calworks
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ACL 04-54 – Regional Market Rate (RMR) Regulations (November 29, 2004)
Striving for regularity through regulations, not Metemusil. These final regulations bring uniformity to the Regional Market Rates for CalWORKs and other subsidized child care programs. (Portions of the emergency regulations were suspended with the budget trailer bill.) Of…
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DHS ACL 04-29 – CalWORKs Family Reunification Program (October 7, 2004)
Informs counties of the CalWORKs Family Reunification (FR) Program. FR cases are CalWORKs cases in which the children have been removed from the home and placed in out-of-home care by the county child welfare services agency. Under CalWORKs…
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ACL 04-39 – CalWORKs Income Reporting Threshold (IRT) Chart (November 2, 2004)
Here’s the IRT chart for 2004. (This is the amount of income which triggers the mandatory CalWORKs mid-quarter income report). The ACL reminds counties they must send an informing notice that provides the IRT limits, individualized for each…
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ACL 04-48 – Final CalWORKs WTW Learning Disabilities Regulations (October 29, 2004)
This officially transmits the regs, which have been effective since September 15, 2004. What’s new are the Q & A’s attached. Answers like “you must offer the LD screen to exempt adults if they volunteer, to those who…
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DSS ACL 04-14 – Continuation of Medi-Cal Benefits in CalWORKs Intercounty Transfer Cases (April 14, 2004)
This is the companion letter to the DHS ACL [03-12] issued in February 2003. Provides instructions to counties to ensure Medi-Cal benefits continue for cases that are both discontinued from the CalWORKs Program and transferred to another county.…
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ACL 04-47 – CalWORKs Welfare-to-Work Two-Parent Sanction Procedures (October 27, 2004)
Clarification on the good cause determination, compliance, sanctioning, and curing processes in for two-parent AU-families. No difference in the time frames and other general policies set out in the Sanctions ACL 03-59. The main zing comes from the…
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ACL 04-34 – CalWORKs COLA and MAP and MBSAC Increases (August 31, 2004)
They’re all up, effective July 2004. [Download]
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ACL 04-33 – Fry Implementation (August 27, 2004)
Per court order, CDSS must modify the rule for determining CalWORKs cash aid and eligibility for otherwise eligible 18-year-olds (and their parent/caretaker relatives) who are attending school full-time and are not expected to graduate by age 19 from…
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ACL 04-30 – Regulations to Implement Quarterly Reporting (July 26, 2004)
Effective July 1 (okay, so they weren’t issued until three weeks later), the QR regs are officially in place, with links in the ACL to the actual regs. What’s new since the ACL? A QR 7 report of…
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ACIN I-48-04 – CalWORKs 60-month Time Limit Notices of Action (NOA) Messages and Forms (July 14, 2004)
For better or worse, here are “new and improved” forms explaining time limit exception and extension rules to recipients, and the accompanying notices and forms. Not quite clear or complete, but an improvement. [Download]