(a) General Assistance Grant: For each eligible individual or for each eligible family of two or more persons who qualify for aid under the General Assistance Program, the maximum monthly amount of aid to which such Recipients are entitled is listed below.
MAXIMUM GENERAL ASSISTANCE GRANT AMOUNT
| $ 320 |
Number of Eligible Persons in Same Family |
| $ 574 |
| $ 647 |
| $ 771 |
| $ 877 |
| $ 984 |
| $ 1,081 |
| $ 1,179 |
| $ 1,273 |
| $ 1,367 |
(b) PAES Grant: For each eligible individual or for each eligible family of two or more persons who qualify for aid under the PAES Program, the maximum monthly amount of aid to which such Recipients are entitled is listed below.
MAXIMUM PAES GRANT AMOUNT
| $ 395 |
Number of Eligible Persons in Same Family |
2 Persons | $ 649 |
3 Persons | $ 804 |
4 Persons | $ 955 |
5 Persons | $ 1,089 |
6 Persons | $ 1,223 |
7 Persons | $ 1,343 |
8 Persons | $ 1,464 |
9 Persons | $ 1,586 |
10 Persons | $ 1,723 |
(c) CALM Grant: For each eligible individual or for each eligible family of two or more persons who qualify for aid under the CALM Program, the maximum monthly amount of aid to which such Recipients are entitled is listed below.
MAXIMUM CALM GRANT AMOUNT
| $ 395 |
Number of Eligible Persons in Same Family |
2 Persons | $ 649 |
3 Persons | $ 804 |
4 Persons | $ 955 |
5 Persons | $ 1,089 |
6 Persons | $ 1,223 |
7 Persons | $ 1,343 |
8 Persons | $ 1,464 |
9 Persons | $ 1,586 |
10 Persons | $ 1,723 |
(d) SSIP Grant: For each eligible individual or for each eligible family of two or more persons who qualify for aid under the SSIP Program, the maximum monthly amount of aid to which such Recipients are entitled is listed below.
MAXIMUM SSIP GRANT AMOUNT
| $ 395 |
Number of Eligible Persons in Same Family |
2 Persons | $ 649 |
3 Persons | $ 804 |
4 Persons | $ 955 |
5 Persons | $ 1,089 |
6 Persons | $ 1,223 |
7 Persons | $ 1,343 |
8 Persons | $ 1,464 |
9 Persons | $ 1,586 |
10 Persons | $ 1,723 |
(e) In the case of more than 10 persons in a family budget unit, an additional $14 each month shall be paid for each additional person in the family budget unit. For the purpose of this subsection (e), a family is defined as an Applicant/Recipient and his or her spouse or “domestic partner,” as defined under Section 62.2 of the Administrative Code, and/or any of the Applicant/Recipient’s children who are under age 18, living with, and applying for assistance under this Article VII
with, such Applicant/Recipient. For family budget units in which members receive cash payments from more than one federal, State, or County assistance program, except for SSI/SSP, the maximum grant amount shall be reduced dollar-for-dollar by the amount of such cash assistance. (f) The Maximum Grant Amounts listed in subsections
20.7-21(a) - (e) shall be increased by any percentage cost of living increase to the Maximum Aid Payment, and according to the same schedule, if such an increase is implemented by the State in the TANF/CalWORKs program. The automatic adjustment provisions of this subsection (f) were suspended for fiscal year 1997-98. Adjustments for subsequent fiscal years made pursuant to this subsection shall not include any adjustments for any fiscal year in which the cost of living adjustments were suspended.
(g) The Maximum Grant for which an individual or family is eligible may include transportation assistance (e.g. railway tokens or passes), in which event the cost of the transportation assistance shall not be deducted from the Maximum Grant Amounts listed above to arrive at the Maximum Cash Grant Amount which may be issued by means of in-kind assistance, vouchers, checks, two-party checks, or electronic benefit transfers. The transportation assistance shall be for the sole use of the Recipient.
(h) The maximum monthly amount of aid for which an Applicant is eligible shall be the Maximum Grant Amount for which an individual or family is eligible, prorated as of the date of application, minus any nonexempt assets and/or nonexempt personal property available to the Applicant during that calendar month, and minus the value of any prorated in-kind housing, utilities, and/or meals available or provided to the Applicant. Applicants who anticipate receiving first-time income from other sources during the month of their application for assistance under this
Article VII, shall receive the prorated maximum monthly grant amount for which they are eligible until the verified date of anticipated receipt of such other income.
(i) The maximum monthly amount of aid for which a Recipient is eligible shall be the Maximum Grant Amount to which he or she is eligible, minus any cash received from sources other than the County Adult Assistance Programs which is or will be available to the Recipient during the month for which aid is paid unless otherwise exempt, minus the fair market value of any nonexempt personal property which is or will be available to the Recipient during the month for which aid is paid, and minus the value of any in-kind housing, utilities and/or meals available or provided to the Recipient.
(j) To promote the transition of County Adult Assistance Programs Recipients to gainful employment, the Executive Director may establish an Earned Income and Asset Disregard Policy for the Recipients who are employed. The Earned Income and Asset Disregard Policy shall provide for disregarding a certain amount of gross income which a Recipient earns as wages and savings derived therefrom when determining a Recipient’s County Adult Assistance Programs eligibility and grant amount.
Recipient gross wage earnings are defined for purposes of this Section
20.7-21 as any income received by the Recipient as payment for a Recipient’s labor. This Section supersedes the provisions of Section
20.7-10, Subsections
20.7-13 (a) and (b), Subsections
20.7-21(h) and (i), and Subsections
20.7-38 (d), (e), and (f) when determining Recipient eligibility and when calculating the maximum monthly amount of aid for program participants. All other Recipient income and assets shall continue to be offset on a dollar-for-dollar basis when calculating the grant amount to which a Recipient is otherwise eligible. For Recipients subject to the Earned Income and Asset Disregard Policy, eligibility for assistance under this
Article VII shall be determined on a monthly basis and a Recipient’s grant amount shall be adjusted for gross wage earnings on the basis of retrospective budgeting in the month following the Recipient’s receipt of wage income. Verified expenses which exceed the total sum of a participant’s grant, wages, and savings in any given month create a rebuttable presumption of ineligibility for aid.
(k) Changes in grant amounts shall be made when a Recipient becomes eligible for aid in a different amount because of altered circumstances.
(l) A change in aid shall be made effective with the next regular pay date following knowledge by the worker of circumstances warranting a change in grant amount.
(As Sec. 20.57, amended by Ord. 271-81, App. 5/21/81; Ord. 253-90, App. 6/29/90; Ord. 389-90, App. 12/6/90; Ord. 125-93, App. 4/30/93; Ord. 206-94, App. 5/27/94; Ord. 419-94, App. 12/23/94; Ord. 155-95, App. 5/12/95; Ord. 196-96, App. 5/22/96; Ord. 209-97, App. 5/30/97; Ord. 152-98, App. 5/8/98; Proposition N, 11/5/2002; Ord. 193-03, File No. 030871, App. 7/25/2003; redesignated as Sec. 20.7-21 and amended by Ord. , File No. 160636, App. 8/1/2016, Eff. 8/31/2016, Oper. 1/1/2017; amended by Ord. , File No. 180002, App. 11/2/2018, Eff. 12/3/2018)
