The ARRA created a Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund, which provides for certain veterans and the spouses of those veterans to receive a one-time payment of up to $15,000. The law specifies that these benefits are not to be used to determine eligibility for or amount of benefits in any federal program. The provisions were effective April 1, 2009. CWDs must determine if any retroactive payments were received since that time, but are only required to review cases for retroactive payments at recertification, or when it is discovered that a Filipino veteran received a payment from the Fund. CWDs must then determine if the payment not excluded, and take corrective action to restore benefits. [Download]
Summaries of select CalWORKs, CalFresh, Health and Housing Regulations
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ACWDL 09-58: Statutory changes in the CDSS program for payment of medical recognized expenses, including its elimination effective October 1, 2009 (11/24/09)
The share of cost buy-out program is being eliminated due to statutory changes to the CDSS program. Payment of Medi-Cal
Recognized Expenses (MRE) for Personal Care Services Program and In-Home Supportive Services, Plus Waiver program recipients are eliminated as of October 1, 2009. This letter has attached DSS ACL 09-47 which contains more details. [Download]
ACWDL 09-57: 2009 ARRA making work pay credit (11/24/09)
Any credit or refund allowed or made pursuant to the making work pay credit (Title I, § 1001 of the ARRA), shall be exempt income for the month of receipt and shall be exempt property for the following two months for the purposes of determining Medi-Cal eligibility or SOC. [Download]
ACWDL 09-56: Increase in SGA from $980 per month to $1000 per month effective January 1, 2010, for non-blind individuals (11/24/09)
The federal SGA amount will increase to $1000 effective January 1, 2010. Counties will retroactively redetermine Medi-Cal eligibility based on disability if a case has been denied erroneously due to a delay in implementing the new SGA amount. SGA rules do not apply to blind individuals, Medi-Cal beneficiaries who return to work after disability has been approved, or to applicants of the Medi-Cal 250% Working Disabled Program. [Download]
ACWDL 09-55: Treatment of payments to Filipino veterans made from the Filipino veterans equity compensation fund (11/24/09)
Any payment to Filipino veterans made from the Filipino veterans equity compensation fund, shall be considered exempt as income in the month received and may not be used to compute Medi-Cal SOC. These payments are also exempt as property to the extent that the funds are retained and kept identifiable. Any negative decision made based on these payments should be rescinded and redetermined. [Download]
ACWDL 09-54: Payments from victims of violent crimes program (11/16/09)
Victims Compensation payments made by any state are to be considered exempt income in the month of receipt and exempt property for nine months following the month of receipt. Applicants or beneficiaries who report the receipt of a Victims’ Compensation Program shall be required to provide verification sufficient to document the source of the payment. If anyone was adversely affected by receiving a victims compensation payment from another state, counties must rescind the incorrect decision and retroactively redetermine the eligibility or SOC. [Download]