California Welfare and Institutions Code CHAPTER 10 - CalFresh

• Section 18900.
  Finding that hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition are present and continuing problems faced by low-income California households, and further finding that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance...
• Section 18900.1.
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall propose a new name for the Food Stamp Program in California, by July 1, 2009. The department shall...
• Section 18900.2.
  (a) Pursuant to Section 18900.1, the name of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Chapter 51 (commencing with Section 2011) Title 7 of the United States...
• Section 18901.
  (a) The eligibility of households shall be determined to the extent permitted by federal law.(b) In determining eligibility for CalFresh, no minimum age requirements shall be imposed...
• Section 18901.1.
  (a) The department shall issue guidance to simplify the verification of dependent care expense deductions necessary to determine a household’s eligibility for, or the benefit level...
• Section 18901.2.
  (a) There is hereby created the State Utility Assistance Subsidy (SUAS), a state-funded energy assistance program that shall provide energy assistance benefits to eligible CalFresh households...
• Section 18901.25.
  (a) There is hereby created the Safe Drinking Water Supplemental Benefit Pilot Program, a state-funded program to provide additional CalFresh nutrition benefits for interim assistance to...
• Section 18901.3.
  (a) Subject to the limitations of subdivision (b), pursuant to Section 115(d)(1)(A) of Public Law 104-193 (21 U.S.C. Sec. 862a(d)(1)(A)), California opts out of the provisions...
• Section 18901.4.
  (a) Effective July 1, 2010, the department shall propose a Transitional Food Stamps for Foster Youth demonstration project under which independent foster care adolescents, as defined...
• Section 18901.5.
  (a) The department shall establish a program of categorical eligibility for CalFresh in accordance with Section 5(a) of the federal Food and Nutrition Act of 2008...
• Section 18901.55.
  (a) If a county has entered into a memorandum of understanding pursuant to Section 49557.3 of the Education Code, the county shall use the procedure described...
• Section 18901.6.
  To the maximum extent allowable by federal law, each county welfare department shall provide transitional CalFresh benefits to households terminating their participation in the CalWORKs...
• Section 18901.7.
  (a) To the extent allowable by federal law, the income, resources, and deductible expenses of any household member who is rendered ineligible for CalFresh benefits pursuant...
• Section 18901.8.
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, and with receipt of necessary federal approvals, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with affected stakeholder...
• Section 18901.9.
  (a) For the purpose of eligibility under this chapter, the rules governing the resource value of motor vehicles shall be aligned with an alternative program allowed...
• Section 18901.10.a.
  To the extent permitted by federal law, and subject to the limitation in subdivision (c), each county welfare department shall, if appropriate, exempt a household...
• Section 18901.11.
  (a) For purposes of Section 273.5(b)(11)(ii) of Title 7 of the Code of Federal Regulations, an educational program that could be a component of a CalFresh...
• Section 18902.
  Each county welfare department shall carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this chapter, subject to the supervision of the department and to rules and...
• Section 18902.5.
  (a) In the administration of this chapter counties may conduct an early fraud prevention and detection program pursuant to this section. (b) Funding for an early fraud...
• Section 18903.
  The department shall enter into and execute on behalf of the state all necessary agreements in connection with this chapter as may be required by...
• Section 18904.
  Regulations, orders or standards of general application to implement, interpret or make specific the law relating to this chapter shall be adopted, amended, or repealed...
• Section 18904.1.
  (a) The director, to the extent permitted by federal law, shall establish methods for CalFresh benefit issuance in all counties which guarantee to low-income households the...
• Section 18904.2.
  The department may administer outreach programs and adopt rules and regulations requiring counties to conduct outreach programs to the extent permitted by federal law and...
• Section 18904.25.
  (a) Pursuant to the federal Stewart B. McKinney Homeless Assistance Act (Public Law 100-77), the department shall develop CalFresh information on expedited services targeted to the...
• Section 18904.3.
  (a) If a private nonprofit organization, public postsecondary educational institution, or other state or local agency secures funds for CalFresh outreach activities that are allowable for...
• Section 18904.35.
  Upon approval of a final plan for CalFresh outreach activities, in accordance with Section 18904.4, the department shall, in determining whether to request federal matching...
• Section 18905.
  In the event that the United States Department of Agriculture makes a final determination to reduce federal funding of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program,...
• Section 18905.1.
  The department shall not impose any additional requirements for verification of eligibility for expedited service other than those minimum requirements that exist under federal law.(Amended...
• Section 18906.
  The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of CalFresh under this chapter will be effectively controlled within the amounts...
• Section 18906.5.
  (a) The state shall pay 70 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, administered in California as CalFresh, subject to...
• Section 18906.55.
  (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 18906.5 or any other law, as a result of the substantial fiscal pressures on counties created by the unprecedented and unanticipated CalFresh caseload...
• Section 18906.6.
  At the time the United States Department of Agriculture allows the state to retain a portion of the value of any claims collected, the state...
• Section 18906.7.
  The state shall pay 100 percent of the nonfederal costs of administering an early fraud prevention and detection program in the administration of this chapter,...
• Section 18906.8.
  Subject to Section 18906, the state may pay 100 percent of the nonfederal administrative costs, when cost-effective, as determined by the state, of followup activities...
• Section 18907.
  In the determination of eligibility for CalFresh, there shall be no discrimination against any household by reason of marital status, political belief, or any characteristic...
• Section 18908.
  Except as provided in Section 18904.1, federal supplemental security income benefits, state supplemental security program benefits, public assistance, and county aid benefits shall not be...
• Section 18909.
  Section 10850, relating to disclosure of information regarding public assistance recipients, shall apply to information obtained under this chapter.(Amended by Stats. 1983, Ch. 101, Sec.
• Section 18910.
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, the department shall implement the prospective budgeting, semiannual reporting system provided in Sections 11265.1,...
• Section 18910.1.
  All CalFresh households shall be assigned certification periods that are the maximum number of months allowable under federal law for the household type unless a...
• Section 18911.
  (a) An application and an authorization for participation in CalFresh shall be processed within a period of not more than 30 days from the date of...
• Section 18912.
  (a) Each county welfare department shall orally inform each applicant of the availability of expedited service and assistance in filling out the application.(b) Each county welfare department...
• Section 18913.
  The department shall collect, quarterly, expedited service data, on a county-by-county basis, of the number of applications and the disposition of the applications, and shall...
• Section 18914.
  (a) In accordance with, and to the extent provided by, federal law, the county human services agency shall provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis as...
• Section 18914.5.
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, regulations, waivers, and directives, a resident of, or an individual on a waiting list to get into, a...
• Section 18915.
  All applications and public information materials shall be available to potential, present, and past CalFresh recipients in each county in Spanish as well as English...
• Section 18916.
  The board of supervisors of each county shall have the authority to request from the United States Department of Agriculture the simultaneous operation of the...
• Section 18917.
  (a) (1) The department, in consultation with stakeholders, shall identify the necessary elements of a county disaster plan, and shall issue guidance to county human services agencies...
• Section 18918.
  Not later than January 15, 2001, the State Department of Social Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Public Health and appropriate stakeholders, shall...
• Section 18919.
  (a) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.5 (commencing with Section 11340) of Part 1 of Division 3 of Title 2 of...
• Section 18920.
  (a) Notwithstanding any other law, an agreement between the department and a unit of local government, any other unit of state government, or a nonprofit organization...
• Section 18923.
  (a) The State Department of Social Services shall submit a request to the United States Department of Agriculture for a waiver to permit a CalFresh household...
• Section 18924.
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, waiver, demonstration project, or other federal authority, the department shall allow counties to utilize existing information maintained by...
• Section 18925.
  (a) The State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the State Department of Social Services, shall implement a simplified eligibility process as part of...
• Section 18926.
  (a) To the extent permitted by federal law, the department shall annually seek a federal waiver of the existing federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program limitation that...
• Section 18926.1.
  (a) To the extent not prohibited by federal law and guidance, the department shall ensure that all recipients subject to the federal ABAWD time limit described...
• Section 18926.2.
  To the extent not prohibited by federal law and guidance, a recipient who is homeless shall be deemed to be exempt from the federal ABAWD...
• Section 18926.5.
  (a) For the purposes of this chapter, “CalFresh Employment and Training program” or “CalFresh E&T” means the program established under Section 6(d)(4)(B) of the federal Food...
• Section 18926.6.
  In a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T program, a veteran applying for CalFresh benefits who is required to register to work,...
• Section 18926.7.
  (a) (1) To the extent permitted under federal law, the department may contract directly with an entity that provides services on a regional or statewide basis and...
• Section 18927.
  (a) Current and future CalFresh benefits shall be reduced in accordance with subdivisions (c) and (d) to recover an overissuance caused by intentional program violation, as...
• Section 18927.5.
  (a) A county human services agency shall notify the department when a mass overissuance has been identified, and include information in the notification as to whether...

Last modified: October 22, 2018