California Department of Social Services - State Hearings Division
Notes from the Training Bureau - December 10, 1996

Effective September 1, 1996, the State Only AFDC Pregnant Woman and State Only Pregnancy Special Need Programs are eliminated for all AFDC applications made on or after September 1, 1996. A pregnant woman who has no aided child cannot receive AFDC benefits for an Assistance Unit (AU) of one for any month that is more than three months prior to the month of anticipated birth. A pregnant woman may also no longer receive a pregnancy special need for any month that is more than three months prior to the month of anticipated birth.

Although there is no longer any state only AFDC program, pregnant women may still be eligible for AFDC for an AU of one and for a pregnancy special need under the federal AFDC program until that program expires on June 30, 1997. Under the federal (and now only) AFDC program, a pregnant woman may receive AFDC for an AU of one and also receive pregnancy special need if she has a child, if born, who would have been eligible to receive AFDC AND also has a pregnancy that has reached the three month period prior to the month of anticipated birth OR whose child would have been eligible to AFDC, if born, and the mother is under age 19 and has not obtained a high school diploma or equivalent.