CalFresh and CalWORKs: childhood hunger and foster youth.
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- Passed Senate
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Overview
Assembly Bill 2765 addresses childhood hunger and foster youth by modifying California’s CalFresh and CalWORKs programs in response to federal changes. Specifically, it aims to protect foster youth and former foster youth from experiencing hunger due to limitations in SNAP benefits. The bill seeks to ensure these vulnerable populations are exempt from time limits on SNAP assistance and provides for additional support through special needs allowances, including potentially providing benefits in the form of food. It also increases the amount of a recurring special needs allowance for foster youth and those recently discontinued from CalFresh.
Key provisions
- Specifies that an ABAWD participant includes a parent or other member of a household with responsibility for a dependent child 14 years of age or older as a result of federal law.
- Requires the Department of Social Services to seek a federal waiver to protect foster youth and former foster youth from SNAP time limit cuts.
- Increases the maximum threshold for the CalWORKs special needs allowance from $15 to $17.
- Authorizes the special needs allowance to be provided in the form of a food benefit of equivalent value.
- Establishes a recurring special needs allowance for adults in households receiving CalFresh or CalWORKs who have a child 14 or older and are discontinued due to the SNAP time limit.
- Requires the department to issue an all-county letter to implement the waiver and provide instructions to counties.
- Mandates the implementation of blanket exemptions to CalFresh work requirements for certain populations, including foster youth and those with open child welfare or probation cases.
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