Announcing the new (and very quick deadline) energy assistance program for families (200% poverty) facing utility shut-offs. Applications through The Salvation Army; need a minor child in the household. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACIN I-68-10: Elimination Of Electronic Benefit Transfer (EBT) Cash Access At Certain ATMs (8/26/10)
Information about the response to the Executive Order issued by the Governor, to eliminate access to EBT at casinos and certain other places. CDSS also states it will review access plans to ensure that the loss of the ATM access doesn’t impact cash availability to recipients. [Download]
ACL 10-37: CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work Emergency Regulations Implementing Assembly Bill X4 4
Sometimes good things come from the legislature. This ACL transmits emergency regulations to amend the Welfare-to-Work (WTF) program requirements pursuant to Assembly Bill X4 4 that modified the WTF and 60-month time clock exemptions. The changes in WTF rules (1) exempt parents (or primary caretaker relatives) of a single child from 12 to 23 months of age or two or more children younger than six years old from WTW activities and stops the 60-month clock, and (2) stop the 60-month time clock for individuals who are granted good cause for non-participation due to lack of supportive services. Both provisions are set to remain in effect until July 1, 2011. [Download]
ACL 10-29: CalWORKs Federal Deficit Reduction Act—Impact Of Change In Child Support Unassigned Arrears (7/16/10)
A tad late, but this provides notice of the changes to child support assignment of pre-assistance arrears resulting from the implementation of the Federal Deficit Reduction Act (FDRA) of 2005. The Department of Child Support Services (DCSS) issued policy letter CSS 09-14 on September 23, 2009 regarding the requirement to assign support as a condition of eligibility for CalWORKs cash aid. An aided family is no longer required to assign their pre-assistance child support arrears as a condition of eligibility for public assistance. Effective October 1, 2009, the FDRA limited the assignment to the amount of support that accrued during the period that a family receives aid, not to exceed the cumulative amount of the “unreimbursed assistance pool (UAP).” To address the fact that families may have had their cases handled incorrectly for almost 2 years, the state “strongly encourage CWDs to notify applicants and recipients that they may begin to receive Child Support payments in excess of the child support $50 disregard, and that they need to report this income, if it exceeds the Income Reporting Threshold (IRT). Also includes information on unticking the months on aid. [Download]
ACIN I-59-10: Updated Two-Parent County Work Participation Rates (FFY 2008) (7/14/10)
Corrections to the 2008 rates. [Download]
ACIN I-60-10: CalWORKs Short-Term Changes Implementation Clarifying Guidance (7/15/10)
Clarification of the new, short-term exemptions in CalWORKs for young children and no funding for supportive services. Gotta read. [Download]