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Welfare and Institutions Code - WIC

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• § 10604 — In administering any funds appropriated or made available for disbursement through the counties for welfare purposes, the department shall: (a) Require as a condition for receiving such grants-in-aid,
• § 10604.5 — (a) (1) Commencing July 1, 1992, the department shall pay only those county welfare department claims for federal or state reimbursement of administration and services under this division which are fi
• § 10604.6 — (a) The department shall pay only those assistance claims for federal or state reimbursement under this division that are filed with the department within 18 months after the end of the calendar quart
• § 10605 — (a) If the director believes that a county is substantially failing to comply with any provision of this code or Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 1500) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, o
• § 10605.1 — (a) If a federal disallowance or other financial penalty is imposed on the state based on the results of the federal Children and Family Services Review pursuant to Section 1320a-2a of Title 42 of the
• § 10605.2 — If the director believes that a county probation department is substantially failing to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation pertaining to the placement activities required to be p
• § 10605.5 — (a) (1) The department, in consultation with counties and labor organizations, shall establish, no later than January 1, 2016, a process to receive voluntary disclosures from social workers, if a soci
• § 10606 — The department shall cause to be published and made available, at no cost to the public, all of its rules and regulations relating to: (a) The government of the department.
• § 10606.1 — (a) The department and county welfare departments shall have access to computer information maintained in the files of the Employment Development Department pursuant to Sections 1094 and 1095 of the U
• § 10606.2 — (a) Notwithstanding the rulemaking provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (Chapter 3.
• § 10607 — Where the department causes to be published for public distribution informational pamphlets and related materials relating to public assistance programs administered or supervised by the department, t
• § 10607.5 — (a) In order to better inform the public as to the range of social services available to aid children and their families, and to provide a concise summary of programs caseworkers may access to aid cli
• § 10608 — Copies of all laws relating to any form of public social service for which state aid is granted to counties, and over the administration of which the department has supervision, and of all bulletins a
• § 10609 — The department may act as the agent or representative of or cooperate with the federal government in any matters within the scope of the functions of the department, for the administration of federal
• § 10609.3 — (a) By January 1, 1995, the State Department of Social Services shall complete, in consultation with county Independent Living Program administrators, placement agencies, providers, advocacy groups, a
• § 10609.4 — (a) On or before July 1, 2000, the State Department of Social Services, in consultation with county and state representatives, foster youth, and advocates, shall do both of the following: (1) Develop
• § 10609.45 — (a) Subject to subdivision (b), and notwithstanding any other provision of law, services available under the Independent Living Program, established pursuant to the federal Consolidated Omnibus Budget
• § 10609.5 — (a) The department shall contract with an appropriate and qualified entity to conduct an evaluation of the adequacy of the current child welfare services budgeting methodology and make recommendations
• § 10609.6 — (a) The department, in consultation with the seven member task force specified in subdivision (b), shall develop a plan to implement the recommendations of the evaluation required by Section 10609.
• § 10609.7 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following: (1) The department has convened the Child Welfare Services Stakeholders Group for the purpose of making recommendations to redesign Califor
• § 10609.8 — On an annual basis, at the time of budget hearings, the State Department of Social Services shall provide information to the budget committees of the Legislature comparing the Governor’s proposed stat
• § 10609.9 — (a) (1) Funds designated for child welfare services outcome improvements shall be flexible and may be spent on local priorities identified in the county’s system improvement plan, including, but not l
• § 10609.95 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall provide guidance on best practices and facilitate an exchange of information and best practices among counties on an annual basis, commencing no later
• § 10609.97 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall provide guidance on best practices and facilitate an exchange of information and best practices among counties on an annual basis, commencing no later
• § 10609.98 — (a) The State Department of Social Services shall post a single page on its internet website with a list of available state resources for refugees and a link to the internet website of each county hum
• § 10610 — The department may join associations of social welfare agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of social welfare administration.
• § 10611 — All plans for the use of existing buildings or for new buildings, parts of buildings, or additions to or alterations in buildings, for any public institution under the supervision of the department or
• § 10612 — Two months prior to each annual session of the Legislature, the department shall make a full and complete report to the Governor of all its transactions during the preceding year, showing specifically
• § 10612.5 — (a) The department shall oversee the program for internet-based reporting of child abuse and neglect pursuant to Section 11166.
• § 10613 — The functions of the department may include the administration and the supervision of the administration of public social services, except health care services and medical assistance, within this stat
• § 10614 — (a) The department shall annually submit by September 10 of each year and March 1 of the following year, to the Department of Finance for its approval, all assumptions underlying all estimates related
• § 10614.5 — Upon the request of the Joint Legislative Budget Committee, the Department of Finance shall post on its Internet Web site data on monthly caseloads and expenditures for public social services programs
• § 10615 — California’s 58 counties vary greatly in their welfare problems, and therefore they should not be treated alike in the supervision of welfare programs.
• § 10616 — The department shall formulate plans for the recruitment, utilization, and training of volunteers to assist in performing services and other duties for the county public social services for the purpos
• § 10617 — In fixing rates for out-of-home care in nonmedical facilities authorized to provide care for recipients of public assistance, the department shall establish a rate plan providing a differential in rat
• § 10618 — Funding of Section 10617 is subject to the provisions of Part 1.
• § 10618.5 — (a) The county welfare department shall send any CalFresh applicant who is determined to be eligible for CalFresh benefits and who does not indicate on his or her application an interest in enrolling
• § 10618.6 — (a) (1) When a child in a foster care placement reaches his or her 14th birthday, and each year thereafter, while the child is under the jurisdiction of the juvenile court, the county welfare departme
• § 10618.7 — (a) This section shall be known, and may be cited, as the Foster Outreach and Support for Tax Education Readiness (FOSTER) Act.
• § 10618.8 — (a) Utilizing no more than ten million five hundred thousand dollars ($10,500,000) of the combined one-time funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2021 and the Budget Act of 2022 for the purposes of
• § 10618.9 — (a) The Legislature finds and declares that the procedure described in this section is sufficient to meet any applicable due process requirements for the programs described in this section.
• § 10619 — A public agency shall, in implementing programs affected by the act adding this section to the Welfare and Institutions Code, perform program functions exclusively through the use of merit civil servi
• § 10620 — The Legislature finds that over 1.
• § 10621 — Public social services for the deaf and hard of hearing shall include, but not be limited to, the following services: (a) Complete communication services through interpreter services by a professional
• § 10622 — Public social services for the deaf and hard of hearing shall be available in at least three regions throughout the state so that deaf and hard-of-hearing persons are able to secure public social serv
• § 10623 — Public agencies or private nonprofit corporations or a combination thereof in a region may provide the public social services listed in Section 10621 directly or through agreements with other public a
• § 10624 — (a) The department, with the advice of persons knowledgeable about the provision of public social services to deaf and hard-of-hearing persons, shall establish the criteria for funding public social s
• § 10625 — The department shall do all of the following: (a) Determine the number and location of regions of the state providing public social services.
• § 10626 — (a) The department shall contract with, or award grants to, public agencies or private nonprofit corporations for purposes of this chapter.
• § 10626.5 — (a) A public agency or nonprofit corporation, or a combination thereof, providing the public social services listed in Section 10621, may charge a fee to all public and private agencies when providing
• § 10629 — The State Department of Social Services shall not expend over 5 percent of the sum appropriated for this chapter for the administrative costs of this chapter.
• § 10650 — It is hereby declared that the solution and prevention of individuals and families who could otherwise be productive and self-supporting members of society from becoming or remaining public assistance
• § 10651 — The purposes of this chapter are as follows: (a) To combat poverty and reduce dependency by placing special attention and emphasis on the training, rehabilitation, and employment of present and potent
• § 10652 — The department and the State Department of Rehabilitation, acting jointly, shall select public assistance recipients who qualify under either federal or state vocational rehabilitation laws, or both,
• § 10653 — The county department shall be responsible for the initial selection of public assistance recipients who are to participate in training, vocational educational programs, or other employment preparatio
• § 10654 — The Division of Vocational Education of the State Department of Education shall have primary responsibility for the education and training of public assistance recipients.
• § 10655 — The Employment Development Department shall have primary responsibility for placement and other employment services for public assistance recipients; provided, however, that a county department may re
• § 10656 — The provisions of this chapter shall be implemented to the full extent of funds available for such purposes.
• § 107 — (a) Except as provided in subdivision (b), upon presentation of the order of his or her appointment by the CASA, and upon specific court order and consistent with the rules of evidence, any agency, ho
• § 10720 — As used in this chapter, “department” means the State Department of Health Services, and “director” means the State Director of Health Services.
• § 10721 — The director shall administer Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 14000) and Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 14200) of Part 3 of this division and any other law pertaining to the administration of h
• § 10722 — The State Department of Health Services succeeds to and is vested with the duties, purposes, responsibilities, and jurisdiction exercised by the State Department of Health or the State Department of B
• § 10723 — The State Department of Health Services shall have possession and control of all records, papers, offices, equipment, supplies, moneys, funds, appropriations, land, and other property real or personal
• § 10724 — All officers and employees of the Director of Health and the Director of Benefit Payments who on the operative date of this section are serving in the state civil service, other than as temporary empl
• § 10725 — The director may adopt regulations, orders, or standards of general application to implement, interpret, or make specific the law enforced by the department, and those regulations, orders, and standar
• § 10726 — All regulations heretofore adopted by the Director of the State Department of Benefit Payments which relate to payment, accounting, auditing and collection functions vested in the State Department of
• § 10727 — Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of the Health and Safety Code and this code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, after June 1, 1996, “children’s hospital” means any of the follow
• § 10728 — (a) Except as otherwise provided by law, for purposes of this code and the Health and Safety Code, and any regulations adopted thereunder, “University of California children’s hospital” means each of
• § 10740 — It is hereby declared that provision for health care services and medical assistance in this code is a matter of statewide concern.
• § 10741 — The department shall investigate, examine and make reports upon the public officers who are in any way responsible for the administration of public funds used for health care services and medical assi
• § 10742 — The department shall advise public officers regarding the administration of health care services and medical assistance by public agencies throughout the state, and shall supervise the administration
• § 10743 — In administering any funds appropriated or made available to the department for disbursement through the counties for welfare purposes, the department shall establish regulations, not in conflict with
• § 10743.5 — It is the intent of the Legislature that, if the department seeks a waiver for any experimental, pilot, or demonstration project in the 1995–96 fiscal year pursuant to the authority of Section 1315 of
• § 10744 — If the director considers a county director to be failing, in a substantial manner, to comply with any provision of this code or any regulation pertaining to the administration of health care services
• § 10745 — The department shall cause to be published and made available for sale to the public, at the cost of publishing, all of its rules and regulations relating to: (a) The government of the department.
• § 10746 — When the department causes to be published for public distribution informational pamphlets and related materials relating to public assistance programs administered or supervised by the department, th
• § 10747 — Copies of all laws relating to any form of public social service for which state aid is granted to counties, and over the administration of which the department has supervision, and of all bulletins a
• § 10748 — The department may act as the agent or representative of or cooperate with the federal government in any matters within the scope of the functions of the department under this division, for the admini
• § 10749 — The department may join associations of social welfare agencies having as their purpose the interchanging or supplying of information relating to the technique of social welfare administration.
• § 1075 — The Youth Authority shall, in accordance with law, appoint all officers and employees required at the institutions under this chapter, and shall fix their remuneration.
• § 10750 — The functions of the department may include the administration and the supervision of the administration of health care services and medical assistance within this state as an agent of the federal gov
• § 10751 — The department, with the cooperation of the State Department of Social Services and the Employment Development Department, shall develop a homemaker and home health aid training and employment program
• § 10752 — The department shall, by March 1, 2017, in coordination with the Department of Finance, notify the Legislature of the fiscal impact on the Medi-Cal program resulting from, and the planned reimbursemen
• § 1076 — The superintendent, assistant superintendent, supervisor, or any employee having custody of wards, of each institution of the Department of the Youth Authority, and any transportation officer of the D
• § 1077 — (a) Any psychologist employed by or who contracts with the Department of the Youth Authority to provide services to wards under the jurisdiction of the department shall be licensed to practice in this
• § 1078 — To the extent that funding is available, the department, in consultation with the State Department of State Hospitals, shall develop training in the treatment of children and adolescents for mental he
• § 108 — The Judicial Council shall report to the Legislature on the implementation of the program, and shall include recommendations on the continued funding and expansion of the program, as appropriate.
• § 10800 — Subject to the provisions of Section 11050 and Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) of Part 3, the administration of public social services in each of the several counties of the state is hereby
• § 10801 — A county director shall be appointed in each county by the board of supervisors or other agency designated by county charter, subject to either local merit system standards or to standards prescribed
• § 10802 — The county director shall, for and in behalf of the board of supervisors, have full charge of the county department and the responsibility for administering and enforcing the provisions of this code p
• § 10803 — The county director shall: (a) Serve as the executive and administrative officer of the county department.
• § 10804 — The board of supervisors in any county may contract with any other county or counties or with the department for the operation and maintenance of such public social services as are provided in one or
• § 10804.1 — The board of supervisors in any county may contract with any other county or counties or with the State Department of Health Services for the operation and maintenance of such services as are provided
• § 10805 — Each worker employed by the department or the State Department of Health Services whose responsibilities require making home visits shall be provided with an identification card, showing the name and
• § 10806 — If a dispute occurs between counties as to the responsibility for public social services for an applicant or recipient, either county may submit the dispute to the department or the State Department o
• § 10808 — Any report published by the county in written or graphic form of expenditures for public social services shall show clearly the amount and proportion of costs borne by local taxes and the amount and p
• § 10809 — The county department shall administer the public social services authorized or permitted under the applicable portions of this code in accordance with the regulations of the department and the State
• § 10810 — Subject to the approval of the department each county department is authorized to sponsor and conduct programs for the recruitment, training, and utilization of volunteers to assist county department
• § 10812 — In addition to services, as defined in Section 10053, that may be required under this division a county may provide any service permitted by federal law and for which federal participation is availabl
• § 10813.1 — Each county shall submit to the department by December 31 of each year a comprehensive plan for the financing and delivery of social services for the next fiscal year to meet the purposes of Section 1
• § 10816 — The system shall have the following goals: (a) Prompt and accurate verification of eligibility.
• § 10817 — The department shall seek advice and assistance from the State Department of Health Services and counties in the planning and implementation of the system so that efficient, effective, and equitable a
• § 10818 — The department shall submit to the Joint Legislative Budget Committee by August 1, 1984, a detailed work plan for the implementation of the statewide automated welfare system.
• § 10819 — The department may test the system in several counties prior to actual statewide implementation.
• § 10820 — To ensure statewide uniformity in program administration, the department shall do the following: (a) Develop and publish an exclusive manual of standards procedures for use by county welfare departmen
• § 10823 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to reduce or otherwise impair the authority of the State Department of Health Services under Sections 10740 and 14100.
• § 10823.1 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that representatives from the State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, the Office of Technology and Solutions Integrat
• § 10823.2 — (a) The State Department of Social Services, the State Department of Health Care Services, and the Office of Technology and Solutions Integration shall develop, in consultation with the County Welfare
• § 10823.3 — (a) The development of the SAWS enrollment and eligibility functionality, case management systems, ancillary services, public portals, and mobile applications shall, to the extent possible within the
• § 10823.5 — The State Department of Social Services shall pay the county share of Merced County’s Merced Automated Global Information Control (MAGIC) application maintenance costs until September 30, 1998, or unt
• § 10823.6 — (a) It is the intent of the Legislature that health and human services programs shall leverage telephonic signature technology to enhance the ability for county human services customers and staff to c
• § 10824 — (a) The counties not participating in the Interim Statewide Automated Welfare System Consortium or the Los Angeles Eligibility, Automated Determination, Evaluation, and Reporting Consortium shall coll
• § 10824.5 — (a) Any single state automated welfare system implemented pursuant to this chapter shall include a notification to inform the caseworker of a public assistance program applicant or recipient of the fo
• § 10825 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law relating to the method of payment of aid under this part, a county may develop a payment system which, to the extent feasible, spreads the issuance of public
• § 10826 — Upon election by a county to utilize the aid payment method provided by this chapter, the county shall submit a plan to the department for approval.
• § 10827 — To the extent permitted by federal law and notwithstanding Sections 11006.
• § 10831 — (a) The department shall implement and maintain nonbiometric identity verification methods in the CalWORKs program.
• § 10835 — The State Department of Social Services shall develop and implement an electronic visit verification system (EVV system) for the In-Home Supportive Services program, pursuant to this chapter.
• § 10836 — In developing and implementing the EVV system, the department shall adhere to all of the following general principles: (a) The EVV system shall be developed and implemented in a manner and timeframe t
• § 10840 — (a) The director and the Director of Health Care Services shall implement a comprehensive program for the simplification of administration of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children, Medi-Cal, and
• § 10841 — (a) The department may establish a demonstration project that tests one or more modifications in verifications of eligibility information to reduce paperwork and achieve program savings while maintain
• § 10842 — (a) The State Department of Social Services and the State Department of Health Care Services shall jointly, in consultation with the County Welfare Directors Association, establish a consolidated coun
• § 10850 — (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, all applications and records concerning any individual made or kept by a public officer or agency in connection with the administration of this code r
• § 10850.1 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, for purposes of Section 10850, the activities of a multidisciplinary personnel team engaged in the prevention, identification, management, or treatment
• § 10850.2 — Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10850, factual information relating to eligibility provided solely by the public assistance recipient contained in applications and records made or kept by an
• § 10850.3 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county welfare department may disclose confidential information concerning a public social services applicant or recipient to any law enf
• § 10850.31 — (a) For the CalWORKs program and CalFresh only, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the address, social security number, and, if available, photograph of any applicant or recipient shall be ma
• § 10850.4 — (a) Within five business days of learning that a child fatality has occurred in the county and that there is a reasonable suspicion that the fatality was caused by abuse or neglect, the custodian of r
• § 10850.45 — (a) Within 10 business days of learning that a child near fatality that has been determined to have been caused by abuse or neglect, as described in paragraph (4) of subdivision (l), has occurred in t
• § 10850.5 — A county welfare department may, without the need to provide written documentation that consent has been obtained from a client, provide information to a housing authority created pursuant to Part 2 (
• § 10850.6 — Notwithstanding Section 10850, the State Department of Social Services shall provide the State Department of Developmental Services with CalWORKs and CalFresh eligibility and enrollment data for consu
• § 10850.7 — (a) Notwithstanding the provisions of Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county welfare department may disclose confidential information concerning a public social services applicant or recipi
• § 10850.8 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 10850, the State Department of Social Services shall provide the Franchise Tax Board with information necessary to verify foster care status for the sole purpose of determi
• § 10850.9 — (a) (1) Notwithstanding Section 10850, an authorized employee of a county social services department may disclose the name, residential address, telephone number, and email address of elderly or disab
• § 10851 — (a) Each county shall establish and maintain a case record for each public social services case and shall retain the record for a period of three years.
• § 10851.5 — (a) Notwithstanding Section 10851, each county shall retain all records that are necessary to determine the number of months each adult recipient has received aid subject to the time limits provided i
• § 10852 — All persons who are subject to investigation or supervision by the department, or who are connected with any institution subject to such investigation or supervision, or who are in any way responsible
• § 10853 — In order to secure accuracy, uniformity, and completeness in such statistics and information, the department, by regulation, may prescribe forms of report and records to be kept by all persons, associ
• § 109 — (a) Except as provided in subdivisions (b) and (c), nothing in this chapter permits a person acting as a CASA to participate or appear in criminal proceedings or in proceedings to declare a person a w
• § 10900 — The department shall, within the limits of funds made available, provide welfare personnel training courses and services, including in-service training, educational leaves or stipends, traineeships, i
• § 10905 — If, when, and during such times as the federal government allots money to this state for training grants for public social services personnel, pursuant to Title VII of the Federal Social Security Act,
• § 10906 — Employees of the State Department of Social Services or the State Department of Health Services who are engaged in the administration of public social services are authorized (1) to attend courses of
• § 10907 — The board of supervisors of any county may grant to any permanent employee of the county department a leave of absence with pay to attend an institution of learning for the purpose of improving his sk
• § 10908 — Any officers and employees of the Department of Social Welfare performing a function on January 1, 1970, that is transferred to the State Personnel Board, shall, pursuant to Section 19370 of the Gover
• § 10909 — All regulations prior to January 1, 1970, adopted by the State Department of Social Welfare under Welfare and Institutions Code Section 10901 shall remain in effect and shall be enforceable by the Sta
• § 10950 — (a) If any applicant for or recipient of public social services is dissatisfied with any action of the county department relating to his or her application for or receipt of public social services, if
• § 10951 — (a) (1) A person is not entitled to a hearing pursuant to this chapter unless he or she files his or her request for the same within 90 days after the order or action complained of.
• § 10951.5 — (a) For a beneficiary of a Medi-Cal managed care plan who meets the criteria for an expedited resolution of an appeal as set forth in subdivision (c) of Section 14197.
• § 10952 — (a) The department shall set the hearing to commence within 30 working days after the request is filed, and, at least 10 days prior to the hearing, shall give all parties concerned written notice of t
• § 10952.5 — (a) If regulations require a public or private agency to write a position statement concerning the issues in question in a fair hearing, or if the public or private agency chooses to develop that stat
• § 10953 — A hearing under this chapter shall be conducted by administrative law judges employed by the department, unless the director orders that it shall be conducted by himself or herself.
• § 10953.5 — (a) The director has authority to appoint the department’s administrative law judges as provided in Section 10555.
• § 10954 — The director or administrative law judge conducting the hearing, shall have all of the powers and authority conferred upon the head of a department in Article 2 (commencing with Section 11180) of Chap
• § 10955 — The hearing shall be conducted in an impartial and informal manner in order to encourage free and open discussion by participants.
• § 10956 — The proceedings at the hearing shall be reported by a phonographic reporter or otherwise perpetuated by mechanical, electronic, or other means capable of reproduction or transcription.
• § 10957 — The person conducting the hearing, upon good cause shown, may continue the hearing for a period of not to exceed 30 days.
• § 10958 — If the hearing is conducted by an administrative law judge, he or she shall prepare a fair, impartial, and independent proposed decision, in writing and in such format that it may be adopted as the di
• § 10958.1 — The issues at the hearing shall be limited to those issues which are reasonably related to the request for hearing or other issues identified by either party which they have mutually agreed, prior to
• § 10959 — (a) After an administrative law judge has held a hearing and issued a proposed decision, within 30 days after the department has received a copy of the administrative law judge’s proposed decision, or
• § 10960 — (a) Within 30 days after receiving the decision of the director, which is the proposed decision of an administrative law judge adopted by the director as final, a final decision rendered by an adminis
• § 10961 — The decision of the director need not specify the amount of the award to be paid unless the amount of the award is an issue.
• § 10962 — The applicant, recipient, respondent, or the affected county, within one year after receiving notice of the department’s final decision, may file a petition with the superior court, under the provisio
• § 10963 — The county director shall comply with and execute every decision of the director rendered pursuant to this chapter.
• § 10964 — The department shall compile and distribute to each county department a current digest of decisions, properly indexed, rendered under this chapter, and each such digest shall be open to public inspect
• § 10965 — Nothing in this chapter shall prevent the filing of the request for a hearing by the legal representative, or, if there is no authorized legal representative, by an heir of a deceased applicant or rec
• § 10966 — (a) In addition to any other delegation powers granted to the director under law, the director may delegate his or her powers to adopt final decisions under this chapter to all administrative law judg
• § 10967 — At the time of the hearing the recipient has a right to raise the adequacy of the county’s notice of action as an issue.
• § 10980 — (a) Any person who, willfully and knowingly, with the intent to deceive, makes a false statement or representation or knowingly fails to disclose a material fact in order to obtain aid under the provi
• § 10985 — (a) Each city, county, or city and county, that operates a jail, shall report twice each month to the department the name, known aliases, birth date, social security number, and expected released date
• § 11 — The present tense includes the past and future tenses, and the future tense includes the present.
• § 110 — Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as limiting the right of an Indian tribe or Indian organization to establish or operate CASA programs independent of state funding or the discretion of the c
• § 11000 — The provisions of law relating to a public assistance program shall be fairly and equitably construed to effect the stated objects and purposes of the program.
• § 11001 — No person receiving aid under a public assistance program shall be considered a pauper or an indigent by reason thereof, and no warrant drawn in payment of the aid given shall contain any reference to
• § 11002 — All aid given under a public assistance program shall be absolutely inalienable by any assignment, sale, or otherwise.
• § 11003 — If the United States Department of Health, Education, and Welfare issues a formal ruling that any section of this code relating to public assistance cannot be given effect without causing this state’s
• § 11004 — The provisions of this code relative to public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to the counties shall be administered fairly to the end that all persons who are eligible and appl
• § 11004.1 — (a) In addition to Section 11004, this section shall apply to the CalWORKs program.
• § 11005 — Any special need allowance for mileage and for the expenses of the operation and maintenance of an automobile shall be fixed to operate in a uniform manner throughout the state by the department.
• § 11005.5 — All money paid to a recipient or recipient group as aid is intended to help the recipient meet his individual needs or, in the case of a recipient group, the needs of the recipient group, and is not f
• § 11006 — Except as basic needs are provided pursuant to a life care agreement governed by Chapter 10 (commencing with Section 1770) of Division 2 of the Health and Safety Code, to the extent permitted by feder
• § 11006.1 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each grant of aid under Chapter 5 (commencing with Section 13000) shall be increased in the amount of two dollars ($2), as a basic need of the recipient.
• § 11006.2 — (a) The department may provide for the delivery of public assistance payments at any time during the month.
• § 11006.4 — Notwithstanding any other provision of law, when payment of aid under Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 11200) of this part is made by mail, the envelope shall bear on its face: (a) A statement that
• § 11006.5 — This section shall be applicable only to those aid recipients under Chapter 3 (commencing with Section 12000) and Chapter 4 (commencing with Section 12500) of this part.
• § 11006.6 — (a) The department may establish and operate a central benefit issuance system in one or more counties whereby grants in aid paid pursuant to this part or any other program administered by the departm
• § 11006.9 — It is a cause for revocation of a permit or license by the department or the State Department of Health Services for any person, association, or corporation that maintains, conducts, or, as manager or
• § 11007 — Aid granted to a recipient of public assistance shall not constitute a lien upon any property of the recipient.
• § 11008 — (a) In order that recipients of public assistance may become self-supporting and productive members of their communities, it is essential that they be permitted to earn money without a proportionate d
• § 11008.1 — To the extent permitted by federal law, income, including but not limited to seven dollars and fifty cents ($7.
• § 11008.10 — To the extent permitted by federal law the value of any loan or grant to any undergraduate student made or insured under any program administered by the State Scholarship and Loan Commission or a coll
• § 11008.11 — To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipends, meals, transportation, or other income received by a senior companion pursuant to Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 9520) of Division 8.
• § 11008.12 — To the extent permitted by federal law, any stipend, meals, transportation, or other income received by a foster grandparent pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 9540) of Division 8.
• § 11008.13 — To the extent permitted by federal law and consistent with other provisions of this chapter, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid under this division for a person who is not a citizen or n
• § 11008.135 — (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in determining the eligibility and amount of aid for a person who is not a citizen or national of the United States under this division, the income and
• § 11008.14 — (a) The income of the natural or adoptive parent, the spouse of the natural or adoptive parent, and the sibling of an eligible child unless the sibling is not included in the number of needy persons u
• § 11008.15 — Notwithstanding Sections 11008.
• § 11008.17 — (a) To the extent required by federal law, amounts paid pursuant to any federal law enacted in 1988 to provide reparation payments to redress the injustice done to United States citizens and residents
• § 11008.18 — The department shall implement the state option in Section 402(a)(36) of the federal Social Security Act (42 U.