Ringing out the old year with clarifying instructions on how and when to document that the county offered and provided interpretive services to clients. Includes review that an offer, in the client’s primary language, of interpretive services and written materials, must record the reason why a applicant/recipient declines material in their primary language. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACWDL 08-61: Medi-Cal budget calculation chart (12/31/2008)
This letter contains, as you may have guessed from the title, the updated Medi-Cal Budget Calculation Chart. [Download]
ACWDL 08-60: 2009 Tuberculosis income standard and related issues (12/23/2008)
$1,433 is the 2009 TB income standard for an individual. $2,000 is the 2009 resource limit for an individual. If the applicant is married counties count only income in their own name, and only separate property plus half of any community property. The 2009 SSI standard allocation for an eligible child with ineligible parents is $337; the federal benefit rate is $674 for an individual and $1,011 for a couple. [Download]
ACWDL 08-59: Removal of the other health coverage codes from the MEDS for adults and children who have left homes where they have been victims of domestic violence (12/23/2008)
This letter clarifies the procedures counties need to follow to have an other health coverage code removed from a beneficiary’s account when he or she has survived domestic violence and the abuser is the person who has the other health coverage. To have the code removed counties can either e-mail or call TPL with the survivor’s name, CIN, and date of birth, name of the insurance carrier, and a statement indicating that the other health insurance is blocking access to care for the abused victims. [Download]
ACIN I-98-08: Impact Of The “Extension For Elderly And Disabled Refugees Act” On CAPI (12/23/08
CAPI recipients with a certain immigration status that they may be eligible for an extension of SSI. Under H.R. 2608, refugees and other humanitarian immigrants (asylees, persons granted withholding of deportation or removal, Cuban and Haitian Entrants, Amerasians, and victims of human trafficking) are now potentially eligible for SSI/SSP for at least two additional years. Applicants or recipients may be eligible if they meet certain Lawful Permanent Resident (LPR) criteria. They may also be eligible for payment retroactive to October 1, 2008 regardless of when they request reinstatement to SSI/SSP. Counties are required to refer all recipients in the specified statuses to their local SSA office to apply for SSI/SSP. The notice instructs counties to do this even if the recipient does not meet one of the six LPR criteria. SSA has not yet published its final rules, and the state wants the referral in case the may qualify for SSI based on other criteria that has not yet been identified. [Download]
ACIN I-60-08: Title XX Social Services Block Grant Expenditure Report (12/24/08)
A summary of the state’s Title XX expenditures, program responsibilities, and the population served that is submitted annually to the federal HHS. [Download]