Well, the original ACL was right…as far as it went. This errata clarifies that the information about tax credits and refunds applies also to the Refugee Cash Assistance, the Entrant Cash Assistance, and the Trafficking and Crime Victims Assistance Programs. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACL 11-17: Workers’ Compensation Insurance Coverage For Participants In The CalWORKs Program And The CalFresh Employment And Training Program (2/16/11)
Updated information on Worker’s comp for CalWORKs and CalFresh E & T. Worker’s comp covers CalWORKs And CFE&T activities “including but not limited to” Unpaid Work Experience, Unpaid Community Service, and Subsidized Employment. Claims information and processing details. [Download]
ACL 11-13: CalWORKs And CalFresh Changes In The Treatment Of Federal Tax Credits And Refunds In The CalWORKs And CalFresh Programs (2/2/11)
Instruction to CWDs regarding changes in the way federal tax credits and refunds will be treated in the CalWORKs and CalFresh Programs, as a result of passage of H.R. 4853, the Tax Relief Bill. Regulations currently require that income tax refunds be treated as non-recurring lump sum payments and counted as resources in the month received. Effective December 17, 2010, counties must exempt all federal income tax credit and refund payments from resource consideration for CalWORKs and CalFresh applicants and recipients for 12 calendar months starting with the month of receipt of the payment. (It’s already exempted as income). CWDs must also exempt all EITC and Making Work Pay Credit payments as income and resources for 12 calendar months, regardless of whether the HH had been participating in the CalFresh or Food Stamp Programs at the time of receipt. [Download]
ACL 11-04: CalWORKs Family Reunification Services – Q & A (1/27/11)
After a CPS removal of children from the home, the parents can continue to get CalWORKs WTW services as part of a Family Reunification (FR) plan, for up to 180 days (with good cause extensions). This letter transmits a series of questions and answers initiated by counties regarding FR services. Parents on sanction or penalty (WTW, school attendance, immunization, etc.) can also be required to have an FR plan, but not those ineligible for CalWORKs (e.g. SSI, timed out, barred nonviolent (drug) felons, etc.) Parents in a voluntary placement can have a voluntary FR plan. Cases that are closed for “no eligible child” can be reopened, without reapplication, as a CalWORKs FR case. Families which have children remaining in the home are not FR cases (as all children must be gone). [Download]
ACIN I-103-10: Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Publications – 2010 Revisions (12/29/10)
The latest outreach pubs for the EITC program. Spread them wide and far! Bad news is that federal law eliminated advance pay EITC, starting 1/1/11. [Download]
ACIN I-104-10: CalWORKs IRT For Quarterly Reporting (12/14/10)
The latest in the Income Reporting Thresholds… they are unchanged for Fiscal Year 2010-11. [Download]