California Code of Regulations › Title 22 - Social Security › Division 2 - Department of Social Services-Department of Health Services › Part 2 - Health and Welfare Agency-Department of Health Services Regulations › Subdivision 6 - Preventive Medical Services › Chapter 6 - California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants and Children › Article 2 - Certification of Participants › Section 40681 - Notification of Participant Rights and Responsibilities

Current through Register 2024 Notice Reg. No. 28, July 12, 2024
(a) Local WIC agencies shall provide
						information on rights and responsibilities for Program participation to
						participants or their parents, guardian, caretakers or representative. Where a
						significant number or proportion of the population eligible to be served needs
						the information in a language other than English, the local agency shall take
						reasonable steps to provide the information on Program rights and
						responsibilities in appropriate languages to such persons, considering the
						scope of the Program and the size and concentration of such
						population.
(b) Local agencies
						shall inform all participants of the illegality of dual participation at the
						time of each certification.
(c) At
						the time of the initial certification, each participant shall receive an
						orientation to the Program, including the proper use of the food instruments,
						and shall be advised of the types of health services available, where they are
						located, and why they may be useful.
(d) At the time of each certification, the
						local agency shall inform each participant of the policy on disqualification
						for not picking up food instruments, set forth in Section
						40679(a)(3) of
						these regulations, and of the importance of regularly picking up food
						instruments.
(e) A participant who
						is to be disqualified from the Program at any time during a certification
						period, or an applicant whose application is denied, shall be advised in
						writing not less than fifteen (15) calendar days before the disqualification or
						at the time of application denial of the reasons for the disqualification or
						denial and of the right to a fair hearing, as outlined in Sections
						40703 and
						40705. Such written notification
						need not be provided to participants who will be disqualified for failure to
						pick up food instruments, as outlined in Section
						40679, and need not be provided at
						the expiration of a certification period.
(f) Each participant shall be notified not
						less than fifteen (15) calendar days before the expiration of each
						certification period that the certification is about to expire.
1. New
						  section filed 8-23-89; operative 8-23-89 (Register 89, No. 38).
2.
						  Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-40-20 (2019 CA EO 40-20), dated March
						  30, 2020, which allowed the director of the State Department of Public Health
						  to make temporary changes to certain regulations relating to the Women,
						  Infants, and Children Program, due to the COVID-19
						  pandemic.
Note: Authority cited: Sections
							 311
							 and
							 312,
							 Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections
							 311
							 and
							 312,
							 Health and Safety Code.