Food Stamps / CalFresh
Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California
Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.
Drug felony convictions and CalFresh, CalWORKs
No one is ineligible for either CalFresh or CalWORKs because of a prior felony drug conviction.
Keeping Benefits
CalFresh time limits; How to keep getting CalFresh benefits (certification periods); Failing to fill out or submit the Semi-Annual Report form (SAR 7); Coming in for an interview before the certification period is over; Restoration of "non-assistance" CalFresh benefits after curing the basis for termination; What happens if the household moves; Replacing CalFresh benefits if something happens to them; Non-work program penalties.
LSNC Guide to CalFresh Benefits
The LSNC CalFresh Guide provides an independent, authoritative resource for advocates in California helping low-income households get and keep their CalFresh benefits.
Overissuances: Getting Too Many Food Stamps
Underissuances: getting too few CalFresh benefits, and overissuances: getting too many CalFresh benefits.
CalFresh Work Requirements
Details about employment and training, workfare, and referrals.
LSNC Guide to CalFresh Benefits
The LSNC CalFresh Guide provides an independent, authoritative resource for advocates in California helping low-income households get and keep their CalFresh benefits.
Manual for Grandparent and Relative Caregivers
Guardianships, dependency proceedings, getting a child out of a shelter, visitation rights of grandparents, when permanent custody is necessary, adoption, foster care, public benefits, relative caregiver options chart, and school issues.
Overissuances: Getting Too Many Food Stamps
Underissuances: getting too few CalFresh benefits, and overissuances: getting too many CalFresh benefits.
Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California
Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.
Drug felony convictions and CalFresh, CalWORKs
No one is ineligible for either CalFresh or CalWORKs because of a prior felony drug conviction.
Manual for Grandparent and Relative Caregivers
Guardianships, dependency proceedings, getting a child out of a shelter, visitation rights of grandparents, when permanent custody is necessary, adoption, foster care, public benefits, relative caregiver options chart, and school issues.
Drug felony convictions and CalFresh, CalWORKs
No one is ineligible for either CalFresh or CalWORKs because of a prior felony drug conviction.
Check If You Can Get Popular Benefits in California
Interactive tool to help connect individuals to information about different state benefits available including disaster relief.
Drug felony convictions and CalFresh, CalWORKs
No one is ineligible for either CalFresh or CalWORKs because of a prior felony drug conviction.
Keeping Benefits
CalFresh time limits; How to keep getting CalFresh benefits (certification periods); Failing to fill out or submit the Semi-Annual Report form (SAR 7); Coming in for an interview before the certification period is over; Restoration of "non-assistance" CalFresh benefits after curing the basis for termination; What happens if the household moves; Replacing CalFresh benefits if something happens to them; Non-work program penalties.
LSNC Guide to CalFresh Benefits
The LSNC CalFresh Guide provides an independent, authoritative resource for advocates in California helping low-income households get and keep their CalFresh benefits.
Manual for Grandparent and Relative Caregivers
Guardianships, dependency proceedings, getting a child out of a shelter, visitation rights of grandparents, when permanent custody is necessary, adoption, foster care, public benefits, relative caregiver options chart, and school issues.
Overissuances: Getting Too Many Food Stamps
Underissuances: getting too few CalFresh benefits, and overissuances: getting too many CalFresh benefits.
CalFresh Work Requirements
Details about employment and training, workfare, and referrals.