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CATHOLIC CHARITIES OF CALIFORNIA
CalFresh Healthy Living & CalFresh Outreach Programs
Spanish Translated Outreach Materials: Student Eligibility
As you may recall, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133) temporarily changes the CalFresh student eligibility rule due to...
Mar 1, 20211 min read
CalFresh Benefit Replacement Policy Reminders
DSS letter to County Welfare Depts. reminding of the following: Requests for individual replacement must be submitted via a Replacement...
Feb 11, 20211 min read
CalFresh Extension Of Waiver : Telephonic Signature
This is to inform you that a waiver of the recording requirement for telephonic signatures (if certain criteria are met) is extended...
Feb 11, 20211 min read
IMPORTANT: COVID-19 15% Increase Income Inserts (English & Spanish)
In accordance with the Consolidated Appropriations Act, CDSS has revised the income insert to align with the 15% increase in maximum...
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Changes to Student Eligibility - "Consolidated Appropriations Act"
The Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021 (H.R. 133) temporarily changes the CalFresh student eligibility rule due to the COVID-19...
Feb 8, 20211 min read
Feb. 18th @ 1pm-2:30: P-EBT All Stakeholder Meeting
We encourage you to join this meeting if you are interested and available! This P-EBT All Stakeholder Meeting will focus on P-EBT...
Feb 3, 20211 min read


CalFresh Emergency Allotments For February 2021
Emergency Allotments will continue to be issued according to the dates below. These allotments raise each CF household’s issuance to the...
Feb 2, 20211 min read
Treatment of Pandemic Unemployment Compensation for CF eligibility
Please be aware of the policy change in the treatment of Pandemic Unemployment Compensation (PUC) extension payments for purposes of...
Jan 29, 20211 min read


Temporary Increase In CalFresh Maximum Allotments Due To COVID-19
The temporary CalFresh maximum benefit allotments for the period of January 1, 2021 through June 30, 2021 by household size are listed in...
Jan 29, 20211 min read
Cash Aid and Food Assistance Document Posted
There have been two temporary changes to the CalFresh student eligibility rule to expand eligibility to students who are eligible for...
Jan 27, 20211 min read
Updated Spanish EBT Online Materials
You can find our updated EBT Online materials attached, and on our website, at https://www.cdss.ca.gov/ebt-online. Please allow 24-48 for...
Jan 26, 20211 min read
P-EBT Update
P-EBT Extension Benefit Cards As of December 22, all P-EBT extension cards have been issued totaling over 3.4M cards. Thus far,...
Jan 5, 20212 min read
Updated EBT Online Materials
We are pleased to inform you all that EBT Online has been expanded to include Aldi stores through Instacart! This is in addition to...
Jan 4, 20211 min read
ESAP Waiver
CDSS has been authorized by the USDA to continue implementing the CalFresh Elderly Simplified Application Project (ESAP) for the period...
Jan 4, 20211 min read
DSS Cash Aid and Food Assistance Document Posted
CDSS just released guidance to County Welfare Departments on the implementation of Assembly Bill 79, amended sections 84 and 85. This...
Dec 16, 20201 min read


December 2020 Emergency Allotments
· California has requested and been approved to issue CalFresh emergency allotments for the month of December 2020. December emergency...
Nov 30, 20201 min read
CDSS Updates
Hello Everyone, There have been a couple of updates this week issued from CDSS. Please see below: Mass Replacement Waiver Approval o...
Nov 25, 20202 min read
EBT Online Update
Hello Everyone! As you all know, EBT Online has been expanded to include a number of Albertsons, Safeway, and Vons locations across...
Nov 25, 20201 min read
P-EBT Updates 11/4
CDSS has sent out a lot of updates on P-EBT in the upcoming months so please make sure to take not of all of the points below: California...
Nov 4, 20202 min read
Hot Foods Waiver Approval for Affected Counties
Hello Everyone, This update is for those who oversee the following counties in our network: Fresno, Los Angeles, Mendocino, San Diego, ...
Oct 26, 20201 min read
This program is funded by USDA SNAP, known in California as CalFresh, an equal opportunity provider.
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