CalFresh / SNAP
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Disaster CalFresh for San Bernardino County May 2023
The California Department of Social Services has issued guidance and information regarding implementation of Disaster CalFresh for San Bernardino County in May, 2023. Disaster CalFresh has been approved for the following ZIP codes in San Bernardino County: 91759…
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Eligibility of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parolees for federal and state benefits
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding eligibility of Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan parolees for federal and state benefits. Cuban, Haitian, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan refugees and asylees are eligible for CalWORKs, CalFresh, SSI,…
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Requirements for truncating Social Security Numbers
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding AB 499 (2020) that requires mailings from state agencies, which includes counties operating state and federal programs on behalf of CDSS, to only include the last four…
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Disaster CalFresh April 2023
The California Department of Social Services has issued guidance and information regarding implementation of Disaster CalFresh for April, 2023 for the California winter storms and power outages. Disaster CalFresh has been approved for Kern, Mariposa, Monterey, San Benito,…
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County requests for approval of exemption of Guaranteed Income project income for CalWorks and CalFresh
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued a notice to describe how counties with Guaranteed Income (GI) projects can request that their programs be approved as CalWORKs GI Projects and therefore not be counted as income…
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AB 2300 changes to sanctions, exemptions and good cause and counting of Paid Family Leave
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) informs counties of changes in sanctions, exemptions, good cause, and counting of Paid Family Leave. For CalWORKs, the first $225, and then one-half of remaining disability-based income is disregarded. Effective October…
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Potential Intentional Program Violation policy
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued a policy about potential Intentiional Program Violations (IPVs). Counties can only establish nonfraudulent CalWORKs overpayments and CalFresh overissuances for two years prior to the date of discovery. Any benefits…
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CalFresh waivers for the end of the Public Health Emergency
California has been approved for three federal waivers to assist with the end of the federal COVID-19 Public Health Emergency. California has a waiver for address changes that will be effective from April 1, 2023 to March 31,…
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Treasury Offset Program and Franchise Tax Board Intercept for CalFresh overissuances
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance on suspending collection of CalFresh overissuances by Treasury Offset Program (TOP) and Franchise Tax Board Intercept. TOP is the federal program to collect overissuances from federal tax refunds…
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February 2023 emergency CalFresh allotment and end of emergency allotments
California has been approved to issue an emergency allotment of CalFresh for February. 2023. All households will receive at least the maximum CalFresh allotment. Households eligible to receive the maximum allowable allotment based on household size are now…