SECTIONS 10840-10842 - California Statutes

WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE

SECTION 10840-10842

10840. (a) The director and the State Director of Health Services
shall implement a comprehensive program for the simplification of
administration of the Aid to Families with Dependent Children,
Medi-Cal, and Food Stamp programs, which shall include the elements
identified in Section 10841. The director shall prepare appropriate
amendments in the state plan for these programs and waiver requests
of federal requirements that are necessary for the implementation of
this chapter.
(b) The director and the State Director of Health Services shall,
by formal order, waive the enforcement of those regulations and
standards necessary to implement the project with federal approval,
in order to implement the demonstration project.

10841. (a) The department may establish a demonstration project
that tests one or more modifications in verifications of eligibility
information to reduce paperwork and achieve program savings while
maintaining or improving program integrity.
(b) Aid payments may be made once monthly.

10842. (a) The State Department of Social Services and the State
Department of Health Services shall jointly, in consultation with the
County Welfare Directors Association, establish a consolidated
county administrative performance system that shall establish state
subventions for county administrative costs for the Aid to Families
with Dependent Children program, Medi-Cal, and the Food Stamp
Program.
(b) Subventions shall be based on actual caseload for each
program, including intake and continuing cases, experienced by each
county. Reimbursement per case shall be uniform for similar size
counties and shall be based on standards for workload performance, or
cases per worker, overhead rates, and salary levels for welfare
department personnel.
(c) Administrative standards shall be based on actual performance
in the most recent fiscal year for which appropriate data is
available.
(d) Allocation of costs among welfare programs shall, to the
extent feasible, be based on ongoing random moment studies. Sampling
rates shall be high enough to provide reasonably accurate and
statistically valid updates of prior allocation ratios.
(e) This performance system shall be implemented in each county
upon the establishment of a statewide automated welfare system.