COVID-19
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Administrative review and state hearing requests for Franchise Tax Board intercepts for CalWORKs overpayments
California Department of Social Services (CDSS) can use the Franchise Tax Board (FTB) Interagency Intercept Collection Program to intercept state income tax refunds, lottery winnings and unclaimed property disbursements for CalWORKs overpayments. FTB intercepts were suspended effective March,…
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End of Homeless Assistance eligibility because of COVID-19
The California Department of Social Service (CDSS) has informed counties of the end of CalWORKs Homeless Assistance (HA) eligibility because of COVID-19. In general, families can only receive HA once per year. However, there is an exception to…
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End of CAPI COVID-19 procedures
During COVID-19 counties could perform eligibility interviews electronically, and accept verbal attestation that the client applied for SSI. Now that the COVID-19 State of Emergency is over, those procedures are no longer in effect. Effective immediately, neither a…
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End of COVID expansion of CalFresh student exemptions
During COVID-19, there were two additional exemptions to the CalFresh rule that students are ineligible for CalWORKs: students who were eligible for federal or state work study and students who had an Expected Family Contribution of zero dollars. …
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End of child care flexibility for COVID-19
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding the end of child care flexibilities for COVID-19 effective June 30, 2023. Effective July 1, 2023, provider will no longer be able to bill for non-operational days…
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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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Extension of COVID-19 CalFresh waivers
California has been granted waivers of the initial application and recertification interview (if certain criteria are met); and of the recording requirement for telephonic signatures (if certain criteria are met) because of COVID-19. These waivers have been extended…
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COVID-19 CalFresh emergency allotment for December, 2022
California has been approved to issue an emergency allotment of CalFresh for December, 2022. All households will receive at least the maximum CalFresh allotment. Households eligible to receive the maximum allowable allotment based on household size are now…
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Treatment of CAPP payments for various programs
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance to County Welfare Departments (CWDs) regarding treatment of California Arrearages Payment Program (CAPP) payments issued to California assistance program applicants and recipients to help pay eligible past due…
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COVID-19 CalFresh emergency allotment for October, 2022
California has been approved to issue an emergency allotment of CalFresh for October, 2022. All households will receive at least the maximum CalFresh allotment. Households eligible to receive the maximum allowable allotment based on household size are now…