So stop tossing it around like the program is a pastime or a toy. Seriously! I get that picking on the poor (who are the least likely to vote) is super easy. No one wants to be them and it scares us so we despise them. Sometimes we feel that we are successful only because we […]
Read More CALWORKS is not a political footballSome days I don’t know how to motivate clients who have no plan to leave poverty and are too scared to try.
Read More MotivationEvery thing you wanted to know about GAIN and how you already have work required for Welfare
Read More Work for WelfareAre the funds on your card? Where can you use your card for Food stamps and where can you spend the Cash Aid portion? LADPSS has a simple primer for knowing where and how to use your card. this is from their web page http://www.ladpss.org/dpss/ebt/ebt_terms.cfm EBT (Electronic Benefit Transfer) EBT is the way you will receive […]
Read More Tips for EBT card useWelfare and Welfare to Work programs are vital to the recovery of families in poverty. Welfare to Work pushes clients towards employment and provides basic education and training that clients need in order to get and keep a job that will provide enough income for their family to leave the Welfare Rolls. California Government is […]
Read More Don’t cut Welfare – Prune itLook at your EBT/ Golden State Advantage card. Read the number carefully. FOOD STAMPS / GR The very last number to the right will be the day of the month your benefits are on the card. ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ CalWORKS if the number is: Benefits will be on the card: […]
Read More EBT – When will my money be on the cardSilence will co$t you – and your family. Make noise and be counted
Read More Poor People – You Have to Speak Up!Congratulations on your employment! Your DPSS worker can help you sustain your employment AND give you credit for the hours you are working – but only if you let them know. This is the basic information you should provide IN Writing. There is an actual official form, but until you can turn that in – give […]
Read More Job info to tell your GAIN WorkerI am asked, regularly, if I am forcing homeless families to find housing, to seek shelter, to rent apartments. And, if they do not do these activities will they lose their cash aid or other entitlements. The answer is NO. I do give everyone a 90 day head start and every resource I know in […]
Read More Can you force me to be housed?LA County Child Support has a FAQ page : http://cssd.lacounty.gov/faq.htm#esc7 Application for a Child Support case :http://cssd.lacounty.gov/forms/css2101.pdf California’s Child Support Information Page :http://www.childsup.ca.gov/ Paternity FAQ: http://www.childsup.ca.gov/Resources/EstablishPaternity/EstablishingPaternityFAQs/tabid/253/Default.aspx Random thought to chew on : even if it is determined that you are not the father, CA Courts can force you to continue to pay child support if it […]
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