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2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 4 - Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs › Section 15151.

15151. During the times that grants-in-aid are provided or made available by the United States government for the purpose of defraying any portion of the costs of administration incurred for public assistance, the State Treasurer shall pay to each county an amount equal to the county’s proportionate share of the sum so granted for the cost of administration, which amount shall be used exclusively for paying the administrative costs. Except as provided in Section 15151.5, the department shall determine the portion of the amount so granted or made available for administrative costs to be paid to the counties, which portion shall be determined pursuant to rules and regulations of the department and shall be not less than one-half of the amount so granted or made available. The department shall adopt rules and regulations that shall be of uniform application for determining the proportionate shares of the respective counties of the portion so determined to be paid to those counties.
This section shall become operative and shall supersede provision (2) of Section 15150 during the times that grants by the United States government, provided or made available to defray any portion of administrative costs incurred for public assistance, are not computed as a proportion of those costs of administration. Whenever this section is in effect, all other sections referring to Section 15150 shall also be deemed to refer to this section.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 303, Sec. 623. (AB 731) Effective January 1, 2016. Section conditionally operative as prescribed by its own provisions.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 4 - Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs › Section 15151.5.

15151.5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (2) of Section 15150 and Section 15151, the counties shall receive at least 66 percent of the amounts payable to the state with respect to the services subject to the limitations of Title XX of the Social Security Act, provided:
(a) That the total federal allocation of funds for social services under the public assistance programs shall be fully distributed and utilized in each fiscal year;
(b) That in the event that federal funds so allocated have not been utilized, the department shall reallocate the unused funds in such a manner that they may be fully utilized for the purposes for which they are received.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 714, Sec. 3.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 4 - Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs › Section 15152.

15152. From the sums appropriated therefor by the State of California, the State Treasurer shall pay to each county an additional amount, which shall be used exclusively for public assistance, equal to that proportion of the aid grants paid by the county under each public assistance program as is specified in the appropriation for that program, after deducting from the sums so expended the amount paid to the county under subdivision (1) of Section 15150 of this code.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 4 - Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs › Section 15153.5.

15153.5. Notwithstanding any provision of this article to the contrary, state and federal funds normally due counties for aid payments in behalf of appropriate participants under work incentive programs administered by the Employment Development Department, and the families of such participants, shall be transferred by the Controller to the Employment Development Department for use in administering the work incentive program. In addition, an amount of money not in excess of the county share of such aid payments shall be determined and deducted from advances of state and federal funds due counties pursuant to Section 15153.
The State Department of Social Services and the Employment Development Department, subject to the approval of the Director of Finance and the Controller, shall establish procedures and methods for the maintenance of information and accounts and the preparation of reports essential to meet federal requirements, and to provide the Controller with financial statements to support the required transfer of funds.
(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 4 - Payment of State and Federal Funds to Counties for Public Assistance Programs › Section 15154.

15154. Reports of amounts paid out for public assistance shall be presented by the respective counties at times and in the form prescribed by the department. Such reports shall be audited by the department and the State Controller, and, when and in the amount approved, shall be allowed to the county as a credit to apply against advances made under the terms of Section 15153.
(Added by Stats. 1965, Ch. 1784.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15200.05.

15200.05. (a) Federal block grant funds received for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program pursuant to subtitle A (commencing with Section 401) of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.) may be deposited in, and shall be administered through, the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Fund, which is hereby created in the State Treasury. Upon authorization by the Director of Finance, special accounts may be established within this fund, and the fund may be used in accounting for any federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant funds received from the federal government after August 22, 1996.
(b) A fund condition statement for the federal block grant received for the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program shall be provided to the Department of Finance with the estimates submitted pursuant to subdivision (d) of Section 10614 whether or not the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families Fund created by this section is used for the deposit and administration of those moneys.
(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 108, Sec. 48. Effective July 10, 2000.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15200.4.

15200.4. (a) In administering the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program provided for under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200), excluding provisions relating to foster care, the director may impose sanctions as provided by this section to assure adequate county administration performance. Fiscal sanctions may be imposed against a county only if the department has conducted, within the county, a statistically reliable and valid case sample with a confidence level of at least 95 percent.
(b) The director may hold counties financially liable for aid paid to ineligible persons and aid paid to eligible persons in excess of the amount to which they are entitled as represented by a dollar error rate. There shall be established annually in the Budget Act a dollar error rate standard which shall be the basis for computing a county’s liability under this section for the two subsequent quality control review periods for which error rates are generated. Counties which exceed the standard during the sanction period may be apportioned a sanction no greater than the state share of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children program payments multiplied by the amount by which the statistical measure of the lower point estimate of their error rate exceeded the standard.
(c) If a federal fiscal sanction is imposed against the state as a result of the state’s dollar error rate being above the federally established tolerance level, the director shall pass the sanction on to the counties in accordance with regulations adopted by the director which establish a method for equitable distribution of the sanction. The amount assessed to any county may be reduced or set aside if the director finds that extenuating circumstances existed and that imposition of the full sanction amount would unfairly penalize the county.
(Amended by Stats. 1982, Ch. 1025, Sec. 1. Effective September 14, 1982.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15200.5.

15200.5. Notwithstanding the provisions of subdivision (c) of Section 15200, the county shall be responsible for 100 percent of the nonfederal share of payments to needy children eligible for AFDC-FC under the conditions of Section 11402.5, and for payments made to foster parents pursuant to Section 11410.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 845, Sec. 2. Effective September 28, 2004.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15201.

15201. There is hereby continuously appropriated out of any moneys in the State Treasury not otherwise appropriated to the department for allocation to the Secretary of the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for payment of an amount equal to the amount of any grants made by the secretary as supplemental payments to aged, blind or disabled persons under the provisions of Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of this part, less amounts payable by the federal government pursuant to Section 401 of Title IV of the Social Security Act Amendments of 1972.
The amendment of this section by Chapter 871 of the Statutes of 1974 does not constitute a change in, but is declaratory of, the preexisting law.
(Amended by Stats. 1976, Ch. 504.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15203.

15203. The state shall pay for an amount equal to the amount of any grant made by the county for blind persons who come within the provisions of Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 13000) of this part by any appropriation therefor in the Budget Act.
(Amended by Stats. 1975, Ch. 512.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.1.

15204.1. Commencing on June 1, 1973, the state shall pay, in addition to its share of costs of public assistance under Sections 15200 and 15203, an amount equal to 100 percent of the nonfederal share of increases in grants made pursuant to Section 11006.1 and pursuant to the amendments to Section 11450 made during the 1972 Regular Session.
(Amended by Stats. 1973, Ch. 1216.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.15.

15204.15. To the extent permitted by federal law and upon authorization pursuant to statute, including the annual Budget Act, the Director of Finance may transfer moneys in the Federal Trust Fund derived from the federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant for augmentation of moneys received pursuant to the federal Child Care and Development Block Grant and the block grant provided for pursuant to Title XX of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 1397). The transfer may be made not sooner than 30 days after notification, in writing, to the chairperson of the committee in each house of the Legislature that considers appropriations and the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, or not sooner than whatever lesser time the Chairperson of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee or his or her designee may, in each instance, determine.
(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 606, Sec. 48. Effective October 3, 1997.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.35.

15204.35. (a) The State Department of Social Services shall work with representatives of county human services agencies and the County Welfare Directors Association of California to develop recommendations for revising the methodology used for development of the CalWORKs single allocation annual budget. As part of the process of developing these recommendations, the department shall consult with legislative staff, advocates, and organizations that represent county workers.
(b) (1) Recommendations for initial changes to the methodology for development of the CalWORKs single allocation for the 2018–19 fiscal year shall be made to the Legislature by January 10, 2018.
(2) Recommendations for additional changes to the methodology for the 2019–20 and subsequent fiscal years shall be made to the Legislature by October 1, 2018.
(c) The State Department of Social Services shall work with representatives of county human services agencies and the County Welfare Directors Association of California for purposes of continuing to develop the casework metrics used for the budgeting of funding for employment services in the CalWORKs single allocation and to develop the budgeting methodology for welfare-to-work direct services during the 2019–20 fiscal year. As part of the process of developing this budgeting methodology, the department shall consult with legislative staff, advocates, and organizations that represent county workers.
(d) The number of hours per case per month of case work time budgeted for intensive cases as defined pursuant to the budget methodology changes for the employment services component of the CalWORKs single allocation developed pursuant to this section shall be incrementally increased for each of the 2021–22 and 2022–23 fiscal years. Subject to an appropriation in the Budget Act of 2023, as of July 1, 2023, the number of hours per case per month of case work time budgeted for intensive cases shall again be incrementally increased, and in the 2024–25 fiscal year, effective July 1, 2024, it shall be 10 hours.
(e) The State Department of Social Services, in consultation with representatives of county human services agencies and the County Welfare Directors Association of California, shall reconsider the costs of county operations for county administrative costs in the CalWORKs single allocation for the 2024–25 fiscal year and for every third fiscal year thereafter. The State Department of Social Services shall provide information to the legislative budget committees regarding this reconsideration and how it may impact county administrative costs as part of the budget proposed by either January 10 or May 14 of any year prior to the fiscal year for which this provision applies.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 573, Sec. 22. (AB 207) Effective September 27, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.4.

15204.4. In addition to the funds received under Section 15204.2, counties shall be required to expend money from their own funds, either from the county’s general fund or from the social services account of the county health and welfare trust fund to support administration of programs providing services to needy families. Each county shall expend an amount for these programs that, when combined with funds expended under Section 18906.5 for administration of CalFresh, equals or exceeds the amount spent by that county for corresponding activities during the 1996–97 fiscal year. Failure to meet this required level of spending shall result in a proportionate reduction of the funds provided under Section 15204.2. In those cases the Director of Social Services shall report to the Legislature within 30 days his or her findings relative to the ability of the county, with reduced funds, to meet its obligations in administering the affected programs. The report shall include any relevant information related to the performance of the county.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 227, Sec. 64. (AB 1400) Effective January 1, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.5.

15204.5. The department shall establish and maintain a plan whereby costs for county administration of the payment of aid grants under this part will be effectively controlled within the amounts annually appropriated for such administration. The plan, to be known as the County Administrative Cost Control Plan, shall establish standards and performance criteria, including workload, productivity and support services standards, to which counties shall adhere. The plan shall be part of a single state plan, jointly developed by the department and the State Department of Health Care Services, in conjunction with the counties, for administrative cost control for the Aid to Families with Dependent Children (AFDC), CalFresh, and Medical Assistance (Medi-Cal) programs. Allocations shall be made to each county and shall be limited by and determined based upon the County Administrative Cost Control Plan. In administering the plan to control county administrative costs, the department shall not allocate state funds to cover county cost overruns which result from county failure to meet requirements of the plan. The department and the State Department of Health Care Services shall budget, administer, and allocate state funds for county administration in a uniform and a consistent manner.
(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 227, Sec. 65. (AB 1400) Effective January 1, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.8.

15204.8. (a) The Legislature may appropriate annually in the Budget Act funds to support services provided pursuant to Sections 11325.7 and 11325.8.
(b) Funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (a) shall be allocated to the counties separately and shall be available for expenditure by the counties for services provided during the budget year. A county may move funds between the two accounts during the budget year for expenditure if necessary to meet the particular circumstances in the county. Any unexpended funds may be retained by each county for expenditure for the same purposes during the succeeding fiscal year. By November 20, 1998, each county shall report to the department on the use of these funds.
(c) Beginning January 10, 1999, the Department of Finance shall report annually to the Legislature on the extent to which funds available under subdivision (a) have not been spent and may reallocate the unexpended balances so as to better meet the need for services.
(d) No later than September 1, 2001, the department in consultation with relevant stakeholders, which may include the County Welfare Directors Association and the County Behavioral Health Directors Association of California, shall develop the allocation methodology for these funds, including the specific components to be considered in allocating the funds.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 455, Sec. 61. (SB 804) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15204.9.

15204.9. (a) Prior to the 2011–12 fiscal year, the state shall pay 70 percent of the nonfederal administrative costs of administering the Aid to Families with Dependent Children Foster Care program under Article 5 (commencing with Section 11400) of Chapter 2.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), beginning in the 2011–12 fiscal year, and for each fiscal year thereafter, funding and expenditures for programs and activities under this section shall be in accordance with the requirements provided in Sections 30025 and 30026.5 of the Government Code.
(Amended by Stats. 2012, Ch. 35, Sec. 101. (SB 1013) Effective June 27, 2012.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15205.

15205. Notwithstanding the other provisions of this article, there shall be deducted from the moneys appropriated to each county under this article a sum equal to the state and county shares of the public assistance grant that would otherwise be payable each month for each person transferred by the department to the Department of Rehabilitation for vocational rehabilitation pursuant to an agreement under Section 10652. In the case of a member or members of a family unit receiving aid to families with dependent children, the sum to be deducted and transferred shall be equal to the state and county shares of the public assistance grant on behalf of the family. Such sum shall be transferred in the Budget Act to the Department of Rehabilitation and used to provide vocational rehabilitation services for such persons as provided in Section 10652.
(Added by Stats. 1968, Ch. 1369.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15206.

15206. The department is hereby authorized to establish those administrative support positions necessary to carry out the provisions of Chapter 924 of the Statutes of 1975. These positions shall be 75 percent federally funded and 25 percent state funded.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 504.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9 - Financial Provisions › ARTICLE 5 - Appropriations for Public Assistance › Section 15207.

15207. The county shall estimate the social security increases for the month of October and such estimated increase shall be taken into consideration in determining eligibility for and the amount of the October 1, 1972, grant for recipients of aid under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 13000) of Part 3 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code.
(Added by Stats. 1976, Ch. 504.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 15300.

15300. The Legislature finds that:
(a) Elderly persons, like any other persons, prefer to remain in their own homes rather than in dependent living situations, including long-term care facilities.
(b) Many elderly persons, with a minimal to moderate amount of supportive services, mainly nonmedical in character, could maintain themselves at home; others, with slightly more support and perhaps day care supervision, could remain in independent living situations or homes of relatives or friends. Yet it is just this nonmedical, nontechnical level of supportive services that is largely unavailable to the vast majority of old persons.
(c) Most elderly persons living on fixed incomes cannot afford private help or the cost of home health or homemaker agencies; elderly low-income public assistance recipients can receive such care only in limited circumstances under welfare cash grant attendant care or homemaker programs.
(d) Supportive personal and social care in many cases enables the elderly to maintain a state of health that decreases or postpones the need for health care.
(e) Reducing or postponing the need for health care is not only beneficial to the elderly individual’s general welfare but also results in economic savings both to the individual, his or her family, and the people of California in cases where the elderly person is also a recipient of public assistance or potentially in need of public funds through cash grants, Medi-Cal, or use of state or county facilities.
(f) Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act are largely concerned with crisis or short-term care; there are no adequate programs, public or private, which financially assist the elderly person to maintain his independence, health and mobility at home.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 15301.

15301. The purpose of this chapter is to use on an experimental pilot project basis, two model supportive care projects supervised by the State Department of Aging.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 2 - Definitions › Section 15325.

15325. Unless the context otherwise requires, the definitions in this section govern the construction of this chapter.
(a) “Project” means a model supportive services project supervised by the State Department of Aging.
(b) “Office” means the State Department of Aging.
(c) “Elderly persons” means persons aged 60 and over.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 3 - Scope of Services › Section 15350.

15350. The projects shall specifically delineate the scope and nature of services to be offered to participants. Services shall include:
(a) Assistance with shopping.
(b) Assistance with meal preparation.
(c) Assistance with laundry.
(d) Assistance with home upkeep and management.
(e) Help with personal care and dressing.
(f) Transportation to any offered services not available at the participant’s home.
(g) Counseling and information and referral services on financial, relocation, legal and other matters.
(h) Geriatric diagnostic health clinics at specified and limited places and times.
(i) A coordinating service for emergency and crisis intervention.
(j) Limited medical services, plus emergency medicine.
(k) Physical therapy (planned functional restitution).
(l) Social services.
(m) A hot meal per day.
(n) Social activities.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 3 - Scope of Services › Section 15351.

15351. Projects may offer day care centers providing necessary meals, personal care and therapeutic activities.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 3 - Scope of Services › Section 15352.

15352. Supportive care organization services shall be made available as needed. “Need” determinations shall be made jointly by the participants and project’s staff. Any disagreements shall be appealable.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 4 - Eligibility and Enrollment › Section 15375.

15375. Projects shall establish eligibility criteria in order that a mix is obtained which will include both short-term and long-term participants who will make maximum use of the projects’ resources. Priorities must be explained in full prior to contracting with the department and may be modified by the project, with departmental approval.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 4 - Eligibility and Enrollment › Section 15376.

15376. Participants shall be charged on a sliding-fee scale basis which is reasonably related to ability to pay. An effort shall be made by the projects to give priority to low-income elderly persons. The department shall develop guidelines regarding the fees for service. The department shall make every effort to obtain necessary waivers for use of Medicare and Medicaid funds for services offered by the projects. The purposes of obtaining such waivers is to provide for the type of care specified in Sections 15350 and 15351, in addition to and not in lieu of any existing benefits currently available under the Medicare and Medicaid programs.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 4 - Eligibility and Enrollment › Section 15377.

15377. No copayment charges shall be imposed upon Medi-Cal enrollees.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15400.

15400. The supportive care organization shall make a concerted effort to employ persons over the age of 40 when such qualified personnel are available.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15401.

15401. The project shall provide a single standard record for each participant, and shall cooperate with subcontractors and providers of noncovered services to maintain a complete unit record for each participant.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15402.

15402. The projects shall provide to the department and to the participants such statistical information regarding utilization of services, age and sex, specific mortality and morbidity rates, patient discomfort, patient disability, patient satisfaction, services supplied, quality of care, manpower resources, and class of health care and administration, compiled from its basic data system, as the department may require.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15403.

15403. The projects shall establish procedures for continuous review of utilization and cost of services.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15404.

15404. Participation in a supportive care project plan shall be voluntary and the project shall not use false advertising or any other form of coercion to induce enrollment. Failure to comply with this section will constitute a substantial breach of contract.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15405.

15405. A participant grievance procedure must be established by the project through which an aggrieved participant may submit his complaint to the project which will hear and take action on the complaint.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 5 - Administration › Section 15406.

15406. If the participant is not satisfied with the project’s disposition of his grievance, he may appeal the project’s decision to the department. The department shall make a written determination within 30 days. Findings and recommendations of the department shall be binding upon the project.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 6 - Implementation and Evaluation › Section 15450.

15450. The department shall request such waivers as are necessary for the use of health care moneys provided under Titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act from the Department of Health, Education and Welfare for the purposes of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1979, Ch. 373.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 9.5 - Supportive Care Organizations › ARTICLE 6 - Implementation and Evaluation › Section 15451.

15451. Only federal funds may be used for the purposes of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1974, Ch. 992.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 10 - Supplemental Food Program › ARTICLE 1 - General Provisions › Section 15500.

15500. Unless the context otherwise requires the definitions set forth in this article govern the construction of this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15501. “Supplemental food” means commodities specifically made available by the United States Department of Agriculture for persons in low-income groups vulnerable to malnutrition.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15502. “Groups vulnerable to malnutrition” means women during and for 12 months after pregnancy, infants through 12 months, and preschool children 1 year through 5 years.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15503. Persons from low-income groups include the following:
(a) Persons receiving medical assistance under Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) of this part.
(b) Persons qualified to receive free health care or health care that is substantially free provided by the Office of Economic Opportunity’s Neighborhood Health Center Program or state, county, or local public health services.
(c) Persons eligible for treatment, correction of defects, or aftercare in the children and youth projects of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare.
(d) Indians receiving free medical and health care from the Division of Indian Health, United States Public Health Service.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15504. Public social services as defined in Section 10051 also includes the supplemental food program provided in this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15510. The director shall administer the provisions of this chapter and shall adopt such rules and regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of this chapter.
(Amended by Stats. 1977, Ch. 1252.)
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15511. The county welfare department shall carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this chapter, subject to the supervision of the department and to rules and regulations adopted by the department.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15512. Application for supplemental food shall be made to the county welfare agency who shall determine program eligibility.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15513. The county welfare department shall contract with the local health department to determine the need of eligible persons for the nutrients in supplemental food and the local health department shall issue prescriptions for such food in specified amounts and varieties judged necessary for such persons health.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15514. The California State Education Agency for Surplus Property shall procure, store, handle, and dispose of supplemental food under rules and regulations of the department established pursuant to this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15520. The department shall pay the nonfederal share of the administration of program pursuant to this chapter.
(Added by Stats. 1970, Ch. 1195.)
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15601. The purposes of this act are to:
(a) Require health practitioners, care custodians, clergy members, and employees of county adult protective services agencies and local law enforcement agencies to report known or suspected cases of abuse of elders and dependent adults and to encourage community members in general to do so.
(b) Collect information on the numbers of abuse victims, circumstances surrounding the act of abuse, and other data which will aid the state in establishing adequate services to aid all victims of abuse in a timely, compassionate manner.
(c) Provide for protection under the law for all those persons who report suspected cases of abuse, provided that the report is not made with malicious intent.
(Amended by Stats. 2002, Ch. 54, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 2003.)
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15610. The definitions contained in this article shall govern the construction of this chapter, unless the context requires otherwise.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 594, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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15610.02. (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:
(1) The adult protective services program (program), established by the Legislature as a statewide program in 1998, is a critical component of the state’s safety net for vulnerable adults.
(2) The population served by the county-run, state-overseen program has grown and changed significantly since the program’s inception and will continue to do so at a rapid pace, given the increasing number of older adults in California. California’s over-65 years of age population is expected to be 87 percent higher in 2030 than in 2012, an increase of more than 4,000,000 people. The population over 85 years of age will increase at an even faster rate, with 489 percent growth between 2010 and 2060.
(3) The increasing population of older adults often has more complex needs, including persons with cognitive impairments and a growing number of those experiencing homelessness. Research indicates that approximately 50 percent of homeless individuals are over 50 years of age, and one-half of those individuals became homeless after 50 years of age.
(b) In order to address the safety and well-being of the growing number of diverse older adults who will need adult protective services, it is the intent of the Legislature to enhance the program in a number of ways, including enabling the program to provide longer term case management for those with more complex cases, expanding and making more flexible the Home Safe Program to aid clients facing homelessness, and encouraging the use of collaborative, multidisciplinary best practices across the state, including financial abuse specialist teams and forensic centers. It is further the intent of the Legislature to expand the age of clients served under the program in order to intervene earlier with aging adults before their situations reach a crisis point.
(Added by Stats. 2021, Ch. 85, Sec. 62. (AB 135) Effective July 16, 2021.)
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15610.05. “Abandonment” means the desertion or willful forsaking of an elder or a dependent adult by anyone having care or custody of that person under circumstances in which a reasonable person would continue to provide care and custody.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 594, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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15610.06. “Abduction” means the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint from returning to this state, of any elder or dependent adult who does not have the capacity to consent to the removal from this state and the restraint from returning to this state, or the restraint from returning to this state, as well as the removal from this state or the restraint from returning to this state, of any conservatee without the consent of the conservator or the court.
(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 663, Sec. 2. Effective January 1, 1998.)
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15610.07. (a) “Abuse of an elder or a dependent adult” means any of the following:
(1) Physical abuse, neglect, abandonment, isolation, abduction, or other treatment with resulting physical harm or pain or mental suffering.
(2) The deprivation by a care custodian of goods or services that are necessary to avoid physical harm or mental suffering.
(3) Financial abuse, as defined in Section 15610.30.
(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2016.
(Repealed (in Sec. 1) and added by Stats. 2015, Ch. 285, Sec. 2. (SB 196) Effective January 1, 2016. Section operative July 1, 2016, by its own provisions.)
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15610.10. “Adult protective services” means those activities performed on behalf of elders and dependent adults who have come to the attention of the adult protective services agency due to potential abuse or neglect.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 85, Sec. 63. (AB 135) Effective July 16, 2021.)
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15610.13. “Adult protective services agency” means a county welfare department, except persons who do not work directly with elders or dependent adults as part of their official duties, including members of support staff and maintenance staff.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 594, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1995.)
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15610.15. “Division” means the Division of Medi-Cal Fraud and Elder Abuse within the office of the Attorney General.
(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 554, Sec. 13. (SB 823) Effective January 1, 2022.)