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Welfare in California

Index Welfare in California

Welfare in California consists of federal welfare programs—which are often at least partially administered by state and county agencies—and several independent programs, which are usually administered by the counties. [1]

69 relations: Alpine County, California, Amador County, California, Calaveras County, California, CalFresh, California Codes, California Department of Housing and Community Development, California Health Care Foundation, California Healthy Families Program, California Legislative Analyst's Office, California Office of Systems Integration, California State Auditor, California Statutes, California Watch, CalWIN, CalWORKs, Children's Health Insurance Program, Colusa County, California, Community Development Block Grant, Congressional Research Service, Earned income tax credit, Employment Development Department, Frank Merriam, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Gavin Newsom, Gerald Ford, Glenn County, California, Governor of California, HOME Investment Partnerships Program, Housing Act of 1937, Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles, Inyo County, California, Joint powers authority, Los Angeles County, California, Medi-Cal, Medi-Cal Access Program, Medicaid, Merced County, California, Modoc County, California, Mono County, California, Oakland Housing Authority, One-stop career centers, Orange County, California, PDF, Poverty threshold, President of the United States, ProQuest, Regents of the University of California, Renting, San Francisco, ..., San Francisco Board of Supervisors, San Francisco Proposition N (2002), Santa Barbara County, California, Section 8 (housing), Sierra County, California, Siskiyou County, California, Social programs in the United States, State Supplementation Program, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, Supplemental Security Income, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families, Trinity County, California, Tulare County, California, Tuolumne County, California, United States Census Bureau, University of California, Irvine, Ventura County, California, Workforce development, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act. Expand index (19 more) »

Alpine County, California

Alpine County, officially the County of Alpine, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Amador County, California

Amador County, officially the County of Amador, is a county in the U.S. state of California, in the Sierra Nevada.

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Calaveras County, California

Calaveras County, officially the County of Calaveras, is a county in the northern portion of the U.S. state, California.

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CalFresh

CalFresh is the California implementation of the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp program, which provides financial assistance for purchasing food to low-income California residents.

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California Codes

The California Codes are 29 legal codes enacted by the California State Legislature, which together form the general statutory law of California.

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California Department of Housing and Community Development

The California Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) is a department within the California Business, Consumer Services and Housing Agency that develops housing policy and building codes (i.e. the California Building Standards Code), regulates manufactured homes and mobilehome parks, and administers housing finance, economic development and community development programs.

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California Health Care Foundation

Based in Oakland, California, the California Health Care Foundation (CHCF) is an independent, nonprofit philanthropy that primarily focuses on improving access to coverage and care for low-income Californians, ensuring high-value care, and informing decisionmakers.

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California Healthy Families Program

The California Healthy Families Program (HFP) is the California implementation of the federal Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) that provides low cost insurance offering health, dental, and vision coverage to children who do not have insurance today and do not qualify for no-cost Medi-Cal.

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California Legislative Analyst's Office

The Legislative Analyst's Office (LAO), located in Sacramento, California, is a nonpartisan government agency that has provided fiscal and policy advice to the California Legislature since 1941.

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California Office of Systems Integration

The California Office of Systems Integration is an agency within the California Health and Human Services Agency that manages a portfolio of large, complex health and human services information technology projects.

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California State Auditor

The California State Auditor's Office (CSA) is a bureau of the California Little Hoover Commission created in SB 37 in 1993.

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California Statutes

California Statutes (Cal. Stats., also cited as Stats. within the state) are the acts of the California State Legislature as approved according to the California Constitution and collated by the Secretary of State of California.

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California Watch

California Watch, part of the nonprofit Center for Investigative Reporting, began producing stories in 2009.

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CalWIN

CalWIN is an online, real-time computer program that supports the administration of welfare in California.

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CalWORKs

The California Work Opportunities and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program is the California welfare implementation of the federal welfare-to-work Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program that provides cash aid and services to eligible needy California families.

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Children's Health Insurance Program

The Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) – formerly known as the State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) – is a program administered by the United States Department of Health and Human Services that provides matching funds to states for health insurance to families with children.

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Colusa County, California

Colusa County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Community Development Block Grant

The Community Development Block Grant (CDBG), one of the longest-running programs of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, funds local community development activities such as affordable housing, anti-poverty programs, and infrastructure development.

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Congressional Research Service

The Congressional Research Service (CRS), known as Congress's think tank, is a public policy research arm of the United States Congress.

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Earned income tax credit

The United States federal earned income tax credit or earned income credit (EITC or EIC) is a refundable tax credit for low- to moderate-income working individuals and couples, particularly those with children.

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Employment Development Department

The Employment Development Department (EDD) is part of the Labor and Workforce Development Agency of the executive branch of the State of California.

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Frank Merriam

Frank Finley Merriam (December 22, 1865 – April 25, 1955) was an American politician who served as the 28th governor of California from June 2, 1934 until January 2, 1939.

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

Franklin Delano Roosevelt Sr. (January 30, 1882 – April 12, 1945), often referred to by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States from 1933 until his death in 1945.

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Gavin Newsom

Gavin Christopher Newsom (born October 10, 1967) is an American businessman and politician serving as the 49th and current Lieutenant Governor of California, elected in 2010.

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Gerald Ford

Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr. (born Leslie Lynch King Jr; July 14, 1913 – December 26, 2006) was an American politician who served as the 38th President of the United States from August 1974 to January 1977.

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Glenn County, California

Glenn County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Governor of California

The Governor of California is the head of government of the U.S. state of California.

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HOME Investment Partnerships Program

The HOME Investment Partnerships Program (HOME) is a type of United States federal assistance provided by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to States in order to provide decent and affordable housing, particularly housing for low- and very low-income Americans.

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Housing Act of 1937

The Housing Act of 1937, formally the "United States Housing Act of 1937" and sometimes called the Wagner-Steagall Act, provided for subsidies to be paid from the U.S. government to local public housing agencies (LHAs) to improve living conditions for low-income families.

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Housing and Community Development Act of 1974

The Housing and Community Development Act of 1974, (12 U.S.C. 1706e), is a United States federal law that, among other provisions, amended the Housing Act of 1937 to create Section 8 housing, authorizes "Entitlement Communities Grants" to be awarded by the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, and created the National Institute of Building Sciences.

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Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles

The Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA) is a state-chartered public agency.

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Inyo County, California

Inyo County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Joint powers authority

A joint powers authority (JPA) is an entity permitted under the laws of some U.S. states, whereby two or more public authorities (e.g. local governments, or utility or transport districts), not necessarily located in the same state, may jointly exercise any power common to all of them.

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Los Angeles County, California

Los Angeles County, officially the County of Los Angeles, is the most populous county in the United States, with more than 10 million inhabitants as of 2017.

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Medi-Cal

The California Medical Assistance Program (Medi-Cal or MediCal) is California's Medicaid program serving low-income individuals, including families, seniors, persons with disabilities, children in foster care, pregnant women, and childless adults with incomes below 138% of federal poverty level.

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Medi-Cal Access Program

The Medi-Cal Access Program (MCAP), formerly known as the Access for Infants and Mothers Program (AIM), is a California policy that grants access to Medi-Cal to pregnant and uninsured (or whose coverage contains a co-pay over $500) mothers who would otherwise not qualify due to exceeding income guidelines.

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Medicaid

Medicaid in the United States is a joint federal and state program that helps with medical costs for some people with limited income and resources.

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Merced County, California

Merced County, is a county located in the northern San Joaquin Valley section of the Central Valley, in the U.S. state of California.

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Modoc County, California

Modoc County is a county in the far northeast corner of the U.S. state of California.

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Mono County, California

Mono County (MOH-noh) is a county located in the east central portion of the U.S. state of California.

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Oakland Housing Authority

The Oakland Housing Authority (OHA) is the public housing agency for the city of Oakland, California.

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One-stop career centers

One-stop career centers (or American Job Centers) are public employment offices in the United States.

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Orange County, California

Orange County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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PDF

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a file format developed in the 1990s to present documents, including text formatting and images, in a manner independent of application software, hardware, and operating systems.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit or poverty line is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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President of the United States

The President of the United States (POTUS) is the head of state and head of government of the United States of America.

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ProQuest

ProQuest LLC is an Ann Arbor, Michigan-based global information-content and technology company, founded in 1938 as University Microfilms by Eugene B. Power.

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Regents of the University of California

The Regents of the University of California is the governing board of the University of California system.

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Renting

Renting, also known as hiring or letting, is an agreement where a payment is made for the temporary use of a good, service or property owned by another.

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San Francisco

San Francisco (initials SF;, Spanish for 'Saint Francis'), officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the cultural, commercial, and financial center of Northern California.

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San Francisco Board of Supervisors

The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is the legislative body within the government of the City and County of San Francisco, California, United States.

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San Francisco Proposition N (2002)

Care Not Cash was a San Francisco ballot measure (Proposition N) approved by the voters in November 2002.

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Santa Barbara County, California

Santa Barbara County, California, officially the County of Santa Barbara, is a county located in the southern region of the U.S. state of California.

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Section 8 (housing)

Section 8 of the Housing Act of 1937, often called Section 8, as repeatedly amended, authorizes the payment of rental housing assistance to private landlords on behalf of approximately 4.8 million low-income households, as of 2008, in the United States.

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Sierra County, California

Sierra County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Siskiyou County, California

Siskiyou County is a county in the northernmost part of the U.S. state of California.

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Social programs in the United States

Social programs in the United States are welfare subsidies designed to meet needs of the American population.

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State Supplementation Program

The State Supplement Program (SSP or SSI/SSP), not to be confused with SNAP, is the state supplement to the U.S. federal Supplemental Security Income (SSI) program and provides state funded supplement benefits to SSI recipients.

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Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program

The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), formerly known as the Food Stamp Program, provides food-purchasing assistance for low- and no-income people living in the United States.

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Supplemental Security Income

Supplemental Security Income (SSI) is a United States government means-tested welfare program that provides cash assistance and health care coverage (i.e., Medicaid) to people with low-income and limited assets who are either aged 65 or older, blind, or disabled (children included).

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Temporary Assistance for Needy Families

Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) is one of the United States of America's federal assistance programs.

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Trinity County, California

Trinity County is a county in the northwestern part of the state of California.

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Tulare County, California

Tulare County is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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Tuolumne County, California

Tuolumne County, officially the County of Tuolumne, is a county in the U.S. state of California.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB; officially the Bureau of the Census, as defined in Title) is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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University of California, Irvine

The University of California, Irvine (UCI, UC Irvine, or Irvine), is a public research university located in Irvine, Orange County, California, United States, and one of the 10 campuses in the University of California (UC) system.

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Ventura County, California

Ventura County is a county in the southern part of the U.S. state of California.

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Workforce development

Workforce development, an American approach to economic development, attempts to enhance a region's economic stability and prosperity by focusing on people rather than businesses.

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Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act

The Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) is a United States public law that replaced the previous Workforce Investment Act of 1998 (WIA) as the primary federal workforce development legislation to bring about increased coordination among federal workforce development and related programs.

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Redirects here:

California Medical Service Program, Low Income Health Program, Medically Indigent Service Program, Statewide Automated Welfare System.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welfare_in_California

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