Jump Start Vehicle Repair Program

Program Overview

The Jump Start Auto Repair Program provides vehicle repair services to eligible CWES participants.

All requests for vehicle repairs must go through the assigned EC.

Program Eligibility

CalWORKs recipients who are participating in a WTW activity, including participants who are employed full-time or part-time may be eligible for vehicle repairs. The vehicle they own must serve as their primary means of traveling to their WTW activity for the required number of hours. Only ONE vehicle per eligible adult in the AU may be approved. The vehicle repair must be:

• Necessary for the participant to continue along the path of self-sufficiency
• Necessary for the vehicle to remain operable, and
• For a vehicle used as the participant’s primary mode of transportation to school, work, training or any approved CalWORKs activity.

Eligible participants include:

• Mandatory CWES participants
• Participants approved for a domestic abuse exemption/waiver by a CalWORKs SW
• Exempt volunteers
• Post-aid participants

Any participant requesting auto repair while at the ECC will be directed to contact their assigned EC. ECC staff will inform the assigned EC via email that the participant is interested in the Jump Start Program. The assigned EC is responsible to process the auto repair request.

Post-Aid Participants

An eligible post-aid recipient is a former CalWORKs recipient who was terminated from cash aid and is employed full-time or part-time at the time of the PAS request. PAS are available for a maximum of 12 months after cash aid is terminated.

Telephone Requests

Eligible post-aid recipients, who do not have an assigned EC, may call (408) 758-3777 to request vehicle repairs. On a daily basis, support staff will retrieve messages and respond to messages within three days.