AB 1584, as amended, 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 beginningbegin delete Julyend deletebegin insert Januaryend insert 1 of the 2017 calendar year. The bill wouldbegin delete successively increase aid grants for specified applicants and recipients by the amount of $21 on January 1 in 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020.end deletebegin insert also require a maximum aid payment that falls below 96% of the federal poverty line as of December
31, 2016, or 100% of the federal poverty line as of December 31, 2017, to be increased to an amount that equals 96% or 100% of the federal poverty line, respectively. The bill would require the increases to be provided in addition to the required cost-of-living adjustments.end insert
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.
begin insertSection 12200.7 is added to the end insertbegin insertWelfare and
13Institutions Codeend insertbegin insert, to read:end insert
(a) Notwithstanding any other law, a maximum aid
15payment that falls below 96 percent of the federal poverty level as
16of December 31, 2016, shall be increased to an amount that equals
1796 percent of the federal poverty level.
18(b) Notwithstanding any other law, commencing January 1,
192018, a maximum aid payment that falls below 100 percent of the
20federal poverty level as of December 31, 2017, shall be increased
21to an amount that equals 100 percent of the federal poverty level.
P3 1(c) This section is not intended to result in the reduction of any
2payment that exceeds 96 percent of the federal poverty level on
3December 31, 2016, or 100 percent of the federal poverty line on
4December
31, 2017.
5(d) The increases required by this section shall be provided in
6addition to the cost-of-living adjustments required by Section
712201.
Section 12201 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
9amended to read:
(a) Except as provided in subdivision (d) or (g), the
11payment schedules set forth in Section 12200 shall be adjusted
12annually to reflect any increases or decreases in the cost of living.
13Except as provided in subdivision (e), (f),begin insert orend insert (g),begin delete or (h)end delete these
14adjustments shall become effective January 1 of each year. The
15cost-of-living adjustment shall be based on the changes in the
16California Necessities Index, which as used in this section shall
17be the weighted average of changes for food, clothing, fuel,
18utilities, rent, and transportation for low-income consumers. The
19computation
of annual adjustments in the California Necessities
20Index shall be made in accordance with the following steps:
21(1) The base period expenditure amounts for each expenditure
22category within the California Necessities Index used to compute
23the 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 |
33(2) Based on the appropriate components of the Consumer Price
34Index for All Urban Consumers, as published by the United States
35Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, the percentage
36change shall be determined for the 12-month period which ends
3712 months prior to the January in which the cost-of-living
38adjustment will take effect, for each expenditure category specified
39in paragraph (1) within the following geographical areas: Los
40Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, San
Francisco-Oakland, San Diego,
P4 1and, to the extent statistically valid information is available from
2the Bureau of Labor Statistics, additional geographical areas within
3the state which include not less than 80 percent of recipients of
4aid under this chapter.
5(3) Calculate a weighted percentage change for each of the
6expenditure categories specified in paragraph (1) using the
7applicable weighting factors for each area used by the Department
8of Industrial Relations to calculate the California Consumer Price
9Index (CCPI).
10(4) Calculate a category adjustment factor for each expenditure
11category in paragraph (1) by (1) adding 100 to the applicable
12weighted percentage change as determined in paragraph (2) and
13(2) dividing the sum by 100.
14(5) Determine the expenditure amounts for the current year by
15multiplying each expenditure amount determined for the prior year
16by the applicable category adjustment factor determined in
17paragraph (4).
18(6) Determine the overall adjustment factor by dividing (1) the
19sum of the expenditure amounts as determined in paragraph (4)
20for the current year by (2) the sum of the expenditure amounts as
21determined in paragraph (4) for the prior year.
22(b) The overall adjustment factor determined by the preceding
23computational steps shall be multiplied by the payment schedules
24established pursuant to Section 12200 as are in effect during the
25month of December preceding the calendar year in which the
26adjustments are to occur, and the product rounded to the nearest
27dollar. The
resultant amounts shall constitute the new schedules
28for the categories given under subdivisions (a), (b), (c), (d), (e),
29(f), and (g) of Section 12200, and shall be filed with the Secretary
30of State. The amount as set forth in subdivision (h) of Section
3112200 shall be adjusted annually pursuant to this section in the
32event that the secretary agrees to administer payment under that
33subdivision. The payment schedule for subdivision (i) of Section
3412200 shall be computed as specified, based on the new payment
35schedules for subdivisions (a), (b), (c), and (d) of Section 12200.
36(c) The department shall adjust any amounts of aid under this
37chapter to ensure that the minimum level required by the Social
38Security Act in order to maintain eligibility for funds under Title
39XIX of that act is met.
P5 1(d) (1) No adjustment shall be made under this section for the
21991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997, 1998, 2004, 2006,
32007, 2008, 2009, and 2010 calendar years to reflect any change
4in the cost of living. Elimination of the cost-of-living adjustment
5pursuant to this paragraph shall satisfy the requirements of Section
612201.05, and no further reduction shall be made pursuant to that
7
section.
8(2) Any cost-of-living adjustment granted under this section for
9any calendar year shall not include adjustments for any calendar
10year in which the cost-of-living adjustment was suspended pursuant
11to paragraph (1).
12(e) For the 2003 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
13section shall become effective June 1, 2003.
14(f) For the 2005 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
15section shall become effective April 1, 2005.
16(g) (1) For the 2011
to the 2016 calendar year, inclusive, no
17adjustment shall be made under this section unless otherwise
18specified by statute.
19(2) Notwithstanding paragraph (1), the pass along of federal
20benefits provided for in Section 12201.05 shall be effective on
21January 1 of each calendar year.
22(h) For the 2017 calendar year, the adjustment required by this
23section shall become effective July 1, 2017.
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