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California Food Assistance Program (CFAP)
California provides state-funded food assistance benefits though CFAP for qualified non-citizens who do not qualify for federal CalFresh benefits due to immigration status. Individuals receiving CFAP benefits are also subject to the ABAWD time limit rules.
If a CFAP recipient begins receiving federal CalFresh benefits during the 36-month period, ABAWD status will be reassessed at that time. The ABAWD individual’s eligibility for CalFresh will be reset and the individual ABAWD will be subject to the time limit as a recipient of federal CalFresh benefits, unless they are otherwise exempt.
When the individual becomes a recipient of federal CalFresh benefits, the ABAWD will receive a new set of three countable months, regardless of whether they lost eligibility due to reaching the ABAWD time limit as a CFAP recipient. A new individual ABAWD record of the 36-month period will be established in MEDS.
CFAP Percentage Exemptions
CFAP recipients are not eligible to received federally-funded percentage exemptions. However, individuals at risk of losing state-funded CFAP benefits due to not meeting the work requirements may receive a state-funded, CFAP specific, percentage exemption.
CFAP ABAWDs who are granted a CFAP percentage exemption are temporarily excused from satisfying the work requirement (i.e. for one month). ABAWDs excused from satisfying the work requirement under the CFAP percentage exemption remain subject to ABAWD time limit rules and must satisfy the work requirement unless become exempt.
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