This ACWDL reminds counties that women on PE Medi-Cal do not get full coverage. Workers should give women on PE information on how to apply for Medi-Cal and retroactive Medi-Cal. The retroactive Medi-Cal can cover things PE did not cover, such as labor and delivery. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACWDL 08-26: New alpha-numeric aid code (E1) for Healthy Family bridging of unverified citizens (6/18/2008)
This aid code is for children who have not satisfied the Medi-Cal citizenship/ identity requirements within the reasonable period and are being bridged to Healthy Families. These are children who are on limited scope Medi-Cal due to their lack of citizenship/ identity verification and who have newly been assessed a share of costs. This aid code gives them a month of limited scope no share of cost Medi-Cal while Healthy Families evaluates their eligibility. There are citizenship requirements to be in Healthy Families but the proof the two programs require are different, so a child who did not have the documentation to get on full-scope Medi-Cal may still be able to meet the eligibility requirements for Health Families. [Download]
ACWDL 08-24: New limits and disregards for the Aged and Disabled Federal Poverty Level Program for 2008 (6/10/08)
Per ACWDL 08-06 the ADFPL limit for a couple was supposed to change from 1524 to 1558 on June 1. This did not happen because the COLA increase was delayed until October 1 2008. The ADFPL limit will remain 1524 until October 1 at which point it will increase to 1558. [Download]
ACIN I-49-08: Revisions To CalWORKs Notices Of Action For Welfare to Work (6/27/08)
New summer look to those tired old WTW notices. Budgets on a separate page, no reference to durational sanctions (that wicked witch is dead!), changes after a review by the grammar police, including making the NOAs more “translation friendly.”  [Download]
ACL 08-30: Disaster Food Stamp Benefit Identifier Types (6/20/08)
The four automated eligibility systems are required to be able to track disaster food stamps benefits. By this letter, CDSS informs them of the codes and reporting requirements for Disaster Food Stamps Benefits, Disaster Food Stamps Supplemental Benefits, and Replacement Food Stamps Benefits. [Download]
ACL 08-22: Transitional Food Stamp Policy Changes/Household Member Is Approved For Benefits In Another Food Stamp Household (6/23/98)
Currently, when a household member leaves a Transitional Food Stamps (TFS) household and is approved for benefits in another food stamp household, the individual is removed from the benefit amount, but the individual’s income is not removed for purposes of calculating the TFS benefit for the remaining members. This results in the income being considered in both households.
The FNS has found this policy out of with federal regulations. CWDs must therefore recompute the TFS benefit for the remaining TFS household members by removing the individual from the TFS household along with his/her income, if any. This change is effective September 1, 2008. [Download]