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ACIN I-42-07: Food Stamp Q & As (8/9/07)
More of those pressing Food Stamps questions answered. Useful stuff like sponsored immigrant eligibility when the sponsor won’t cooperate (12 months through CalWORKs, before the immigrant is cut off, but FS can continue); Transitional Food Stamps (TFS) when…
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Errata to ACIN I-32-07E: Clarification To ACIN I-32-07: Reporting Methodology For TANF Work Participation Rates (8/6/07)
An errata to an errata, special for welfare nerds. And those of you in the position of convincing workers to leave recipients with disabilities and caring for disabled household members alone, as they are not part of the…
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ACIN I-41-07: SB 1569 (Human Trafficking/Benefits) , Post-Implementation Questions And Answers (8/8/07)
A much needed follow up on ACL 06-60, with policy clarifications about the implementation of the provision of public assistance to victims of trafficking. Recognizing the sensitivity of the issue, there is an attached suggested screening tool, and…
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ACIN I-38-07: Tribal TANF And Child Care Interface
Info on funding, and coverage of child care services to folks in Tribal TANF. [Download]
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ACL 07-25 (6/25/07) CalWORKs 60-Month Time Limit Exemption For Recipients Living In Indian Country
CalWORKs exempts recipients living on Tribal Reservations and Rancherias where unemployment is higher than 50%. This is the list of the areas that triggered the exemption in 2006. Impacted counties are: Amador, Amador, Butte, Del Norte, Eureka, Humboldt,…
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ACL 07-23: CalWORKs: COLA Increase To The Minimum Basic Standard Of Adequate Care (MBSAC) Levels (6/13/07)
That time of year again – the proposed state budget may not include a COLA to the grant, but at least there are COLA’s to the MBSAC. They are effective 7/1/07, and also affect the Refugee Cash Assistance…
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ACIN I-25-07: Disaster Unemployment Assistance Due To 1/07 Freeze In Food Stamp/CalWORKs (5/31/07)
EDD has extended the filing deadline for emergency UI to May 25th (after the date of this letter…). The Disaster Unemployment Assistance (DUA) covers those who normally would not get UI (self-employed or exhausted benefits). The disaster counties…
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ACIN I-27-07: Employment Development Department Wage Data Requests (5/1/07)
A reminder to counties that they are NOT just to send applicants/recipients willy-nilly to EDD to apply for Unemployment Benefits. Since the EDD files are available on-line to county workers, they are required to check for potential eligibility…
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ACIN I-29-07: CalWORKs Maximum Family Grant (MFG) Requirement Reminder (5/5/07)
A much needed once-over of the MFG rules. The letter notes that counties must provide the CW 2102 MFG informing notice form at application and each subsequent annual redetermination. Failure to issue/get the form signed at an annual…
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ACIN I-26-07: Internal Revenue Service Safeguard Requirements (5/16/07)
Busted. The IRS did an audit in California on the “Federal Tax Information” (FTI) program to match recipients with earnings, and found CA deficient. In addition to sending a Corrective Action Plan to the feds, this letter reminds…