California Department of Social Services - State
Hearings Division
Notes from the Training Bureau - September 7, 2001
| Item 01-09-01A ACWDL 01-30 - - May 4, 2001 (Synopsis): Change to the §1931(b) 100-Hour Deprivation Earned Income Test |
Change to the §1931(b) 100-Hour Deprivation Earned Income Test
Effective March 1, 2000, an earned income test was added for §1931(b) applicants and for applicants and recipients of the AFDC-MN program when the principal wage earner (PWE) was working 100 hours or more monthly. Effective March 1, 2000, the county was to add up the nonexempt earned income of the PWE, the spouse or second parent and children. If the combined nonexempt income of this family was at or below the applicable 100% Federal Poverty Level (FPL), the children were considered to be deprived due to employment even if the PWE worked in excess of 100 hours monthly.
The DHS requested a state plan amendment to exclude all earned income of children for purposes of determining if the family income met the 100% FPL test. Counties were instructed to flag all cases in which an applicant family for §1931(b) or an applicant or recipient family for AFDC-MN was denied after May 1, 2001 due to excess earned income which included earned income of the child.
Since ACWDL 01-30 was issued, the state plan amendment has been approved and effective May 1, 2001, all earned income of children is excluded for purposes of the 100-hour rule as described in this ACWDL. This ACWDL also included as an attachment an Unemployed Parent Determination Worksheet (MC 337). That form will be revised and separated into two separate forms; one for §1931(b) applicants and a second form for AFDC-MN applicants and recipients.