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ACL 04-56 – Voluntary Reports of Income Exceeding 130% Percent of the Federal Poverty Level for Quarterly Reporting Non-assistance Food Stamp Households (December 23, 2004)
Now don’t shoot the messenger, but the feds have told the state that, oops, “it was not their intent to allow benefits to continue mid-quarter when a NAFS household, not previously receiving CalWORKs, voluntarily reports income above the…
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Errata to ACL 04-41 – SB 1104 CalWORKs New WTW Requirements (December 9, 2004)
Clarifies the implementation timelines and universal engagement requirements (when the 90 days to have a complaint-with-the-new rules WTW plan signed). The third clarification is about converting non-core hours to core hours. NOTE: There is disagreement about the conversion…
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ACIN I-81-04 – January 2005 COLAs that Affect CAPI (December 6, 2004)
Although there will be no increase in the State-funded SSP amount in January, the federal SSI COLA kicks in on January 1, 2005. The increased CAPI Payment Standards, set out in the attached charts, become effective on January…
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CSS Letter 04-30: Set Aside of Paternity Judgment (12/15/04)
The Department of Child Support Services has issued CSS letter 04-30 which implements A.B. 252 regarding paternity disestablishment. The legislation and implementing instructions establish a two year time frame for a father to move for paternity disestablishment after…
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CSS Letter 04-27: Financial Institution Data Match and Bank Levy Program (12/1/04)
On December 1, 2004, DCSS issued CSS Letter 04-27, which implements the new requirement to do bank levies for child support arrears even when the the noncustodial parent is in compliance with the order for current support. The…
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PIH Notice 2005-1 – Implementation of the Consolidated Appropriations Act (HR 4818 – H Rept 108-792), 2005 Funding Provisions for the Housing Choice Voucher Program (December 8, 2004)
This notice implements the funding provisions resulting from Congress’ enactment of the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2005. The notice locks in the budget-based process for allocating Section 8 voucher funds to public housing authorities (PHAs) implemented in 2004 and…
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PIH Notice 2004-24 – Income Calculation and Verification Guidance Re Medical Prescription Drug Cards and Transitional Assistance (November 10, 2004)
This notice provides guidance to public housing authorities (PHAs), project owners and other interested parties regarding the determination of annual and adjusted income in HUD’s assisted housing programs under the Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement and Modernization Act of…
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ACL 04-46 – Glesmann v. Saenz Impact On Relative Caregiver Approval (November 19, 2004)
While this case is on appeal, counties are required review all pending applications for license exempture for those convicted of second degree robbery with a Certificate of Rehabilitation (okay, so maybe you don’t see a lot of these…
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ACL 04-54 – Regional Market Rate (RMR) Regulations (November 29, 2004)
Striving for regularity through regulations, not Metemusil. These final regulations bring uniformity to the Regional Market Rates for CalWORKs and other subsidized child care programs. (Portions of the emergency regulations were suspended with the budget trailer bill.) Of…
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DHS ACL 04-31 – Questions and Answers on SB 87 Medi-Cal Redetermination Process for Discontinued SSI/SSP Beneficiaries as Ordered in Craig v. Bonta (October 22, 2004)
Clarifies the policy directives in ACL 03-24. Clarifies that if the SSA discontinuance reason is “no longer disabled” the beneficiary can still allege a disability but it must be a disability different from the disability under which the…