refugees
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ACL 11-13E: CalWORKs Program And CalFresh: Changes In The Treatment Of Federal Tax Credits And Refunds In The CalWORKs And CalFresh Programs (2/10/11)
Well, the original ACL was right…as far as it went. This errata clarifies that the information about tax credits and refunds applies also to the Refugee Cash Assistance, the Entrant Cash Assistance, and the Trafficking and Crime Victims…
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ACL 10-28: Iraqi And Afghan Special Immigrants Eligibility For Refugee Resettlement Program Benefits And Services (6/2/10)
Notice of the extension of eligibility for refugee services (Refugee Social Services, Targeted Assistance, and Office of Refugee Resettlement discretionary grant services) from the original 8 months to 60 months fro date of entry. Encourages counties to do…
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ACL 10-18: FNS Census 2010 Demonstration Project-Exclusion Of Earned Income Of Temporary Census Employees (4/19/10)
Information and instructions regarding a Food Stamps demonstration project to exclude earned income from temporary employment in the 2010 Census. The Project is effective January 1, 2010. Counties are to begin excluding income earned by census takers retroactive…
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ACIN I-26-10: Cuban/Haitian Entrant Program And Temporary Protected Status For Haitian Nationals (4/8/10)
Bad news for earthquake displaced Haitians: The feds clarified that Office of Refugee Resettlement can be provided only to Haitians who are: parole status as a Haitian Entrants, paroled into the U.S. and has not acquired any other…
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ACIN I-27-10: County Reimbursements For Services To Repatriated Citizens (4/8/10)
Changes to the reimbursement process for the Individual Repatriation Program. CDSS no longer gets them, they go directly to the feds. [Download]
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ACIN I-02-10: Exclusion From Income and Resources/Payments To Certain Filipino World War II Veterans (1/26/10)
The ARRA created a Filipino Veterans Equity Compensation Fund, which provides for certain veterans and the spouses of those veterans to receive a one-time payment of up to $15,000. The law specifies that these benefits are not to…
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ACIN I-92-09: Services And Reimbursement For Repatriated Citizens (12/21/09)
For the counties: timelines for submitting reimbursement claims for the U.S. Repatriation Program. and a request that county repatriation programs provide updated contact information. [Download]
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ACL 09-05: CalWORKs Information Regarding California Registered Domestic partners (RDPs) And Same-Sex Spouses (2/27/09)
Policy direction regarding eligibility of same-sex married spouses to the CalWORKs, Food Stamp, and Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) programs, and instructions regarding eligibility for Medi-Cal. (DHCS has issued ACWDL 09-03 and ACWDL 09-04 regarding this.) The California RDP…
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ACIN I-46-09: Time-Eligibility For Refugee Cash Assistance And Entrant Cash Assistance Recipients (6/9/09)
Just letting the counties know that the state has improved automation to help cut folks off aid (to avoid overpayments). Programming changes made to the Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System (MEDS) will provide an alert 90 days before the…
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ACL 09-26: CalWORKs And Food Stamp: Treatment Of 2010 United States Census Workers’ Income (6/4/09)
It is expected that approximately 17,000 full-time and part-time workers will be hired as census takers in California beginning on April 1, 2009. Most workers will be working from four to ten weeks. While the income is not…