Latest Updates
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Changes to the Bringing Families Home program
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding changes to the Bringing Families Home Program. Bringing Families Home provides financial assistance and housing support services to families receiving child welfare services, including tribal child welfare…
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Changes to the Home Safe program
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding changes to the Home Safe Program. Home Safe provides housing support services to older adults and dependent adults who are both at risk of homelessness, and who…
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Changes to the HDAP program
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued guidance regarding changes to the Housing and Disability Assistance Program (HDAP). HDAP provides housing support and disability benefits advocacy for people experiencing homelessness or who are at risk of…
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Social Security benefits statements available online
Clients can now download their Social Security Benefits Statements for the past six years from their My Social Security account. A Benefit Statement shows the total amount of benefits a person received from Social Security in a calendar…
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Social Security and SSI overpayments
Overpayments of Social Security and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) benefits happen when recipients get more benefits than they are entitled to. When there is an overpayment allegation, recipients have four options: Repay the overpayment Request an appeal Request…
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Child Care Family Fees changes
The California Department of Social Service (CDSS) has issued a Child Care Bulletin (CCB) to guide counties and contractors regarding the implementation of Assembly Bill (AB) 116. The bill authorized the restructuring of Family Fee Schedules and allows…
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Local Social Security Office Mobile Check-In
Social Security offices have enabled a Mobile Check-In feature. To use Mobile Check-in, clients scan the QR code at the Social Security office they are visiting to check in for both scheduled and unscheduled visits. The Mobile Check-in…
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Revised CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work exemption and time on aid forms
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued revised CW 2186A, CalWORKs Exemption Request, and CW 2184, CalWORKs 60-Month Time limit forms. Effective January 1, 2022, all pregnant CalWORKs recipients are exempt from Welfare-to-Work. Effective October 1,…
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ITIN and SSN requirements for IHSS applicants and recipients
The California Department of Social Services (CDSS) has issued instructions about In Home Supportive Services (IHSS) recipients as employers of their providers. The IHSS recipient is an employer of record of the provider. CDSS performs payroll and other…
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CalWORKs Domestic Abuse policies
The California Department of Social Services has updated its guidance and provided policy reminders regarding the support of domestic abuse survivors through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Before the implementation of AB 2277,…