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]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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]
ACL 08-48: Sharing Ratios For Group Home Programs FY 2008-09 (11/14/08)
Listing of the new rates, effective 10/1/08. [Download]
ACIN I-72-08: Revised Disaster Food Stamp Program (DFSP) Guide And Revised DFSP Income Standards And Allotments (11/14/08)
Here is the updated (as of 4/08) Disaster Food Stamp guide, and the new (effective October 1, 2008) benefits charts. [Download]
ACL 08-59: CalWORKs Subsidized Employment Claimed Under Assembly Bill 98 (11/24/08)
The ACL transmits the newly developed reporting form and instructions to report on AB 98 subsidized work. The first report month will be January 2009, with the final report month, December 2010. AB 98 provides for reimbursement to counties choosing to participate in this program. (Reimbursement is for 50% of the CalWORKs recipient’s wage subsidy, outside of the county Single Allocation, when the recipient is participating in subsidized employment.) In order for counties to claim the additional funds, the county program must limit wage subsidies to a maximum of six months for each recipient and the amount of wage subsidies claimed outside of the Single Allocation may not exceed 50 percent of the maximum aid payment for the assistance unit of which the recipient is a member. [Download]
ACIN I-90-08E: Correction To All County Information Notice No. I-90-08 Statewide Foster Care Eligibility Training (12/23/08)
New dates for the date and location for the statewide Foster Care Eligibility Training for Northern California. [Download]