Info on the new data entry requirements for the Child Welfare Services/Case Management system. Effective 10/1/10, systems must document all ILP type services provided to foster youth and former foster youth, including those supervised by probation. Notice of 5% penalties for noncompliance with the requirements. As it gets closer to NYTD implementation, CDSS will release an ACL detailing information on training, data collection for aftercare and probation and other implementation concerns. Counties are encouraged to email questions, so the state can work on them. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-02-10: Exclusion From Income and Resources/Payments To Certain Filipino World War II Veterans (1/26/10)
The ARRA created a Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund, which provides for certain veterans and the spouses of those veterans to receive a one-time payment of up to $15,000. The law specifies that these benefits are not to be used to determine eligibility for or amount of benefits in any federal program. The provisions were effective April 1, 2009. CWDs must determine if any retroactive payments were received since that time, but are only required to review cases for retroactive payments at recertification, or when it is discovered that a Filipino veteran received a payment from the Fund. CWDs must then determine if the payment not excluded, and take corrective action to restore benefits. [Download]
Emergency Regulation Comment Period
TANF penalty pass on (to Counties) regulations are up for comment. Period closes 3/17/10. [Download]
ACL 09-81: Child Welfare Services Disaster Response Plan Update (12/31/09)
A request to all County Child Welfare Services and Probation to send in updates to the Disaster Plan. [Download]
74 FR 66548 – SAFE Mortgage Licensing Act: HUD Responsibilities Under the SAFE Act [Proposed Rule] [12/15/09]
The Secure and Fair Mortgage Licensing Act (SAFE Act) was enacted on July 30, 2008 as part of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008. The SAFE Act, among other things, requires states to adopt licensing and registration requirements for loan originators within certain minimum standards. If HUD determines that a state fails to establish such minimum standards consistent with the SAFE Act, HUD must then establish and implement a licensing system in that state. This proposed rule sets forth the SAFE Act’s minimum licensing requirements for loan originators and delineates the HUD procedure for determining a state’s compliance therewith and procedures for taking over the licensing system in the event of a state’s non-compliance. Comments on this proposed rule are due on February 16, 2010. [Download.]
HUD Notice H 9-20 – Enterprise Income Verification (EIV) System [12/07/09]
Related to the most recent federal housing related posting, we post a link to the above-entitled HUD Housing Notice that may be of use to advocates. A primary purpose of this Notice is to provide updated guidance to owners and management agents of HUD assisted housing regarding the use of data in EIV for verifying employment and income at recertification of individuals participating in HUD rental assistance programs. [Click here to get to the HUDCLIPS page and then click on the link to H 9-20.]