Download or read book California Budget Project TANF and CalWORKs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Department of Social Services (DSS) spends the majority of TANF and MOE funds within the CalWORKs program. [...] The county spending requirement for single allocation funds is equal to the amount spent for administration in 1996-97.6 Counties received $1.8 billion and spent an additional $63 million of their own funds on these programs in 2000-01. [...] Mental Health and Substance Abuse Allocations: State law provides for separate funding streams for mental health and substance abuse services for CalWORKs recipients.7 As in the case of single alloca- tion funds, counties were originally allowed to carry over unspent mental health and substance abuse funds to the next fiscal year. [...] Counties spent 96 percent of the amounts allocated to them for employment services and administration in 1999-00 and have spent 45 percent of the 2000-01 allocations in the first two fiscal quarters.13 This pattern can be explained in part by the fact that county programs underwent major transformations in 1998 and 1999 to implement the new CalWORKs program and had not fully ramped up services unt. [...] It is likely that counties will spend the same or a higher percentage of the allocations in 2000-01 based on expendi- tures in the first half of the year.
Download or read book California Budget Project TANF and CalWORKs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TANF funds are combined with state maintenance of effort (MOE) dollars to finance CalWORKs cash assistance, child care, employment services, and related expenditures.1 California has spent 96.1 percent of all funds received since federal fiscal year (FFY) 1997 (Figure 1).2 The state has spent 99.9 percent of TANF funds received in FFY 2000, and 76.2 percent of funds received in the first three qua. [...] COUNTIES ARE SPENDING MAIN EMPLOYMENT SERVICES FUNDS California counties spent essentially all (97.6 percent) of the $1.7 billion single allocation funds in the state fiscal year ending June 30, 2001. [...] Figure 2: Counties Spent All "Single Allocation" Funds in 2000-01 Unspent funds: $42 million (2.4%) Spent funds: $1,686 million (97.6%) Source: Department of Social Services Figure 3: Counties Spent Nearly All of 2000-01 Substance Abuse and Mental Health Allocation Spent funds: $98.3 million (90.3%) Unspent funds: $10.6 million (9.7%) Source: Department of Social Services 3 Counties have also rece. [...] ENDNOTES 1 For a detailed explanation of the funding structure for CalWORKs and TANF, see California Budget Project, TANF and CalWORKs: How California Spends the Money (August 2001). [...] The CBP engages in independent fiscal and policy analysis and public education with the goal of improving public policies affecting the economic and social well- being of low and middle income Californians.
Download or read book California Budget Project CalWORKs written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: California established the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program in 1997 to conform the state's welfare system to the new federal law. [...] In fact, CalWORKs expenditures now exceed available funding by several hundred million dol- lars, and the state has been drawing down the TANF surplus to close the gap.3 Consequently, the TANF surplus is projected to fall to $253 million at the end of fiscal year 2001-02, a 71 percent drop since 1997-98 (Figure 1). [...] This reserve is not large enough to bridge the estimated CalWORKs deficit in 2002-03, prompting the Governor to propose cuts to the program in his Budget (discussed below). [...] The TANF surplus will effectively disappear in 2003.4 In addition to static federal and state funding, two factors have contributed to the emergence of the CalWORKs deficit: • The state and counties have expanded employment and training services and child care subsi- dies, and used TANF and MOE funds to pay for a range of CalWORKs-related initiatives designed to help families transition from welfa. [...] The state reinstated cost-of-living adjustments (COLAs) for cash grants in 1998-99, after suspending COLAs and reducing grant payments during much of the 1990s.10 COLAs increased the maximum monthly CalWORKs grant for a family of three in high-cost regions by 20 percent, from $565 in 1997-98 to $679 in 2001-02.11 However, this is well below the 2002 federal poverty level of $1,252 per month for a.
Download or read book California Budget Project What Do We Know About Former CalWORKs Recipients 7 01 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The California Depart- ment of Social Services (DSS) interviewed 142 former CalWORKs recipients between December 1998 and June 1999 and found that more than half (61 percent) were working at the time of the interview.2 Either the respondent and/or the spouse/partner was working in two-thirds (69 percent) of the households. [...] These occupations employ 22 percent of the California workforce at an average wage of $22.02.22 Welfare recipients in Los Angeles County who are working (i.e., not welfare leavers) are predominately employed in low-wage jobs, according to a recent study by the Economic Roundtable.23 Of the nearly 60,000 welfare recipients in the county who were employed in the third quarter of 1997, over half (61. [...] Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest, Initial Synthesis Report of the Findings from ASPEs Leavers Grants, submitted by The Urban Institute to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (January 4, 2001). [...] Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest, Initial Synthesis Report of the Findings from ASPEs Leavers Grants, submitted by The Urban Institute to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (January 4, 2001). [...] Gregory Acs and Pamela Loprest, Initial Synthesis Report of the Findings from ASPEs Leavers Grants, submitted by The Urban Institute to the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation (January 4, 2001).
Download or read book California Budget Project Governor s Budget Proposes Suspending CalWORKs COLAs 5 02 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: While suspending the COLA would result in a savings of $112 million for the CalWORKs program, it would lead to a loss of purchasing power for families that depend on CalWORKs for cash assistance. [...] COLA SUSPENSION WILL HAVE LONG-TERM IMPACT The current maximum CalWORKs grant is $679 per month for a family of three, and it would increase by $25 to $704 in October 2002 under current law.1 While a one-year suspension of the CalWORKs COLA appears to be a one-time spending reduction, suspending the COLA will impact the value of CalWORKs grants in the future by reducing the grants' base, absent an. [...] Even if the COLA is reinstated next year, CalWORKs grants will be 3.74 percent lower than they would have been in the absence of the suspension. [...] The 1989-90 maximum grant was 83 percent of the federal poverty level (FPL) for a family of three, while the maximum grant under the 2002-03 Governor's Budget would be 54 percent of the FPL. [...] Figure 2: CalWORKs Families Struggle To Keep Up With Housing Costs 3 CONCLUSION Given the fiscal constraints of the CalWORKs program, the savings of $112 million from a COLA suspension should be weighed against the impact on CalWORKs families.
Download or read book California Budget Project Welfare Reform Update CalWORKs Performance Incentives written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In April 2001, a database containing all of the proposed and finalized county projects was posted on the Department of Social Services web site.9 According to the database, counties plan to carry out nearly 700 projects that will cost $1.2 billion, the same amount that counties had earned as of December 2000. [...] Nearly half of the counties (27) propose using the funds as a reserve, and ten counties plan to use the money to supplement their CalWORKs services single allocation funds.10 While these are legitimate uses of public funds, it is not clear that performance incentives are the appropriate funding mechanism. [...] On the other hand, the County Welfare Directors Association noted recently that 11 of the largest counties plan to spend half of their performance incentive funds by June 2002.11 WHAT INCENTIVES HAVE THESE FUNDS CREATED? Presumably the purpose of the incentives is to encourage counties to perform better than they would otherwise in terms of moving recipients toward self-sufficiency. [...] Counties are apparently concerned that they will not have sufficient funds to meet the needs of CalWORKs recipients in the event of an economic downturn and have set aside at least part of their performance incentive dollars for that purpose. [...] In contrast, the May Revision of the Governors Budget proposes that counties use performance incentives for base CalWORKs program costs.14 CONCLUSION The CBP suggests eliminating the current system of performance incentives and using the money more effectively (as outlined above) to help meet the needs of low income Californians.
Download or read book Lasting Returns written by California Budget Project and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book California Budget Project Qhick Hit Updating California s Food Stamps and CalWORKs Vehicle Rule 5 1 01 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 23 years since the food stamp vehicle limit was originally set at $4,500, it has been increased only $150 - about 3 percent - while the Consumer Price Index for cars has nearly tripled.2 For the vehicle limit to have the same value today that the $4,500 limit had in 1977, it would need to be set at $13,196. [...] Under current vehicle rules, CalWORKs and food stamp eligibility determinations are generally based on a vehicle's fair market value, not on the equity a household has in the vehicle.3 A vehicle can disqualify a household from receiving food stamps even if the household has little equity in it, and thus would receive little money from selling the vehicle. [...] This year the DSS estimates that the cost associated with more families being eligible to receive food stamps and CalWORKs will be about $35 million, significantly higher than last year's estimate.13 The DSS has also estimated administrative savings ranging from $2 million to $6.5 million using a variety of assumptions.14 The above estimates suggest that the net impact of exempting one vehicle per. [...] However, new federal rules require California to begin exempting many of these same vehicles.15 The DSS estimates that the cost of implementing the new federal rules will be the same as exempting one vehicle per family.16 Thus the additional cost of exempting vehicles not covered by the federal rules will likely be small and perhaps negligible. [...] Thus, the DSS estimated the cost of implementing the new regulations by estimating the cost of exempting one vehicle per family.
Download or read book California s Response to Recent TANF Changes Should Preserve the Strengths of the CalWORKs Program written by Scott Graves and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Governor s Proposed CalWORKS Changes Would Eliminate Aid for Nearly 200 000 Children written by Scott Graves and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 10 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Recent Cuts to CalWorks Have Significantly Affected Families and Local Communities written by and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 3 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book THE GOVERNOR S PROPOSED BUDGET WOULD DROP NEARLY 200 000 CHILDREN FROM THE CALWORKS PROGRAM written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nearly 200,000 children would lose CalWORKs cash assistance under the Governor's proposals, which depart from the state's historic, bipartisan commitment to provide a strong work incentive for parents, while promoting the well-being of children. [...] Estimates reflect each district's share of the number of children who would lose aid statewide under each proposal, as estimated by the Department of Social Services. [...] Children would lose cash assistance as of June 1, 2008 under the safety-net and child-only proposals and as of June 1, 2009 under the full-family sanctions proposal. [...] Estimates reflect each district's share of the number of children who would lose aid statewide under each proposal, as estimated by the Department of Social Services. [...] Children would lose cash assistance as of June 1, 2008 under the safety-net and child-only proposals and as of June 1, 2009 under the full-family sanctions proposal.
Download or read book California Budget Project Voters Believe That Welfare Reform Should Move Families Out of Poverty 4 02 written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 73% 61% 51% 62% 0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% Percentage Of Voters That Support Changing The Goal Of Welfare Reform To Move People Out Of Poverty, Instead Of Into A Job Where They Will Not Earn Enough To Support Their Family Democrats Independents Republicans Total Voters Believe That The Principal Goal Of Welfare Reform Should Be Moving Families Out Of Poverty 4 THE CONTEXT FOR THE SURVEY: V. [...] Voters Support Changes To Welfare Reform Voters support changing the principal goal of the TANF system to that of moving people out of poverty. [...] Using a scale of 0 to 10, where 10 equals the most important and zero the least importance, voters rate making sure poor children receive basics like food and clothing as the most important goal for change (9.09).3 After meeting the needs of children, voters say an important goal of change is giving people the training and skills they need to get a good job (8.55), and moving families out of pover. [...] The TANF block grant and the state maintenance of effort (MOE) requirement have remained constant since the enactment of welfare reform in 1996.4 The CalWORKs program currently faces a fiscal crisis due to the gap between high and rising program costs on the one hand, and flat funding on the other. [...] State flexibility has allowed California to give counties the ability to address the CalWORKs recipients' wide range of needs, to reflect the diversity of local economic conditions throughout the state, and to craft programs that reflect the needs and preferences of local communities.
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