reglab/statecodes huggingface dataset:
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11451.5.

11451.5. (a) The following income shall be exempt from the calculation of the income of the family for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 11450:
(1) If disability-based unearned income does not exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225), both of the following amounts:
(A) All disability-based unearned income, plus any amount of not otherwise exempt earned income equal to the amount of the difference between the amount of disability-based unearned income and two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225).
(B) Fifty percent of all not otherwise exempt earned income in excess of the amount applied to meet the differential applied in subparagraph (A).
(2) If disability-based unearned income exceeds two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225), both of the following amounts:
(A) All of the first two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225) in disability-based unearned income.
(B) Fifty percent of all earned income.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) Earned income means gross income received as wages, salary, employer-provided sick leave benefits, commissions, or profits from activities such as a business enterprise or farming in which the recipient is engaged as a self-employed individual or as an employee.
(2) Disability-based unearned income means state disability insurance benefits, private disability insurance benefits, temporary workers’ compensation benefits, social security disability benefits, and any veteran’s disability compensation.
(3) Unearned income means any income not described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(c) This section shall become inoperative on June 1, 2020, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement Section 11451.5, as added by Section 60 of the act that added this subdivision, whichever date is later, and as of that date is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 27, Sec. 59. (SB 80) Effective June 27, 2019. Repealed on or after June 1, 2020, as prescribed by its own provisions.)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 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11451.5.

11451.5. (a) Except as provided in subdivision (c), the following income shall be exempt from the calculation of the income of the family for purposes of subdivision (a) of Section 11450:
(1) If disability-based unearned income does not exceed two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225), both of the following amounts:
(A) All disability-based unearned income, plus any amount of not otherwise exempt earned income equal to the amount of the difference between the amount of disability-based unearned income and two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225).
(B) Fifty percent of all not otherwise exempt earned income in excess of the amount applied to meet the differential applied in subparagraph (A).
(2) If disability-based unearned income exceeds two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225), both of the following amounts:
(A) All of the first two hundred twenty-five dollars ($225) in disability-based unearned income.
(B) Fifty percent of all earned income.
(b) For purposes of this section:
(1) Earned income means gross income received as wages, salary, employer-provided sick leave benefits, commissions, or profits from activities such as a business enterprise or farming in which the recipient is engaged as a self-employed individual or as an employee.
(2) Disability-based unearned income means state disability insurance benefits, private disability insurance benefits, temporary workers’ compensation benefits, social security disability benefits, paid family leave benefits, and any veteran’s disability compensation.
(3) Unearned income means any income not described in paragraph (1) or (2).
(c) Each two-hundred-twenty-five-dollar ($225) amount specified in subdivision (a), shall be increased as follows:
(1) Effective the date on which this section becomes operative pursuant to subdivision (d), to five hundred dollars ($500).
(2) Effective one year from the date on which this section becomes operative pursuant to subdivision (d), to five hundred fifty dollars ($550).
(3) Effective two years from the date on which this section becomes operative pursuant to subdivision (d), to six hundred dollars ($600).
(d) This section shall become operative on October 1, 2024, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare Systems (SAWS) can perform the necessary automation to implement this section, whichever is later.
(Repealed (in Sec. 5) and added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 588, Sec. 6. (AB 2300) Effective January 1, 2023. Conditionally operative on or after October 1, 2024, by its own provisions.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11452.018.

11452.018. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the minimum basic standards of adequate care, as set forth in Section 11452, and as adjusted pursuant to any other provision of law, shall be changed for each county to reflect regional variations in housing cost based on the lowest quartile rent in each county as reported in the Decennial Census data for 1990.
(b) Counties are assigned to one of two regions and the minimum basic standards of adequate care for counties in those regions are reduced as follows:
(1) Region 1 shall include all counties with lowest quartile rents of four hundred dollars ($400) or more. There shall be no reduction in minimum basic standard of adequate care for counties in Region 1. Region 1 shall consist of the following counties:
(A) Alameda County
(B) Contra Costa County
(C) Los Angeles County
(D) Marin County
(E) Monterey County
(F) Napa County
(G) Orange County
(H) San Diego County
(I) San Francisco County
(J) San Luis Obispo County
(K) San Mateo County
(L) Santa Barbara County
(M) Santa Clara County
(N) Santa Cruz County
(O) Solano County
(P) Sonoma County
(Q) Ventura County
(2) Region 2 shall include all counties with lowest quartile rents below four hundred dollars ($400). There shall be a 4.9 percent reduction in the minimum basic standard of adequate care for counties in Region 2. Region 2 shall consist of the following counties:
(A) Alpine County
(B) Amador County
(C) Butte County
(D) Calaveras County
(E) Colusa County
(F) Del Norte County
(G) El Dorado County
(H) Fresno County
(I) Glenn County
(J) Humboldt County
(K) Imperial County
(L) Inyo County
(M) Kern County
(N) Kings County
(O) Lake County
(P) Lassen County
(Q) Madera County
(R) Mariposa County
(S) Mendocino County
(T) Merced County
(U) Modoc County
(V) Mono County
(W) Nevada County
(X) Placer County
(Y) Plumas County
(Z) Riverside County
(AA) Sacramento County
(AB) San Benito County
(AC) San Bernardino County
(AD) San Joaquin County
(AE) Shasta County
(AF) Sierra County
(AG) Siskiyou County
(AH) Stanislaus County
(AI) Sutter County
(AJ) Tehama County
(AK) Trinity County
(AL) Tulare County
(AM) Tuolumne County
(AN) Yolo County
(AO) Yuba County
(c) This section shall be operative during such time as subdivision (a) of Section 11450.018 is operative.
(Added by Stats. 1995, Ch. 307, Sec. 10. Effective August 3, 1995. Section conditionally operative as provided in subd. (c).)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11453.01.

11453.01. (a) Commencing July 1, 2022, and each year thereafter, the maximum aid payment set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 11450 shall be adjusted annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living, and these adjustments shall become effective October 1 of each year. The annual cost-of-living adjustment shall be based on the increase in the California Necessities Index for the year in which the adjustment becomes effective.
(b) Notwithstanding subdivision (a), unless otherwise specified in the annual Budget Act, the cost-of-living adjustment pursuant to subdivision (a), commencing on or after July 1, 2022, and for each year thereafter, shall be 0 percent.
(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 35, Sec. 27. (AB 1811) Effective June 27, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11453.2.

11453.2. A county shall issue vouchers or vendor payments for at least rent and utilities payments, for any assistance unit in which any parent or caretaker relative has been subject to sanction of a consecutive period of not less than three months. Vouchers or vendor payments shall continue until the parent or caretaker relative is no longer subject to the sanction.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 270, Sec. 143. Effective August 11, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998, by Sec. 183 of Ch. 270.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11454.

11454. (a) A parent or caretaker relative shall not be eligible for aid under this chapter when the parent or caretaker relative has received aid under this chapter or from any state under the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Part A (commencing with Section 401) of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.)) for a cumulative total of 48 months.
(b) (1) Except as otherwise specified in subdivision (c), Section 11454.5, or other law, all months of aid received under this chapter from January 1, 1998, to the operative date of this section, inclusive, shall be applied to the 48-month time limit described in subdivision (a).
(2) All months of aid received from January 1, 1998, to the operative date of this section, inclusive, in any state pursuant to the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Part A (commencing with Section 401) of Title IV of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. Sec. 601 et seq.)), shall be applied to the 48-month time limit described in subdivision (a).
(c) Subdivision (a) and paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) shall not be applicable when all parents or caretaker relatives of the aided child who are living in the home of the child meet any of the following requirements:
(1) They are 60 years of age or older.
(2) They meet one of the conditions specified in paragraph (4) or (5) of subdivision (b) of Section 11320.3.
(3) They are not included in the assistance unit.
(4) They are receiving benefits under Section 12200 or 12300, State Disability Insurance benefits or Workers’ Compensation Temporary Disability Insurance, if the disability significantly impairs the recipient’s ability to be regularly employed or participate in welfare-to-work activities.
(5) They are incapable of maintaining employment or participating in welfare-to-work activities, as determined by the county, based on the assessment of the individual and the individual has a history of participation and full cooperation in welfare-to-work activities.
(d) This section shall become inoperative on May 1, 2022, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement Section 11454, as added by the act that added this subdivision, whichever date is later, and, as of January 1 of the following year, is repealed.
(Amended by Stats. 2020, Ch. 11, Sec. 60. (AB 79) Effective June 29, 2020. Inoperative on or after May 1, 2022, as prescribed by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1 following inoperative date.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11454.1.

11454.1. (a) County welfare departments shall provide each recipient who is subject to the 60-month time limitation described in subdivision (a) of Section 11454 with written notice describing the 60-month time limitation described in that subdivision and the process by which recipients may claim exemptions from, and extensions to, the time limit.
(b) The notice described in subdivision (a) shall be provided at the time the individual applies for aid, during the recipient’s annual redetermination, and at least once after the individual has participated for a total of 54 months, and prior to the end of the 57th month, that count toward the 60-month time limit.
(c) The notice described in this section shall include, but shall not be limited to, the following:
(1) The number of remaining months the adult recipient may be eligible to receive aid.
(2) The manner in which the recipient may dispute the number of months counted toward the 60-month time limit.
(d) This section shall become operative on May 1, 2022, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement this section, whichever is later.
(Added by Stats. 2020, Ch. 11, Sec. 62. (AB 79) Effective June 29, 2020. Operative on or after May 1, 2022, 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 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11454.6.

11454.6. (a) Notwithstanding Section 15200, to the extent that the exemptions from the time limits on aid specified in paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 11454 and subdivision (a) of Section 11454.5 exceed 20 percent of the number of families aided in a county, for a period as determined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services, for purposes of measuring the hardship exemption for time limits, the county shall be responsible for the amount of aid that would otherwise have been paid through federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families block grant funds pursuant to Section 11450, with respect to those persons exempt under either paragraphs (1), (2), (4), and (5) of subdivision (c) of Section 11454 or subdivision (a) of Section 11454.5 that exceed the 20 percent hardship exemption during the period determined by the United States Department of Health and Human Services and provided for in federal law.
(b) Subdivision (a) shall not apply if the statewide percentage of families aided during that period is 20 percent or less.
(c) The department may determine that a county has good cause for exceeding the 20-percent limitation provided for in subdivision (a). Under this determination, the county share may be reduced or waived by the department.
(d) It is the intent of the Legislature that the steering committee as specified in Section 10544.317 review this provision to ensure that:
(1) The state does not exceed the limit on hardship exemptions as provided in federal law.
(2) Counties are not penalized for circumstances beyond their control and that statewide flexibility for allocation of the percentages is assured.
(3) Recipients will have access to the hardship exemption, regardless of their county of origin.
(Amended by Stats. 2004, Ch. 229, Sec. 34. Effective August 16, 2004. Operative December 1, 2004, by Sec. 65 of Ch. 229. Note: See Sec. 64.6 of Ch. 229 regarding implementation.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11455.

11455. If on the first day of the month a child is eligible for aid, aid for the entire month shall be paid.
(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 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11457.

11457. (a) Money from noncustodial parents for child or spousal support with respect to whom an assignment under Section 11477 has been made shall be paid directly to the local child support agency and shall not be paid directly to the family. Absent parent support payments, when collected by or paid through any public officer or agency, shall be transmitted to the county department providing aid under this chapter until a procedure is established under subdivision (b).
(b) The Department of Child Support Services, by regulation, shall work in conjunction with the California State Association of Counties, the County Welfare Director’s Association, the Child Support Director’s Association, and other pertinent stakeholders to establish procedures not in conflict with federal law, for the collection and distribution of noncustodial parent support payments.
(c) If an amount collected as child or spousal support represents payment on the required support obligation for future months, the amount shall be applied to such future months. However, no such amounts shall be applied to future months unless amounts have been collected which fully satisfy the support obligation assigned under subdivision (a) of Section 11477 for the current months and all past months.
(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 755, Sec. 28. Effective October 12, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11458.

11458. The county may cancel, suspend or revoke aid under this chapter for cause. Upon instructions from the department, the county shall cancel, suspend or revoke aid under this chapter.
Upon request of the department, an immediate report of every suspension of aid shall be made to the department stating the reason for the suspension and showing the action of the county in approving the suspension.
(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 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11461.1.

11461.1. It is the intent of the Legislature to ensure quality care for children who are placed in foster family homes. Therefore, the State Department of Social Services is directed to work with counties, foster parent associations, representatives of the community colleges, representatives of foster youth organizations, legislative staff members, and other interested parties concerning training requirements, experience, and retention of foster parents and the capacity of foster homes.
(Amended by Stats. 2001, Ch. 745, Sec. 245. Effective October 12, 2001.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11461.5.

11461.5. (a) The department may establish a rate to supplement the basic rate specified in subdivision (a) of Section 11461 for the provision of additional shelter needs for AFDC-FC children who are placed in out-of-home care with their siblings.
(b) The department shall develop regulations for the rate specified in subdivision (a).
(c) The department shall amend the state plan to receive appropriate funding from the federal government, for implementation of this section, under Title IV-E of the federal Social Security Act, Part E (commencing with Section 670) of Subchapter 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the United States Code. The plan amendment shall be submitted within 90 days of notification that federal funds are available for the purposes of this section.
(d) Subdivisions (a) and (b) shall be implemented only if, and upon the date that, the director executes a declaration, that shall be retained by the director, stating that the director has determined that the federal government has approved the state plan amendments required by subdivision (c), and federal funding in accordance with those state plan amendments becomes available.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 663, Sec. 3. Effective January 1, 1995.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11462.03.

11462.03. (a)Notwithstanding subdivision (c) of Section 11462, the data obtained by the department pursuant to that subdivision using 1985 calendar year costs shall be updated and revised by January 1, 1994. The department may use unaudited cost data submitted by group home providers and shall submit its best estimate of what the costs would have been had fiscal audits been completed.
(b) When the department updates the 1985 calendar year costs using unaudited cost information submitted by group home providers, the department shall adjust costs by applying offsets and reasonableness adjustments to the unaudited cost data. The department shall report both adjusted and unadjusted cost data pursuant to this section and subdivision (c) of Section 11462.
(Added by Stats. 1993, Ch. 1089, Sec. 12. Effective January 1, 1994.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11462.045.

11462.045. (a) The State Department of Social Services shall establish a working group to develop recommended revisions to the current system of setting reimbursement rates for group home providers.
(b) In developing recommended revisions to the group home ratesetting system, the working group shall consider the larger context for how the system can better incorporate a spectrum of placements and services that promote positive outcomes for children and families and shall address all of the following:
(1) The provision of mental health and other critical services for children and youth.
(2) The provision of services in family-like settings.
(3) The provision of services that support families and relatives.
(4) Outcome-based evaluation or other quality improvement concepts.
(c) The working group shall include legislative policy and budget staff, stakeholders that are representative of foster youth, providers, children’s advocates, and county welfare and probation directors and staff.
(Added by Stats. 2010, Ch. 725, Sec. 19. (AB 1612) Effective October 19, 2010.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11462.2.

11462.2. (a) Notwithstanding Section 11462, when the director determines that a rate established pursuant to that section for a multistate group home facility which operates in more than two states and which provides high impact adventure programs and which first offered these programs in the State of Arizona, is less than the established national rate for the multistate group home facility, and when the director determines that the multistate group home facility is otherwise licensed but would not be available due to the operation of Section 11462, the director may at his or her discretion establish a rate comparable to the rate paid in other states.
(b) When the director establishes a rate pursuant to this section, the facility shall be subject to audits by the department, or other public or private audit agency with which the department contracts, no less often than every three years.
(Amended by Stats. 1987, Ch. 1212, Sec. 6.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11462.4.

11462.4. Notwithstanding Section 11342.610 of the Government Code, providers, as defined in Section 11466, shall be deemed small businesses and the department shall project the impact on group homes and foster family agencies of any new regulations which will affect those community care facilities.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 73. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11463.5.

11463.5. In order to receive funding on behalf of children receiving AFDC-FC, each provider, as defined in Section 11466, shall provide a full disclosure of all financial information related to its operation, including independent certification of the information provided, in a manner and format established by the department.
(Repealed and added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 77. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11465.6.

11465.6. (a) Up to five counties selected by the department, and at the discretion of the counties, may implement a countywide program for licensed family homes and relative caregivers receiving payments under this chapter under which they may receive reimbursement for the cost of licensed child care for each foster child under 13 years of age in the care of the licensed family home or the relative caregiver, during any period that any of the following apply:
(1) The foster parent or relative caregiver is working outside the home.
(2) The foster parent or relative caregiver is participating in foster care training.
(3) The foster parent or relative caregiver is fulfilling necessary foster care-related administrative duties, such as conferences and judicial reviews that are not ordinarily parental duties.
(b) A foster family home shall only receive a reimbursement for child care that is provided by a licensed provider and if an agreement has been documented in the child’s case plan.
(c) The cost for reimbursements authorized by this section shall be shared equally between the state and the county. Funds appropriated pursuant to Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 17600) of Part 5 shall not be used to meet the county match requirement under this section.
(d) The department shall, in consultation with participating counties, establish rates of child care reimbursement under this section.
(e) Of the five counties to be selected, the department shall select, at minimum, one large county, one medium county, and one small county, based on population size if a county from each category submits a written expression of its desire to participate. In addition, the department shall give priority to any county that meets both of the following criteria:
(1) The county has experienced a net loss in the total number of licensed foster family homes.
(2) The county has demonstrated a deficit in the number of licensed foster family beds for the county’s population of foster children requiring out-of-home placement.
(f) Each participating county shall report to the department on an annual basis. The information to be reported to the department shall be determined by the department in consultation with the County Welfare Director’s Association. At a minimum, the annual report shall include the number of foster parents claiming a child care reimbursement, the number of children served under this section, and an analysis of the impact of the child care reimbursement on the recruitment and retention of licensed foster home providers. The department shall provide the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature with a report of the use of child care pursuant to this section on or before June 30, 2003.
(g) The department may issue emergency regulations for the purpose of implementing this section.
(Added by Stats. 2000, Ch. 108, Sec. 43. Effective July 10, 2000.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.

11466. For purposes of this section to Section 11469.3, inclusive, the following definitions apply:
(a) “Provider” shall mean a group home, short-term residential therapeutic program, a foster family agency, and similar foster care business entities.
(b) “Audit determination” has the same meaning as “audit finding.”
(c) “Financial audit” means an audit conducted by a qualified, independent certified public accountant with an audit designation engaged by the provider and submitted to the department for review.
(d) “Fiscal audit” means an audit conducted by the department pursuant to Part 200 (commencing with Section 200.0) of Chapter II of Subtitle A of Title 2 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as implemented by the United States Department of Health and Human Services in Part 75 (commencing with Section 75.1) of Subchapter A of Subtitle A of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations, including uniform administrative requirements, cost principles, and audit requirements, as specifically implemented in Section 75.106 of Title 45 of the Code of Federal Regulations.
(e) “Performance audit” means an audit conducted by the department to assess provider compliance with performance standards and outcome measures as set forth in Sections 11469, 11469.1, 11469.2, and 11469.3.
(f) (1) “Program audit” means an audit conducted by the department of ongoing provider programs to determine whether the program is providing the level of services and maintaining the documentation to support the paid rate.
(2) For group home providers that have been granted an extension of their rate classification level pursuant to subdivision (d) or (e) of Section 11462.04, “program audit” means an audit to determine whether the group home is providing the level of services to support the paid rate classification level.
(Amended by Stats. 2019, Ch. 27, Sec. 69. (SB 80) Effective June 27, 2019.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.25.

11466.25. Interest begins to accrue on a provider overpayment or penalty on the date of the issuance of the penalty, the date of issuance of the final audit report, or the date of the issuance of a management decision letter in accordance with Section 11466.21, or the date that a provider self-reports an overpayment.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 612, Sec. 108. (AB 1997) Effective January 1, 2017.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.3.

11466.3. (a) The department shall offer a voluntary repayment agreement procedure to providers that owe a sustained overpayment. A provider may enter into a voluntary repayment agreement with the department to repay a sustained overpayment. The voluntary repayment agreement shall, at a minimum, meet the requirements developed pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.22.
(b) The department shall charge simple interest on the voluntary repayment agreement in accordance with paragraph (3) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.22.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 773, Sec. 95. (AB 403) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.31.

11466.31. (a) When it has been determined that a provider participating in the AFDC-FC program owes an overpayment that is due and payable, the department may implement involuntary offset collection procedures to collect sustained overpayments from a provider if the provider does not enter into a voluntary repayment agreement with the department or the provider has three outstanding payments on a voluntary repayment agreement before the overpayment is repaid.
(b) The minimum monthly overpayment offset amount from monthly rate reimbursements shall be determined using the involuntary collection procedures developed pursuant to paragraph (4) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.22. Overpayments shall be offset against current monthly rate reimbursement payments due and payable to a provider under this chapter.
(c) Failure to repay an overpayment shall be grounds for termination of the provider’s rate and shall result in a referral to the department’s Community Care Licensing Division for license revocation.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 612, Sec. 109. (AB 1997) Effective January 1, 2017.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.32.

11466.32. (a) If a provider that owes a sustained overpayment pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 11466.22 does not enter into a voluntary repayment agreement with the department, or the provider has three outstanding payments on a voluntary repayment agreement before the overpayment is repaid, in addition to the monthly overpayment offset amount, 50 percent of any increases resulting from California Necessities Index (CNI) adjustments and provider’s rate adjustments to the standard rate that are due to a provider shall be withheld until the sustained overpayment amount is collected. Once the overpayment amount is collected, the provider shall begin to prospectively receive the full amount of any California Necessities Index and rate adjustment to which it is entitled.
(b) Any provider subject to involuntary repayment of a sustained overpayment pursuant to Section 11466.31 shall be ineligible to receive any rate increase or program change or expansion, until the repayment is completed or until the host county or the primary placement county provide the department with a request for waiver of this paragraph.
(Amended by Stats. 2016, Ch. 612, Sec. 110. (AB 1997) Effective January 1, 2017.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.33.

11466.33. (a) If any amount is due and payable to the department as a result of a sustained overpayment to a provider for care and services in the AFDC-FC program, the department may file, in the office of any county clerk of any county in which the provider has real or personal property, a certificate if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) No formal hearing is requested, the provider has not submitted a voluntary repayment agreement with the first payment, and 60 days have elapsed from the notice of audit results.
(2) The provider has not submitted a voluntary repayment agreement along with the first payment, 30 days have elapsed after an adverse appeal decision by a hearing officer sustaining an overpayment, and that decision has been adopted by the department or is effective by operation of law.
(b) The certificate provided for pursuant to subdivision (a) shall contain:
(1) The amount due, owing, and unpaid, plus simple interest on the amount owing and unpaid beginning on the date the certificate is filed.
(2) A statement that the department has complied with this section prior to the filing of the certificate.
(3) A request that a lien be recorded against the provider in the amount set forth in the certificate.
(c) The county clerk immediately upon the filing of the certificate shall record the lien for the State of California against the provider in the amount set forth in the certificate. The lien may be filed in the chain of title of the property.
(d) The department shall pay the cost of the first lien, and providers shall be responsible for any subsequent liens on a sustained overpayment.
(e) For the first certificate filed by the department pursuant to this section, the county shall waive all filing fees.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 773, Sec. 98. (AB 403) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.34.

11466.34. (a) (1) At any time within 10 years of the recording of a lien pursuant to Section 11466.33, the department may bring an action, in a superior court in the county in which the lien is filed, seeking a judgment to establish the lien as a judgment lien.
(2) If a judgment is obtained pursuant to paragraph (1), the county recorder shall record the lien as a judgment lien.
(b) An abstract of a judgment obtained pursuant to subdivision (a) or a copy thereof may be recorded with the county recorder of any county. From the time of recording, the judgment shall constitute a lien upon all real or personal property of the provider in that county owned by the provider at the time, or that the provider may afterwards, but before the lien expires, acquire. The judgment lien shall continue for 10 years from the time of recording of the abstract of judgment obtained pursuant to subdivision (a), unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.
(c) The judgment lien may, within 10 years from the date of recording of the abstract of judgment or within 10 years from the date of the last extension of the lien in the manner provided in this section, be extended by recording a new abstract in the office of the county recorder of any county. From the date of that recording, the lien shall be extended for 10 years, unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.
(d) The department may release any lien imposed pursuant to this chapter, at the provider’s cost, in which case any judgment pertaining to that lien is for all purposes null and void, if all of the following conditions are met:
(1) No temporary suspension order or license revocation actions by the department’s community care licensing division is pending against a provider.
(2) A provider has made at least three timely payments on a voluntary repayment agreement.
(3) The provider submits to the department corroborative evidence that it is unable to obtain a loan from an institutional lender unless the lien is released.
(e) Execution shall issue upon a judgment obtained pursuant to this section upon request of the department in the same manner as execution may issue upon other judgments. Sale shall be held under that execution as prescribed in the Code of Civil Procedure. In all proceedings under this section, the director or his or her authorized agents may act on behalf of the state.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 773, Sec. 99. (AB 403) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.35.

11466.35. (a) Any licensee or member of a governing board of a nonprofit who has been determined to owe a sustained overpayment under this chapter, and who, subsequent to notice of the sustained overpayment, has its rate terminated, shall be ineligible to apply or receive a rate for any future program until the overpayment is repaid.
(b) A rate application shall be denied for a provider that meets either of the following conditions:
(1) A provider owing a sustained overpayment under this chapter, upon the occurrence of any additional sustained overpayment, shall be ineligible to apply or receive a rate for an existing or future program until the sustained overpayments are repaid, unless a voluntary repayment agreement is approved by the department.
(2) A provider incurring a sustained overpayment that constitutes more than 60 percent of the provider’s annual rate reimbursement shall be ineligible to apply or receive a rate for any existing or future programs until the sustained overpayments are repaid, unless a voluntary repayment agreement is approved by the department.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 773, Sec. 100. (AB 403) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.36.

11466.36. (a) The department may terminate a program rate if any of the following conditions are met:
(1) The department determines that, based upon the findings of a hearing officer, a rate application or information submitted by a provider was fraudulently submitted to the department.
(2) A provider is failing to provide services in accordance with the standards associated with its paid rate or in accordance with its program statement.
(3) A provider with an outstanding sustained overpayment incurs a second sustained overpayment, and is unable to repay the sustained overpayments.
(4) A provider has a sustained overpayment that represents 100 percent of a provider’s annual rate reimbursement.
(5) A provider has a sustained overpayment and has failed to timely submit its payments on more than three occasions in a 12-month period.
(6) For a provider operating a short-term residential therapeutic program or a community treatment facility, the program or facility is no longer accredited as required by state law.
(b) This chapter shall not be construed to affect the department’s authority under other provisions of law for collection of provider sustained overpayments.
(Amended by Stats. 2022, Ch. 50, Sec. 56. (SB 187) Effective June 30, 2022.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.5.

11466.5. The department shall collect cost data and monitor the cost of providing care and supervision, and social work services, to AFDC-FC recipients. These data shall include, but not be limited to, the costs incurred for employee wages and benefits.
(Amended by Stats. 2015, Ch. 773, Sec. 102. (AB 403) Effective January 1, 2016.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11466.6.

11466.6. A provider who disagrees with the rate determined by the department, the rate adjusted by an audit, or a determination made in a management decision letter affecting the rate may request in writing an appeal to the department. The department shall maintain, by regulation, all-county letter, or similar written directive, procedures for the departmental appeal process.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 84. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)
2023 California Code › Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC › DIVISION 9 - PUBLIC SOCIAL SERVICES › PART 3 - AID AND MEDICAL ASSISTANCE › CHAPTER 2 - California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act › ARTICLE 6 - Computation and Payment of Aid Grants › Section 11467.1.

11467.1. (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that standards be developed to address the specific needs of very young children, from birth to six years of age, experiencing the trauma of separation from their family who must be placed in out-of-home care. These standards shall provide normative guidelines differentiated by the needs specific to infants from birth to two years of age, toddlers from two years of age to four years of age, and preschool from four years of age to six years of age and shall reflect the needs of all children for a family-like setting that provides culturally appropriate nurturing, and safety.
(b) The department shall assess the needs of young children and adopt standards in consultation with interested parties that shall include the following:
(1) A representative of a public interest law firm specializing in children’s issues.
(2) A representative of an advocacy group representing children with developmental disabilities.
(3) A representative of the California Association of Children’s Homes.
(4) A representative of the Association for Minority Adolescents in Residential Care Homes.
(5) A representative of the California Association of Services for Children.
(6) A representative of the County Welfare Directors Association.
(7) A representative of the National Association of Social Workers.
(8) A developmental psychologist specializing in children in shelter care.
(9) A psychiatrist specializing in the emotional development of young children.
(10) A pediatrician.
(11) An expert in family reunification issues.
(12) A specialist in the treatment of alcohol and other drug abuse.
(13) A representative of the Child Welfare League of America.
(14) A representative of the State Department of Developmental Services.
(15) A representative of the Association of Regional Center Agencies.
(c) The department shall develop standards that include, but are not limited to, all of the following:
(1) The elements of a safe nurturing environment that support all aspects of a child’s development and provide opportunities to establish primary, trusting relationships with a carefully limited number of adults.
(2) Psychosocial needs, primary care, parental visits, developmental support, trauma recovery, appropriate discipline, and flexibility in daily activities.
(3) Guidelines for services to be provided pursuant to a case plan.
(4) To the maximum extent feasible, the requirement that significant placement changes be minimized, and that they be carefully planned and implemented.
(d) The standards shall be incorporated to the extent feasible into provider program statements required pursuant to subdivision (b) of Section 11467.
(Amended by Stats. 2017, Ch. 732, Sec. 86. (AB 404) Effective January 1, 2018.)