CalFresh / SNAP
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ACL 13-46: CalWORKs Program And CalFresh: Changes In The Treatment Of Federal Tax Credits And Refunds (6/10/13)
As a result of passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, there are two major changes for counties: 1) federal tax credits and refunds received on or after January 1, 2013, are permanently excluded as income…
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ACL 13-45: California CalFresh Alert Case Process (6/7/13)
This letter outlines the steps the state and the county will be taking when the state gets an “Alert” from FNS regarding people with “unusual” transactions at retailers closed down or penalized for fraud. Includes the California “Integrity…
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ACL 11-06E: Continuing Of All County Letter (ACL) 11-06 Sponsor Deeming, Indigent Noncitizen Determination And Sponsor Income Verification (5/23/13)
This errata is more like a new ACL, as it is a continuation of an ACL from 2011 (yes, 2 years ago), ACL 11-06. This letter reviews (1) the procedure for reviewing sponsor deeming when a child receiving benefits…
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ACIN I-24-13: CalFresh Administrative Error Overissuances (5/10/13)
When the Lomeli settlement went into effect, DSS issued a regulation, but did not remove the old provisions that were in a different section. Just to clarify, this letter explains that admin error overissuances are limited to a…
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ACL 13-35: Heat And Eat Program (4/24/13)
A tweak to the “Heat and Eat” program described in ACL 12-61, to remedy the fact that some homeless households with income were losing benefits. Since the intent of Heat and Eat is to increase benefits, CWDs are instructed to…
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ACL 13-32: Modified Categorical Eligibility/Broad-Based Categorical Eligibility And Elderly/Disabled CalFresh Households (4/24/13)
An important add-on to ACL 12-62, explaining that if a household with seniors/people classified as disabled are above 200% FPL (the financial cut off with the feds for Categorical Eligibility), the county must still process the application to determine…
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ACL 13- 28: CalWORKs And CalFresh Programs: Implementation Of The Annual Reporting/Child Only (AR/CO) System Q&A (4/10/13)
So, what do you do when as an “AR/CO reporter? Here are the answers! [Download]
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ACL 13-26: CalWORKs) And CalFresh Programs: New And Revised Forms And Notices Of Action (NOAs) For The Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) System (4/8/13)
New system, new forms. Included here are the 2nd set of SAR forms. The SAWS 2, CW 8 and 8A can all be used as soon as administratively possible. The rest (and all SAR forms) must be up…
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ACL 13-17: Updated Information For Semi-Annual Reporting Implementation For CalFRESH (3/22/13)
Gee, that 107 page Semi-Annual Reporting (SAR) ACL was so darn thorough! Unfortunately, it was also based on some waiver requests to the USDA. This letter goes over which were accepted, which were denied (and the impact) and…
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ACIN I-11-13: Release Of The New LIHEAP informing notice (3/6/13)
New informing and approval notices. MPP 63-504.39 requires that the counties inform all households of new CalFresh benefits and deductions. The state says that the county may use the new mass change notice or may notify households via…