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County of San Bernardino Human Services
INTERIM INSTRUCTION NOTICE #13-005
JANUARY 24, 2013
SUBJECT: Annual Reporting/Child Only (AR/CO) CalWORKs Cases – Phase 2
DISTRIBUTION: CalWORKs, CalFresh FILE: CalWORKs: In Front of Handbook.
CalFresh: In Front of Handbook
REFERENCE: ACL 12-49
OBSOLETE: When Information is Added
to Handbook.
Overview C-IV will release SCR 45912 – Implementation of Annual Reporting Child
Only (AR/CO) Cases – Phase 2 on 1/28/13 to add functionality for
automation of the AR/CO policy. This SCR will:
Add the validation “Cannot run [Program] EDBC with [Run Reason] run
reason” to the Run EDBC page when the:
– QR 7 or QR 7/RE run reasons are selected for a month in which the
CalWORKs program is Annual Reporting (AR) with a reporting reason
of Child Only, and
– QR 7, QR 7/RE, Elect regular/QR 7 or Elect Regular/QR 7/RE run
reasons are selected for a month in which the CalFresh program is
Change Reporting (CR),
Update Notices of Action (NOAs) to include CalWORKs AR budget
information,
Add No Change NOAs for CalWORKs AR and CalFresh,
Add the following forms to the template repository:
– AR 2 – Reporting Changes For CalWORKs and CalFresh,
– AR 3 – Mid-year Status Report For CalWORKs and CalFresh, and
– NA 1239 AR – Notice of Action (Continued) Annual Reporting Budget,
Skip benefits when the CalWORKs AR Re-Evaluation (RE) is not
complete, and
Allow CalWORKs mid-period changes to adjust grant amounts.
The AR Income Reporting Threshold (IRT) will not be implemented in C-IV
with the release of SCR 45912. The IRT will be implemented at a later date.
The CalWORKs AR Notices of Action (NOAs) will not include the IRT
amounts until the IRT functionality has been automated in C-IV. Eligibility
Workers (EWs) will continue to send the AR 2 - Reporting Changes for
CalWORKs and CalFresh to notify the customer of his/her IRT.
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