Conference Committee Completed Action on Human Service Issues

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Conference Committee Completed Action on Human Service Issues
06/16/2009

The conference committee has just completed action on human service actions. The committee rejected almost all the Governor's proposals but did make more than $300 million in cuts. The big action was relaxing welfare to work activities for 2 years for families with small children.

Committee approved the following items:

Reduce SSI and CAPI by $5 for individuals

Reduce county Single Allocation Fund by $175 million by exempting families from welfare to work requirement if they have children under age 2; exempt families with two or more children under age 6; and reduce license exempt rates by 20% for a second child.

Approved proposal to expand subsidized employment and other services by drawing down ARRA funds.

Committee rejected the following:

Eliminating Safety Net
Capping Child-Only CalWORKs at 60 Months
Self sufficiency Reviews for families in sanction status.
Reducing CalWORKs Grants by 6%
Eliminating CAPI
Eliminating CFAP
Eliminating CalWORKs and SSP COLAs

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