| |
| CalWORKS:
|
| Proposed
Cut |
#
No Longer Served (Statewide) |
General
Fund “Savings” |
Comments |
| CalWORKS
5% grant cut |
6,000
families no longer eligible, 475,000 families affected |
$44.3
million in FY ’04, $179 million in FY ‘05 |
Families
would receive an average of $35 less/month |
| CalWORKS
Cost Of Living Adjustment (COLA) suspended (July 2004) and October
2003 (retroactive) |
475,000
families affected |
$198
million, additional $127 million in 2005 |
October
COLA has been successfully challenged in court, the state is appealing.
With COLA cuts and grant cuts, families would lose an average of $80/month.
|
| Reduce
CalWORKS grant by 25% for families who have reached their time limits |
57,000
families by June 2005, will increase |
$32.9
million
|
Family
grant reduced on average by $146/month |
| Reduce
CalWORKS grant by 25% for families who are sanctioned |
40,000
families affected |
$30.2
million
|
Family
grant reduced on average by $146/month |
| Require
CalWORKS parents to participate in “core” work activities
within 60 days |
125,000
parents affected, 530 families per month will be deterred from applying
for welfare |
$100
million |
|
| Eliminate
transitional food stamps |
66,000
newly working households would lose food assistance |
$1.5
million |
This
cut would cause the state to lose $165 million in federal funding |
| Establish
car worth limit at $4,650 |
34,000
households would lose food assistance |
$191,000 |
Penalizes
families that need cars to get to work |
| Healthcare |
| Proposed
Cut |
#
No Longer Served (Statewide) |
General
Fund “Savings” |
Comments |
| Cap
enrollment in Healthy Families |
150,000
children from low income families denied health coverage in the first
year, would increase |
$56
million |
|
| Cut
provider rates by an additional 10% |
|
$623
million (FY ’04 and ’05 combined) |
|
| Child
Care |
| Proposed
Cut |
#
No Longer Served (Statewide) |
General
Fund “Savings” |
Comments |
| New
three tiered income eligibility structure |
1,500
children lose eligibility |
$9.3
million |
|
| Changes
in age eligibility—11 and 12 year olds no longer covered if
after school programs are available, no care for 13 year olds. |
18,000
children lose eligibility |
$75.5
million |
Lose
eligibility only if after school programs are available |
| Limit
Stage 3 child care to one year |
|
No
impact first year |
Working
parents who lose child care would have to go back on CalWORKS |
| New
reimbursement rate structure for providers |
95,592
children impacted |
$57.7
million |
Low
income parents will have to pay more out of pocket or will lose child
care if they cannot afford it |
| Increase
in family fees for families of over 40% median income to up to 10%
of income |
77,250
children impacted |
$22.3
million |
Low
income parents will have to pay more out of pocket or will lose child
care if they cannot afford it |
| Immigration |
| Proposed
Cut |
#
No Longer Served (Statewide) |
General
Fund “Savings” |
Comments |
| Cap enrollment in Medi-Cal for some legal immigrants |
11,000 documented immigrants on waiting list for
coverage per month, plus 525 with cancer |
See below |
|
| Deny prenatal and long term care for undocumented
infants, women and seniors |
65,000 undocumented immigrants on waiting list
per month |
$17.2 million combined with enrollment cap above. |
|
| Cap CalWORKS for legal immigrants |
Impact in future years |
none |
Additional administrative costs |
| Cap California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) |
273 families first year, then increasing |
$100,000 |
Additional administrative costs |
| Cash Assistance Program for Immigrants (CAPI) |
984 families first year, then increasing |
4,175,000 |
Additional administrative costs |
| Block grant CAP, CFAP, CalWORKS for immigrants
and Healthy Families for immigrants, replace with county “basic
safety net services” |
|
$6.6 million |
Additional administrative costs, counties likely
to reduce services or benefits to stay within the block grant levels |
Additional
Platform Issues:
Voter
Education and Registration
1) increase the registration and voting rates of our constituency
2) build the knowledge, leadership and size of our base
Legislation:
1) Help shift CalWORKS from work first to education first--sponsor of
SB1639, Education Works.
Check
here for updates from the state senate on the status of the bill.
This chart was prepared by the California Partnership,
a statewide coalition of community-based organizations that fight poverty
in California.
CalWORKS information: California Budget Project,
January, 2004 and California Legislative Analyst Office, February
2004
Food Stamps information: California Food Policy
Advocates, January, 2004
Healthcare information: Health Access, January 2004,
and California Budget Project, January 2004
Childcare information: California Legislative Analyst
Office, February 2004, California Child Care Resource and Referral
Network, January 2004
Immigrant Programs: California Legislative Analyst
Office, February 2004, California Budget Project, 20004, California
Immigrant Welfare Collaborative, March 2004
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