Nonemployment Issues

• Per MPP §63-405.413, all quarters earned by a noncitizen parent prior to the birth or arrival in the United States can be credited through the quarter the noncitizen attains age 18.

• When an excluded household member fits into two income and/or resource categories, the stricter treatment of income and/or resources is used. This ACIN provides a chart describing which income or resources to use when an excluded household member is in more than one category of exclusion. The chart is divided into four categories; ineligible non-citizens, Social Security Number disqualified people, ineligible students, and ineligible ABAWDs

Employment Issues

• Counties should be sending out a Notice of Action discontinuing FS benefits to an ABAWD in the third month that the ABAWD fails to meet (or be exempt from) the ABAWD requirement. If the county fails to issue the discontinuance notice timely and the ABAWD receives FS benefits for more than three months without meeting or being exempt from the ABAWD work requirement, there is an overissuance.

• If a CalWORKs recipient signs a WtW compliance plan within 20 days after receiving a CalWORKs notice advising of a sanction, per MPP §42-721.27, the sanction is rescinded. Therefore, a FS sanction should also not be imposed. When a participant fails to meet the terms of the compliance plan without good cause, both CalWORKs and FS sanctions are imposed. However, the county must issue a new Notice of Action for each program before imposing such sanctions. See MPP §42-721.29 for CalWORKs and §63-407.541 for food stamps.

• Per §63-408.1, when an individual voluntarily quits a job without good cause, that individual’s FS application should be denied for 90 days from the date of the job quit regardless of whether the job quit was before or after the FS application was made.