County Fiscal Incentives Counties given wide flexibility to design own programs and set their own goals for getting people to work. Federal penalties to counties that do not meet the work requirements are shared 50-50 between the state and the applicable counties. Failure to immunize results in a reduction of aid to the parents' share of the grant. The grant amount is restored when the children are immunized. Immunizations are contrary to religious beliefs.
Immunizations are medically inappropriate.
Cal Learn participants are exempt from CalWORKs school attendance requirements. The hours increase to 25 hours each week in FY 1999 and 30 hours in FY 2000. The rate increases to 90 percent by FY 1999 and beyond. States cannot use federal funds for families which have an adult who has been on aid for five years. The five year limit for federal funds begins once a state begins to use the TANF block grant.