California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) provides temporary financial assistance and employment related services to needy families with minor children who are deprived of parental support or care due to absence, disability, unemployment/underemployment, or death of a parent. The program is designed to help families meet their basic needs in difficult times, while helping them to enter or reenter the workforce and become self-sufficient. Aided adults must participate in the Welfare-to-Work program unless exempt. A variety of supportive services are available through the Welfare-to-Work program, such as supervised job search, child care, transportation assistance, and referrals as needed to Mental Health, Mental Health Prevention Programs, Public Health, Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD), and Domestic Abuse shelter. If you are not exempt from participation and you do not participate in assigned activities, your cash aid may be lowered or stopped. Special services are also available for pregnant and parenting teens through the Cal-Learn Program.
CalWORKs – Changes · EBT cards look like DEBIT cards and make benefits easier than ever to access. · Effective April 1, 2015, no person will be denied aid because they have a prior felony drug conviction. · Effective January 1, 2017 no child will be denied cash aid because the child was born into a family receiving CalWORKs. The Maximum Family Grant (MFG) rule has been repealed. · Effective July 1, 2018, the Statewide Fingerprinting Imaging System (SFIS) will no longer be required.
You may be eligible for immediate assistance if you have an Immediate Need • You are homeless, have an eviction notice, a notice to pay rent or move; or • Your food will run out within three days; or • Your utilities have been or will be shut off; or • You don’t have sufficient clothing or diapers; or • You have another kind of emergency important to health and safety.
For Immediate Need, only identification is required for the first month’s benefit and other verification can be postponed. The second month of benefits cannot be granted until the postponed verification is provided. Benefit Amounts The amount of a family’s monthly assistance payment depends on income, relationship and the number of eligible people in the home.
Eligibility Factors
Items that will not count against your eligibility · The value of your home will not count as a resource as long as you live in the home, · Personal and household items such as furniture, appliances, computers, etc., · Tools needed for self-employment, · Federal relocation and disaster relief benefits, · Property, if it is owned with someone else who is not in assistance unit.
How to Get Help
Apply Online: Visit C4Yourself.com to apply
C4Yourself is an online application system that allows you to apply for benefits. Once you create an account you can apply for benefits, open saved applications, check messages, view forms, check benefits, and view things to do.
If you apply online, a letter will be mailed to you for your face to face interview. All parents of children in the home must be present at the intake interview.
In Person: · Applications are available and accepted during regular business hours · 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., · Monday through Friday · Our office is located at 880 Northcrest Drive, Crescent City
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