AB 1584, as introduced, Brown. Public social services: SSI/SSP.
Existing law provides for the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled (SSP), which requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with the United States Secretary of Health and Human Services to make payments to SSP recipients to supplement Supplemental Security Income (SSI) payments made available pursuant to the federal Social Security Act.
Under existing law, benefit payments under SSP are calculated by establishing the maximum level of nonexempt income and federal SSI and state SSP benefits for each category of eligible recipient. The state SSP payment is the amount required, when added to the nonexempt income and SSI benefits available to the recipient, to provide the maximum benefit payment. Existing law prohibits, for each calendar year, commencing with the 2011 calendar year, any cost-of-living adjustment from being made to the maximum benefit payment unless otherwise specified by statute, except for the pass along of any cost-of-living increase in the federal SSI benefits. Existing law continuously appropriates funds for the implementation of SSP.
This bill would reinstate the cost-of-living adjustment beginning July 1 of the 2017 calendar year. The bill would successively increase aid grants for specified applicants and recipients by the amount of $21 on January 1 in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.
By reinstating the cost-of-living adjustment and by increasing the amount of benefits paid under the SSP, this bill would make an appropriation.
Vote: 2⁄3. Appropriation: yes. Fiscal committee: yes. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 12200.16 is added to the Welfare and
2Institutions Code, to read:
Notwithstanding any other law, on the following
4dates the maximum aid payments in accordance with subdivision
5(c) of Section 12200 for an applicant or recipient who is not entitled
6to an allowance pursuant to subdivision (e) of Section 12200 shall
7be increased by twenty-one dollars ($21) per month:
8(a) January 1, 2017.
9(b) January 1, 2018.
10(c) January 1, 2019.
11(d) January 1, 2020.
Section 12201 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
13amended to read:
(a) Except as provided in subdivisionbegin delete (d),end deletebegin insert (d) or (g),end insert
15 the payment schedules set forth in Section 12200 shall be adjusted
16annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living.
17Except as provided in subdivision (e), (f),begin delete or (g),end deletebegin insert (g), or (h)end insert these
18adjustments shall become effective January 1 of each year. The
19cost-of-living adjustment shall be based on the changes in the
20California Necessities Index, which as used in this section shall
21be
the weighted average of changes for food, clothing, fuel,
22utilities, rent, and transportation for low-income consumers. The
23computation of annual adjustments in the California Necessities
24Index shall be made in accordance with the following steps:
25(1) The base period expenditure amounts for each expenditure
26category within the California Necessities Index used to compute
27the annual grant adjustment are:
|
Food |
$ 3,027 |
|
Clothing (apparel and upkeep) |
406 |
|
Fuel and other utilities |
529 |
|
Rent, residential |
4,883 |
|
Transportation |
1,757 |
|
|
|
|
Total |
$10,602 |
9(2) Based on the appropriate components of the Consumer Price
10Index for All Urban Consumers, as published by the United States
11Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage
12change shall be determined for the 12-month period which ends
1312 months prior to the January in which the cost-of-living
14adjustment will take effect, for each expenditure category specified
15in paragraph (1) within the following geographical areas: Los
16Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, San Francisco-Oakland, San Diego,
17and, to the extent statistically valid information is available from
18the Bureau of Labor
Statistics, additional geographical areas within
19the state which include not less than 80 percent of recipients of
20aid under this chapter.
21(3) Calculate a weighted percentage change for each of the
22expenditure categories specified in paragraph (1) using the
23applicable weighting factors for each area used by the Department
24of Industrial Relations to calculate the California Consumer Price
25Index (CCPI).
26(4) Calculate a category adjustment factor for each expenditure
27category in paragraph (1) by (1) adding 100 to the applicable
28weighted percentage change as determined in paragraph (2) and
29(2) dividing the sum by 100.
30(5) Determine the expenditure amounts for the current year by
31multiplying each expenditure amount determined for the prior year
32by the applicable category adjustment factor determined in
33paragraph (4).
34(6) Determine the overall adjustment factor by dividing (1) the
35sum of the expenditure amounts as determined in paragraph (4)
36for the current year by (2) the sum of the expenditure amounts as
37determined in paragraph (4) for the prior year.
38(b) The overall adjustment factor determined by the preceding
39computational steps shall be multiplied by the payment schedules
40established pursuant to Section 12200 as are in effect during the
P4 1month of December preceding the calendar year in which the
2adjustments are to occur, and the product rounded to the nearest
3dollar. The resultant amounts shall constitute the new schedules
4for the categories given under subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
5(f), and (g) of Section 12200, and shall be filed with the Secretary
6of State. The amount as set forth in subdivision (h) of Section
712200 shall be adjusted annually pursuant to this section in the
8event
that the secretary agrees to administer payment under that
9subdivision. The payment schedule for subdivision (i) of Section
1012200 shall be computed as specified, based on the new payment
11schedules for subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 12200.
12(c) The department shall adjust any amounts of aid under this
13chapter to ensure that the minimum level required by the Social
14Security Act in order to maintain eligibility for funds under Title
15XIX of that act is met.
16(d) (1) No adjustment shall be made under this section for the
171991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2006,
182007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 calendar years to reflect any change
19in the cost of living. Elimination of the cost-of-living adjustment
20pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the requirements of Section
2112201.05, and no further reduction shall be made pursuant to that
22
section.
23(2) Any cost-of-living adjustment granted under this section for
24any calendar year shall not include adjustments for any calendar
25year in which the cost-of-living adjustment was suspended pursuant
26to paragraph (1).
27(e) For the 2003 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
28section shall become effective June 1, 2003.
29(f) For the 2005 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
30section shall become effective April 1, 2005.
31(g) (1) For the 2011begin delete calendar year and each calendar year begin insert
to the 2016 calendar year, inclusive,end insert no adjustment
32thereafter,end delete
33shall be made under this section unless otherwise specified by
34statute.
35(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the pass along of federal
36benefits provided for in Section 12201.05 shall be effective on
37January 1 of each calendar year.
P5 1(h) For the 2017 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
2section shall become effective July 1, 2017.
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