The Healthy Families Program/ Medi-Cal joint application has been revised. Changes to the application include a lower reading level, a table of contents, and a documents needed checklist. The applications now include an option for applicants to consent to have their information forwarded to their County Healthy Kids Program if they do not qualify for full-scope Medi-Cal or Healthy Families. The application also provides a space for pregnant woman to indicate how many babies they are expecting. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACIN I-27-08: CalWORKs And Food Stamps: Treatment Of Tax Rebates Provided By The Economic Stimulus Act Of 2008 (4/9/08)
Squeaked out just before tax day, the perhaps tardy letter on Tax Rebates: they don’t count as a resource in the month of receipt or the following two months. They’re also exempt income for CalWORKs and Food Stamps. [Download]
ACL 08-01E: Foster Care, Kinship Guardianship, Assistance Payments Program, And Adoption Assistance Program Rates (4/11/08)
The corrected wraparound rates, effective January 1st, 2008. [Download]
ACIN I-19-08: Sibling Mutual Consent Program – Confidential Intermediary (3/28/08)
In 2007, Family Code Section 9205 was amended to permit adoptees and siblings greater opportunities to initiate and make contact with each other. (See ACL 07-17.) This ACIN “regrets to inform” counties that, due to budgetary shortfalls, Governor Schwarzenegger vetoed funding for implementation of AB 2488, stating that implementation of the program would be delayed for one year. Furthermore, the state has recommended repealing AB 2488 altogether. [Download]
ACL 08-14: CalWORKs Wage Subsidies (4/10/08)
Mostly about county coding, but noted for describing AB 98. AB 98 added WIC Sect. 11322.63, which provides for CDSS to reimburse counties for 50 percent of a CalWORKs recipient’s wage subsidy outside of the county Single Allocation.The reimbursement is limited to a maximum of six months for each recipient. 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. In 2001, the state must report to the legislature about the wage subsidy program. [Download]
ACIN I-11-08: Good Standing Letter For Intercountry Adoptions (3/28/08)
The “how to’s” of getting a Good Standing letter. Available only to licensed agencies, and not individuals. Includes a reminder that when adoption agencies are facilitating adoptions with non-Hague Convention countries, requests may be made by these countries that may be outside the parameters of California’s laws and regulations. As such, the adoption agency and prospective adoptive family may find the CDSS is unable to accommodate these requests, and the adoption may be at risk. Accredited agencies must inform a prospective adoptive family in the adoption services contract whether it will or will not provide any post-adoption services, such as reports. [Download]