California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 1 - Policies and Purposes

• Section 11000.
  The provisions of law relating to a public assistance program shall be fairly and equitably construed to effect the stated objects and purposes of the...
• Section 11001.
  No person receiving aid under a public assistance program shall be considered a pauper or an indigent by reason thereof, and no warrant drawn in...
• Section 11002.
  All aid given under a public assistance program shall be absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, or otherwise.(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 497, Sec. 182....
• Section 11003.
  If the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issues a formal ruling that any section of this code relating to public assistance cannot...
• Section 11004.
  The provisions of this code relative to public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to the counties shall be administered fairly to the...
• Section 11004.1.
  (a) In addition to Section 11004, this section shall apply to the CalWORKs program.(b) The amount of any CalWORKs grant overpayment shall be the difference between the...
• Section 11004.5.
  Notwithstanding any other law, foster care payments made pursuant to Section 11460 shall not be considered income of the foster parent or child for purposes...
• Section 11005.
  Any special need allowance for mileage and for the expenses of the operation and maintenance of an automobile shall be fixed to operate in a...
• Section 11005.5.
  All money paid to a recipient or recipient group as aid is intended to help the recipient meet his individual needs or, in the case...
• Section 11006.
  Except as basic needs are provided pursuant to a life care agreement governed by Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1770) of Division 2 of the...
• Section 11006.1.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each grant of aid under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 13000) shall be increased in the amount of two...
• Section 11006.2.
  (a) The department may provide for the delivery of public assistance payments at any time during the month.(b) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, any person entitled to the...
• Section 11006.4.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when payment of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of this part is made by mail, the...
• Section 11006.5.
  This section shall be applicable only to those aid recipients under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500) of...
• Section 11006.6.
  (a) The department may establish and operate a central benefit issuance system in one or more counties whereby grants in aid paid pursuant to this part...
• Section 11006.9.
  It is a cause for revocation of a permit or license by the department or the State Department of Health Services for any person, association,...
• Section 11007.
  Aid granted to a recipient of public assistance shall not constitute a lien upon any property of the recipient.The cost of hospitalization furnished by a...
• Section 11008.
  (a) In order that recipients of public assistance may become self-supporting and productive members of their communities, it is essential that they be permitted to earn...
• Section 11008.1.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, income, including but not limited to seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.50) of any income, received by a...
• Section 11008.2.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, lump sum retroactive social security payments received under the provisions of Public Law 92-5 shall not be considered...
• Section 11008.3.
  The 1974 income tax refunds and the lump sum fifty dollars ($50) payment received under the provisions of Public Law 94-12 shall not be considered...
• Section 11008.4.
  Property taxes (1) as defined in Section 20584 of the Revenue and Taxation Code, which are postponed by a person pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing...
• Section 11008.6.
  In addition to the requirements contained in Section 11008, when determining the income of a recipient, to the extent permitted by federal law, relocation assistance...
• Section 11008.7.
  Neither funds distributed pursuant to U.S. Public Law 90-507 (82 Stat. 860) nor property derived therefrom shall be considered in determining the eligibility of or...
• Section 11008.8.
  It is the intent of the Legislature that any reduction in the state and county costs of public assistance payments to recipients of aid under...
• Section 11008.9.
  Loans or grants provided for in Section 69650 of the Education Code are deemed to be for educational purposes and to the extent permitted by...
• Section 11008.10.a.
  To the extent permitted by federal law the value of any loan or grant to any undergraduate student made or insured under any program administered...
• Section 11008.11.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipends, meals, transportation, or other income received by a senior companion pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with...
• Section 11008.12.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipend, meals, transportation, or other income received by a foster grandparent pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with...
• Section 11008.13.
  To the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with other provisions of this chapter, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid under this...
• Section 11008.135.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid for an alien under this division, the income and resources of...
• Section 11008.14.
  (a) The income of the natural or adoptive parent, and the spouse of the natural or adoptive parent, and the sibling of an eligible child, living...
• Section 11008.14.a.
  (a) The income of the natural or adoptive parent, the spouse of the natural or adoptive parent, and the sibling of an eligible child unless the...
• Section 11008.15.
  Notwithstanding Sections 11008.14 and 11267, the department shall exercise the options of disregarding earned income of a dependent child or ward of the juvenile court...
• Section 11008.17.
  (a) To the extent required by federal law, amounts paid pursuant to any federal law enacted in 1988 to provide reparation payments to redress the injustice...
• Section 11008.18.
  The department shall implement the state option in Section 402(a)(36) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 602(a)(36)) and as that statute may...
• Section 11008.19.
  (a) (1) To the degree child care and development services administered by the State Department of Education pursuant to Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 8200) of Part...
• Section 11008.20.a.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any amount, including any interest or property, received by a holocaust victim, as defined in subparagraph (A) of paragraph...
• Section 11009.1.
  The value of free board and lodging supplied to a recipient during a temporary absence from his home of not more than one month, shall...
• Section 11010.
  Except as otherwise provided in Section 12152 in determining the amount of aid grants payable under a public assistance program, no consideration shall be given...
• Section 11010.5.
  General unrestricted or undesignated private charitable donations and contributions made to charitable or nonprofit organizations shall not be deducted from the cost of providing services...
• Section 11013.
  (a) The department may require issuance of an identification card to recipients of aid.The identification card shall contain the following information:(1) Name and address of the recipient.(2) Social...
• Section 11014.
  To the extent that any provision of this part prohibits the granting of aid to persons confined in a public institution for tuberculosis or mental...
• Section 11015.
  Unless there are other grounds therefor, aid grants shall not be withheld pending ascertainment of increases in federal benefits or increases in benefits payable by...
• Section 11016.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person for whom federal financial participation is available shall be denied benefits, for which federal financial participation is...
• Section 11017.
  In computing and paying assistance under this part, the need and income amounts used shall be rounded to the next lower whole dollar when the...
• Section 11017.1.
  Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 11017, the State Department of Social Services, at the next computation of annual cost-of-living adjustments for public assistance payments on...
• Section 11020.
  (a) Where a recipient under a categorical aid program other than CalWORKs has received aid in good faith but in fact owned excess property, he or...
• Section 11021.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no individual who is an applicant for, or recipient of, aid or assistance under a state plan approved under...
• Section 11022.
  The State Department of Health Services and the State Department of Social Services shall prepare information on the effect of funds received according to Sections...
• Section 11023.
  (a) If a county human services agency elects to use information contained in a consumer credit report for the determination of CalFresh or CalWORKs eligibility or...
• Section 11023.5.
  (a) Any applicant or recipient of benefits under the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, CalFresh, and Medi-Cal programs, who delivers a document which has been...

Last modified: October 22, 2018