AB 492, as introduced, Gonzalez. CalWORKs: eligibility.
Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. Existing law requires that aid, services, or both, be granted, subject to certain requirements, to families with related children under 18 years of age, except as provided, in need of aid or services because they have been deprived of parental support or care due to specified circumstances, including the unemployment of a parent or parents.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 11250 of the Welfare and Institutions
2Code is amended to read:
Aid, services, or both shall be granted underbegin delete the this chapter, and subject to the regulations of the
4provisions ofend delete
P2 1department, to families with related children underbegin delete the age ofend delete 18
2yearsbegin insert of ageend insert, except as provided in Section 11253, in need thereof
3because they have been deprived of parental support or care due
4begin delete to:end deletebegin insert to any of the following circumstances:end insert
5(a) The death, physical or mental incapacity, or incarceration
6of a parent.
7(b) The unemployment of a parent or parents.
8(c) Continued absence of a parent from the home due to divorce,
9separation, desertion, or any other reason, except absence
10occasioned solely by reason of the performance of active duty in
11the uniformed services of the United States. “Continued absence”
12exists when the nature of the absence is such as either to interrupt
13or to terminate the parent’s functioning as a provider of
14maintenance, physical care, or guidance for the child, and the
15known or indefinite duration of the absence precludes counting
16on the parent’s performance of the function of planning for the
17present support or care of the child. If these conditions exist, the
18parent may be absent for any reason, and may have left only
19recently or
some time previously.
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