Info on calculating fair market value/exclusions of non-exempt property, drug felonies, loans, and more. And, in the perverse world of benefits, if you save your own retirement funds (IRAs, Keoghs) they are not exempt, but if done through an employer (401(k) and 403(b) plans) they are. Go figure. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-79-06 – Requirement to Include Notice of Missed Interview in the Food Stamp Denial Cases (October 31, 2006)
A bit of a roundabout way of passing on info that Regs@LSNC has not seen before. Turns out when the county wants to deny a Food Stamps application for failure of the household to attend the application interview, it must send a notice stating that the household must schedule a new meeting. This letter reminds counties that the DENIAL is incorrect if they cannot document that they sent this notice, and will count as an error rate. Sounds like a defense to the denial, too, if the household doesn’t get the notice and reapplies after the 30 days … [Download]
Administrative Notice 07-01 – Gift Cards and Food Stamps
Good for them. FNS decided that gift cards, which can be used as cash, but generally only at specific businesses, will not count as a resource. [Download]
ACIN I-52-06E – Food Stamp Questions And Answers (Q&As) (September 21, 2006)
This errata corrects the example on how to budget the shelter deduction when there are excluded household members. Oops. You don’t deduct the amount paid; you prorate the rent. [Download]
ACIN I-72-06 – Federal Fiscal Year 2006, 15% Exemption Allocations For Able-Bodied Adults Without Dependents (ABAWDs) (September 22, 2006)
Listing the number of exemptions per county, plus which counties have waivers for what period of time. A reminder that if counties are under an ABAWD waiver (they don’t limit FS recipients to 3 in 36 months), they are not to use the exempitons, which (duh) are for those counties that apply the ABAWD rule. [Download]
ACL 06-37 – EBT Support Services for the Disaster Food Stamp Program (September 12, 2006)
Information to help counties “evaluate the needs for benefit issuance in the event of a disaster.” Learn about such things as pre-embossed disaster EBT cards, EBT “interface systems” (with the scar reminder that they may require “priority modifications” to the counties’ eligibility systems). This 27 page letter also reviews which agencies do what, and how to trigger Disaster Food Stamps. [Download]