California Welfare and Institutions Code ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants

• Section 11450.
  (a) (1) (A) Aid shall be paid for each needy family, which shall include all eligible brothers and sisters of each eligible applicant or recipient child and the...
• Section 11450.01.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing October 1, 1992, the maximum aid payments specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450 in...
• Section 11450.015.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payments in effect on June 30, 1993, in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of...
• Section 11450.017.
  Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payment in effect on June 30, 1994, in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of...
• Section 11450.018.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the maximum aid payment in accordance with paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450 as reduced by subdivisions...
• Section 11450.019.
  Effective the first day of the month following 90 days after a change in federal law that allows states to reduce aid payments without any...
• Section 11450.02.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, commencing July 1, 2009, the maximum aid payments in effect September 1, 2007, as specified in paragraph (1) of...
• Section 11450.025.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding any other law, effective on March 1, 2014, the maximum aid payments in effect on July 1, 2012, as specified in subdivision (b) of...
• Section 11450.03.
  (a) Notwithstanding the maximum aid payments specified in paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 11450, families that have resided in this state for less than...
• Section 11450.05.
  (a) For purposes of determining the maximum aid payment specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11450, the number of needy persons in the same family shall...
• Section 11450.3.
  (a) The director may establish, within the department, the Emergency Housing Apartment Program Demonstration Project.(b) The director may, by formal order, waive the operation of specific provisions...
• Section 11450.4.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to establish an emergency assistance for needy families program to serve the shelter needs of homeless families apparently...
• Section 11450.5.
  For purposes of computing and paying aid grants under this chapter, the director shall adopt regulations establishing a budgeting system consistent with Sections 11265.1, 11265.2,...
• Section 11450.8.
  No payment of aid pursuant to Section 11450 shall be made to a family for a month in which the amount the family would receive...
• Section 11450.9.
  (a) (1) The department shall designate as energy assistance payments any increase in the maximum aid payments provided pursuant to Section 11450 made on or after the...
• Section 11450.10.
  Whenever the department is informed pursuant to either Section 857 or 1764.5 that a minor is being incarcerated for a period of at least 30...
• Section 11450.11.
  Whenever a county welfare department is informed that a child who is incarcerated is also a member of a family receiving benefits pursuant to Section...
• Section 11450.12.
  (a) An applicant family shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter unless the family’s income, exclusive of the first ninety dollars ($90) of earned...
• Section 11450.13.
  (a) In calculating the amount of aid to which an assistance unit is entitled in accordance with Section 11320.15, the maximum aid payment, adjusted to reflect...
• Section 11450.16.
  (a) For purposes of determining eligibility under this chapter, and for computing the amount of aid payment under Section 11450, families shall be grouped into assistance...
• Section 11450.17.
  (a) (1) For purposes of determining the maximum aid payment specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11450 and for no other purpose, the number of needy persons...
• Section 11451.
  Any county may, in its discretion, pay from its own funds additional sums for the care of any needy child, and the state and county...
• Section 11451.5.
  (a) The following income shall be exempt from the calculation of the income of the family for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 11450:(1) If disability-based unearned...
• Section 11452.
  (a) (1) Minimum basic standards of adequate care shall be distributed to the counties and shall be binding upon them. The standards are determined on the basis...
• Section 11452.018.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the minimum basic standards of adequate care, as set forth in Section 11452, and as adjusted pursuant to any...
• Section 11453.
  (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the amounts set forth in Section 11452 and subdivision (a) of Section 11450 shall be adjusted annually by the...
• Section 11453.1.
  (a) It is the intent of this section to assure that the food purchasing power provided by benefits available from CalFresh under the federal Supplemental Nutrition...
• Section 11453.2.
  A county shall issue vouchers or vendor payments for at least rent and utilities payments, for any assistance unit in which any parent or caretaker...
• Section 11454.
  (a) A parent or caretaker relative shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter when he or she has received aid under this chapter or...
• Section 11454.2.
  For purposes of making the transition to the requirements of the act that added this section, county welfare departments shall provide any assistance unit that...
• Section 11454.5.
  (a) Any month in which the following conditions exist shall not be counted as a month of receipt of aid for the purposes of subdivision (a)...
• Section 11454.6.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 15200, to the extent that the exemptions from the time limits on aid specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of subdivision...
• Section 11455.
  If on the first day of the month a child is eligible for aid, aid for the entire month shall be paid.(Added by Stats. 1965,...
• Section 11457.
  (a) Money from noncustodial parents for child or spousal support with respect to whom an assignment under Section 11477 has been made shall be paid directly...
• Section 11458.
  The county may cancel, suspend or revoke aid under this chapter for cause. Upon instructions from the department, the county shall cancel, suspend or revoke...
• Section 11460.
  (a) (1) Foster care providers shall be paid a per child per month rate in return for the care and supervision of the AFDC-FC child placed with...
• Section 11461.
  (a) For children or, on and after January 1, 2012, nonminor dependents placed in a licensed or approved family home with a capacity of six or...
• Section 11461.1.
  It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure quality care for children who are placed in foster family homes. Therefore, the State Department of...
• Section 11461.2.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure quality care for children who are placed in the continuum of AFDC-FC eligible placement settings.(b) The State...
• Section 11461.3.
  (a) The Approved Relative Caregiver Funding Program is hereby established for the purpose of making the amount paid to approved relative caregivers for the in-home care...
• Section 11461.4.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, a tribe that has entered into an agreement pursuant to Section 10553.1 may elect to participate in the Tribal Approved Relative...
• Section 11461.5.
  (a) The department may establish a rate to supplement the basic rate specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11461 for the provision of additional shelter needs...
• Section 11461.6.
  (a) The Emergency Child Care Bridge Program for Foster Children is hereby established, to be implemented at the discretion of each county, for the purpose of...
• Section 11462.
  (a) The department shall commence development of a new payment structure for short-term residential therapeutic program placements claiming Title IV-E funding, in consultation with county placing...
• Section 11462.001.
  (a) (1) Foster care providers licensed as group homes, as defined in departmental regulations, including public child care institutions, as defined in Section 11402.5, shall have rates...
• Section 11462.01.
  (a) (1) If a program will admit Medi-Cal beneficiaries, no later than 12 months following the date of initial licensure, a short-term residential therapeutic program, as defined...
• Section 11462.011.
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services shall, in consultation with the Department of Managed Health Care, the State Department of Social Services, the County...
• Section 11462.015.
  (a) A group home program shall be classified at RCL 13 or RCL 14 if the program meets all of the following requirements:(1) The group home program...
• Section 11462.02.
  (a) Any existing county-operated foster family agency or group home, including the group home operated by the County of San Mateo, shall, commencing January 1, 2017,...
• Section 11462.021.
  (a) Notwithstanding paragraph (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 11462, a foster care provider licensed as a group home also may have a rate established if...
• Section 11462.022.
  (a) Upon meeting the licensure requirements pursuant to Section 1530.8 of the Health and Safety Code, a county child welfare agency operating a temporary shelter care...
• Section 11462.03.
  (a)Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 11462, the data obtained by the department pursuant to that subdivision using 1985 calendar year costs shall be updated and...
• Section 11462.04.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1, 2017, no new group home rate or change to an existing rate shall be established pursuant to the...
• Section 11462.041.
  (a) The Legislature recognizes that group homes are one of the primary placement options utilized by probation departments to avoid inappropriate housing of youth in a...
• Section 11462.045.
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a working group to develop recommended revisions to the current system of setting reimbursement rates for group...
• Section 11462.06.
  (a) For purposes of the administration of this article, including the setting of AFDC-FC provider rates, the department shall deem the reasonable costs of leases for...
• Section 11462.2.
  (a) Notwithstanding Section 11462, when the director determines that a rate established pursuant to that section for a multistate group home facility which operates in more...
• Section 11462.4.
  Notwithstanding Section 11342.610 of the Government Code, providers, as defined in Section 11466, shall be deemed small businesses and the department shall project the impact...
• Section 11463.
  (a) The department shall commence development of a new payment structure for the Title IV-E funded foster family agency placement option that maximizes federal funding, in...
• Section 11463.5.
  In order to receive funding on behalf of children receiving AFDC-FC, each provider, as defined in Section 11466, shall provide a full disclosure of all...
• Section 11464.
  (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:(1) Children who are consumers of regional center services and also receiving Aid to Families with Dependent Children-Foster...
• Section 11465.
  (a) When a child is living with a parent who receives AFDC-FC or Kin-GAP benefits, or, on or after July 1, 2017, Approved Relative Caregiver Funding...
• Section 11465.5.
  (a) The department shall conduct five-year pilot projects in Alameda County, Contra Costa County, Sacramento County, Solano County, Tulare County, and Yuba County, at the option...
• Section 11465.6.
  (a) Up to five counties selected by the department, and at the discretion of the counties, may implement a countywide program for licensed family homes and...
• Section 11466.
  For purposes of this section to Section 11469.3, inclusive, the following definitions apply:(a) “Provider” shall mean a group home, short-term residential therapeutic program, a foster family...
• Section 11466.01.
  (a) Commencing January 1, 2017, a provisional rate shall be set for all of the following:(1) A provider that is granted an extension pursuant to paragraph (1)...
• Section 11466.1.
  (a) (1) The department shall adopt regulations that specify the type of information requested from providers, including reasonable timeframes. All providers shall upon request of the department...
• Section 11466.2.
  (a) (1) The department shall perform or have performed provider program and fiscal audits as needed. Provider programs shall maintain all child-specific, programmatic, personnel, fiscal, and other...
• Section 11466.21.
  (a) In accordance with subdivision (b), as a condition to receive an AFDC-FC rate for a foster care program operated by a provider, as defined in...
• Section 11466.22.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure overall program integrity in the AFDC-FC program through the establishment of an effective and efficient process...
• Section 11466.23.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature to comply with the federal requirements of the Improper Payments Act of 2002 with respect to the remittance...
• Section 11466.235.
  (a) The department, in consultation and coordination with the County Welfare Directors Association (CWDA), shall update existing regulations and establish new regulations where lacking for the...
• Section 11466.24.
  (a) In accordance with this section, a county shall collect an overpayment, discovered on or after January 1, 1999, made to a foster family home, an...
• Section 11466.25.
  Interest begins to accrue on a provider overpayment or penalty on the date of the issuance of the penalty, the date of issuance of the...
• Section 11466.3.
  (a) The department shall offer a voluntary repayment agreement procedure to providers that owe a sustained overpayment. A provider may enter into a voluntary repayment agreement...
• Section 11466.31.
  (a) When it has been determined that a provider participating in the AFDC-FC program owes an overpayment that is due and payable, the department may implement...
• Section 11466.32.
  (a) If a provider that owes a sustained overpayment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.22 does not enter into a voluntary repayment...
• Section 11466.33.
  (a) If any amount is due and payable to the department as a result of a sustained overpayment to a provider for care and services in...
• Section 11466.34.
  (a) (1) At any time within 10 years of the recording of a lien pursuant to Section 11466.33, the department may bring an action, in a superior...
• Section 11466.35.
  (a) Any licensee or member of a governing board of a nonprofit who has been determined to owe a sustained overpayment under this chapter, and who,...
• Section 11466.36.
  (a) The department may terminate a program rate if any of the following conditions are met:(1) The department determines that, based upon the findings of a hearing...
• Section 11466.5.
  The department shall collect cost data and monitor the cost of providing care and supervision, and social work services, to AFDC-FC recipients. These data shall...
• Section 11466.6.
  A provider who disagrees with the rate determined by the department, the rate adjusted by an audit, or a determination made in a management decision...
• Section 11467.
  (a) The State Department of Social Services, with the advice and assistance of the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California,...
• Section 11467.1.
  (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that standards be developed to address the specific needs of very young children, from birth to six years...
• Section 11467.2.
  (a) The department shall contract with an independent evaluator to conduct a study of alternative funding mechanisms for group home care in California and to formulate...
• Section 11468.
  The department shall establish and maintain administrative procedures to review the rate set by the department for AFDC-FC programs, including, but not limited to, group...
• Section 11468.1.
  The administrative review procedure for rates established pursuant to Section 11468 shall include a protest within the department and a hearing conducted by a hearing...
• Section 11468.2.
  (a) A provider who disagrees with a rate determination and who desires a different rate, or who has been denied a rate or had a rate...
• Section 11468.3.
  (a) The appeal filed with the department pursuant to Section 11468.2 shall specify whether the provider does or does not wish that an informal conference among...
• Section 11468.4.
  (a) The hearing regarding a rate held pursuant to Section 11468.1 shall be conducted no later than 180 days after the filing of a timely and...
• Section 11468.5.
  The provider may request review of the final decision of the department made pursuant to Section 11468.4 in accordance with Section 1094.5 of the Code...
• Section 11468.6.
  (a) The director shall establish administrative procedures to review group home nonprovisional program rate audit findings.(b) A group home provider, including an RCL 13 or an RCL...
• Section 11469.
  (a) The department shall develop, following consultation with group home providers, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the County...
• Section 11469.1.
  The performance standards and outcome measures required by Section 11469 shall meet all of the following requirements:(a) They shall include indicators of quality of care, including,...
• Section 11469.2.
  (a) The department shall develop, following consultation with foster family agency providers, the County Welfare Directors Association of California, the Chief Probation Officers of California, the...
• Section 11469.3.
  The performance standards and outcome measures required by Section 11469.2 shall meet all of the following requirements:(a) They shall include indicators of quality of care, including,...

Last modified: October 22, 2018