Instructions and a new lien form, required by the change in notary laws. The lien form is ONLY for real property, only for CalWORKs and only for certain situations. The granting of the lien to the county allows the CWD to exempt the value of the real property from being counted as a resource, per MPP Section 42-213.12. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-34-10: Subsidized Summer Youth Employment Programs Temporary Assistance For Needy Families Emergency Contingency Fund (4/30/10)
A discussion of the need and funding available for summer youth employment. WIA and Wagner-Peyser funds can be used to help youth gain and retain employment, while TANF ECF can provide subsidized employment and other TANF services to low-income youth. However, as a reminder, WIA and other federal funds cannot be used to make up the 20 percent of expenditures for subsidized employment programs require. State law for TANF ECF limits eligibility to the needy family population to families with a minor child living with a parent or adult relative caregiver; and families in which the minor child is temporarily absent for up to 12 months, due to child abuse and neglect, and the parent or parents are engaged in family reunification services. As long as a youth who is 24 years of age or younger is residing with an eligible family and is related to the minor child, he or she may be placed in TANF ECF subsidized employment. Youth, in a foster care placement with a CalWORKs or needy family are also eligible for TANF ECF subsidized employment. In this situation, the foster care youth does not have to be related to a member of the eligible family. Emancipated youth who are no longer in a foster care placement and who are 24 years old or younger are only eligible if they are residing with a CalWORKs or “needy family” in which the emancipated youth is related to the minor child. [Download]
ACL 10-24: CalWORKs 60-Month Time Limit Exemption For CalWORKs Recipients Living In Indian Country Where The Unemployment Rate Is Fifty Percent Or Higher (4/29/10)
The latest list of counties. [Download]
ACL 10-18: FNS Census 2010 Demonstration Project-Exclusion Of Earned Income Of Temporary Census Employees (4/19/10)
Information and instructions regarding a Food Stamps demonstration project to exclude earned income from temporary employment in the 2010 Census. The Project is effective January 1, 2010. Counties are to begin excluding income earned by census takers retroactive to January 1, 2010 through September 30, 2010. The information in ACL 09-26 to treat census income as earned income in CalWorks, Refugee Cash Assistance, and the Trafficking and Crime Victims’ Assistance Program still applies. [Download]
ACL 09-60E: Clarification To The Definition Of A “Single Custodial Parent” And For Instructions For Data Related To The Family’s Participation In Work Experience For The Two-Parent Rate (4/26/10)
Correction: The definition of a “single custodial parent” in the original letter omitted the word “adult,” and erroneously included the phrase “work eligible” in its place. The definition of a single custodial parent is: “the parent of an aided child and the only adult and/or minor child head of household living in the home.” [Download]
ACIN I-29-10: CalWORKs WTW Emergency Regulations Implementing Requirements Regarding Federal Fiscal Penalty Pass-Through (4/20/10)
Transmits the emergency regulations implementing AB 1808, which clarified that a TANF penalty shall be shared by the state and counties after exhaustion of federal administrative remedies. Half of the federal fiscal penalty the state incurs will be shared by the state and by the counties that contributed to the state’s failure. AB 1808 also added provisions that permit additional county penalty relief under the following circumstances: If CDSS determines there were circumstances beyond the control of the county; Based on the degree of success or progress in meeting federal requirements; and, to the extent there are differences between the state and federal program requirements. [Download]