Based on the degree of success or progress in meeting federal requirements; and, to the extent there are differences between the state and federal program requirements. [Download]
ACIN I-33-10: Expiration Of The IHSS Plus Waiver And Approval Of An State Plan Option (4/21/10)
Presto chageo, out with the old, in with the new. This notice informs counties that California got approved for a Social Security Act § 1915(j) Self-Directed Personal Assistance Services State Plan Option program, known as the IHSS Plus Option (IPO). The IPO became effective October 1, 2009. Read all about how to transition of the IHSS Plus Waiver (IPW) population to the IPO. [Download]