calfresh | food stamps
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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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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-24-07: Identifying Combat Zones Due To Deployment Of Military Personnel To A Combat Zone (5/11/07)
Good news/bad news. There are more FNS identified combat zones, but here is the list of them, so that the income of people posted to a zone is excluded for the Food Stamps program. [Download]
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ACIN I-18-07 Food Stamp Q & As (4/10/07)
Answers to questions such as whether you can budget the foster care income of a child on FS with the Foster Parent (as a boarder), to the parents if the child is returned home mid-quarter (no); eligibility for…
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ACIN I-11-07: Supplemental Forms and Food Stamp/CalWORKs (3/27/07)
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but never a Pre-screening and Supplemental form shall meet. This ACIN discusses the difference between a Pre-Screening form (prohibited if asking eligibility questions prior to application ) and…
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ACL 07-12: Translation Of Food Stamp And CalWORKs Joint Forms Into Eight Additional Languages (3/2/07)
At long last! This ACL implements the settlement in Vu v. CDSS, to provide a total of 12 languages for translation of food stamp information and material. In addition to the 4 languages already translated by the state…
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ACIN I-99-06: State Minimum Wage Increase And Food Stamp Employment And Training (FSET) Participation Requirements (12/29/06)
A reminder to counties to adjust the required FSET participation in unpaid work activities to reflect the higher minimum wage, effective 1/1/07. (The grant divided by minimum wage results in the maximum assignable hours.) [Download]
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ACIN I-96-06: Q & A on Food Stamp Simplification Options (12/26/06)
Find the answers to those pressing Food Stamp questions. Topics include changes to the Utility allowances, and obligated child support payments. Good things such as applying the child support deduction first to unearned income (vs. earned). The ACIN…
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ACIN I-91-06: Food Stamp Q & A (12/5/06)
Info on calculating fair market value/exclusions of non-exempt property, drug felonies, loans, and more. And, in the perverse world of benefits, if you save your own retirement funds (IRAs, Keoghs) they are not exempt, but if done through…
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ACIN I-79-06 – Requirement to Include Notice of Missed Interview in the Food Stamp Denial Cases (October 31, 2006)
A bit of a roundabout way of passing on info that Regs@LSNC has not seen before. Turns out when the county wants to deny a Food Stamps application for failure of the household to attend the application interview,…