This letter has revisions to the effective date of the 2008 SSI/SSP cash grant levels. The SSP COLA increases originally scheduled for June 1, 2008 have been delayed. The ACWDL includes handy charts showing the rates from January 1, 2008 to September 30, 2008 and from October 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008. The rate for an independently living couple where both are aged or disabled rises from the current $1,524 to $1,558 on October 1. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
ACWDL 08-12: Economic stimulus act of 2008 (4/3/2008)
Any credits or refunds from the stimulus package are not to be counted as income or resources for the month of receipt and the following two months. Woohoo! [Download]
Also please note, for anyone who regularly checks for new all county welfare director letters, new letters are now only posted on the DHCS website. The DHS website has older letters but it appears the site is no longer being updated as new letters come out.
ACIN I-20-08: Psychotropic Medications (3/26/08)
Part of an ongoing series of letters to ensure correct data reporting and documentation in child welfare cases. This one pertains to Authorized Psychotropic Medication, which must be reported under W&IC § 16010’s requirement to maintain a health and education record that includes current medications, including those prescribed to manage a mental health condition.
For dependents of the juvenile court with a prescribed psychotropic medication, court authorization or parental consent for the administration of the medication shall be documented in the child’s record. Part of an ongoing series of letters to ensure correct data reporting and documentation in child welfare cases. This one pertains to Authorized Psychotropic Medication, which must be reported under W&IC § 16010’s requirement to maintain a health and education record that includes current medications, including those prescribed to manage a mental health condition. [Download]
ACIN I-26-08: 2008 Cost-Of-Living Adjustments That Affect CAPI (4/1/08)
With love from the state, a CAPI Payment Standards chart with the grant that will be effective on October 1, 2008. There are no changes to the 2008 rates for the Presumed Maximum Value of In-Kind Support and Maintenance, Allowance for Ineligible Children in Deeming Situations, Sponsor’s Allocation in Deeming Situations, or COLA Coordination When One Spouse Receives SSI/SSP as a result of this change. [Download]
ACIN I-23-08: IHSS Provider Direct Deposit (PDD) (3/27/08)
This ACIN provides descriptions of outreach and enrollment activities that will occur prior to implementation, the ongoing processes for administering PDD and modifications to CMIPS screens that will allow counties to identify payments made to providers via PDD. The CDSS will be implementing PDD on May 1, 2008, as an optional way for providers to receive their IHSS payroll warrants. Providers who wish to continue to receive their pay warrants in the mail do not need to return the Provider Direct Deposit Enrollment/Change/Cancellation form or take any other action. Our buddies at EDS will distribute and process all PDD mailings, as well as enrollments, changes and cancellations. When a deposit fails, EDS will request issuance of a paper warrant to the provider and the provider will be required to re-enroll in PDD. [Download]
ACL 08-16: Vu Settlement Agreement And Survey Of Languages Requiring Translation Of Food Stamp Program and CalWORKs Joint Forms (3/25/08)
Pursuant to court settlement, the state needed to survey county food stamp service area language populations and then translate forms into any newly identified languages. This letter informs counties that all Food Stamp Program (FSP) forms
and specified forms jointly used with the CalWORKs program now will be translated into: Cushite, Formosan, Japanese, Mien, Punjabi, Portuguese, Syriac, and Ukrainian. The above languages are in addition to the Arabic, Armenian, Cambodian, Chinese, Farsi, Hmong, Korean, Lao, Russian, Spanish, Tagalog, and Vietnamese translations. (PS: Since Formosan uses written Chinese, this is probably not a new form language.) The bigger news: the state is not providing additional funding for automation, since “due to the limited number of applicants/recipients expected to require and/or request forms in the identified languages.” Counties are reminded they must use the forms, however, and how to get them on the internet. [Download]