refugees
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ACL 09-20: CalWORKs: Grant Reduction; Suspension Of COLA To The Maximum Aid Payment (MAP) Levels; COLA Increase To The Minimum Basic Standard Of Adequate Care (MBSAC) Levels (4/8/09)
The state budget cut CalWORKs grants (both regions, exempt and non-exempt households). This ACL lists the new grant amounts, and reminds counties that this cut may result in higher Food stamps. The Maximum Aid Payment (MAP) COLA is…
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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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ACL 08-61: CalWORKs IRT For Quarterly Reporting (12/3/08)
The letter provides the 2008-2009 Income Reporting Threshold (IRT) chart ….effective 10/1/08. It also reviews the IRT rules and informing notice requirements. The IRT rules also apply to the Refugee Cash Assistance and Trafficking and Crime Victims Assistance…
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ACL 08-35: Eligibility For Iraqis/Afghans With Special Immigrant Visas And Information On Newly Arriving Iraqi Refugees (8/1/08)
Information on benefits for Iraqi and Afghans who worked as translators or interpreters and given Special Immigrant Visas (SIVs), or admitted as refugees. A 2007 law allows Iraqis/Afghans with SIVs to get federally-funded refugee benefits and services, for…
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ACIN I-78-06: County Refugee Program Guidelines (10/19/06)
The State Refugee Program Bureau (RPB) has issued new Program Guidelines for the different Refugee work programs. Parts of the letter and Guidelines apply to all counties, and part to the 12 “impacted” counties. Information about refugee services…
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ACL 05-18 – COLA for the MAP and MBSAC for CalWORKs and Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) Programs (July 22, 2005)
Silver lining to the budget bad news. Although it suspended the COLA for two years, since the was not approved as of July 1, 2005, the COLA went through for July. CalWORKs and RCA folks will get a…
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ACL 05-08 – Expansion of Eligibility for Relatives of Victims of Trafficking (April 1, 2005)
The categories eligible under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act have been expanded. They now include the spouse, children, victim’s parents, and single minor siblings if the victim was under 21 at the time the T Visa application is…
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ACIN I-88-04 – Treatment of Reception and Placement Cash Provided to Refugees in the Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) and CalWORKs Programs (December 29, 2004)
No change in policy, just a friendly reminder to counties that funds paid to refugees for “reception” (no, not the party kind) and placement is not counted as income to the Refugee Cash Assistance and CalWORKs programs. These…
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ACIN I-07-04 – CAPI for Refugees Discontinued from SSI (January 28, 2004)
Remember that odd provision of Welfare Reform that limited Refugee (and asylee, and Cuban/Haitians, etc.) eligibility to federal benefits to seven years, on the theory that people would just naturally flow into citizenship (at $300 bucks a pop!)?…