HomeMy WebLinkAboutRESOLUTIONS - 08081995 - 95-384 THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF CONTRA COSTA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA
Adopted this Order on August 8, 1995 by the following vote:
AYES: See below for votes on sections
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
SUBJECT: Standards for Administration of the RESOLUTION NO. 951 384
General Assistance Program
The Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors RESOLVES that Board of Supervisors
Resolution No. 91/606, as amended, is further amended as follows effective
September 1, 1995:
Part 1. Standards of Assistance
102. The general assistance standards of aid for applicants or recipients living alone
or with specified relatives are established by budget units consisting of the ,
following persons:
(1) The General Assistance applicant or recipient; and
(2) The following persons living with and related to the applicant or recipient
by birth, marriage, or adoption: mother, father, brother, sister, daughter,
son, grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, and nephew.
(a) The standard of General Assistance aid for each person in a budget unit
exceeding one shall be an amount equal to the multiple person budget unit
standard divided by the number of persons in the budget unit. Any budget unit
with five or more persons shall be considered as having four persons in the
budget unit.
102.1 In the event any statutory enactment or court decision prevents the County from
applying any of the provisions of section 102, to the extent that such provisions
cannot be applied, the standard of aid for each person in the budget unit shall
be the single person standard of aid reduced as follows:
a) by fifteen (15%) percent if the person lives with one other person;
b) by twenty (20%) percent if the person lives with two other persons;
C) by twenty-five (25%) percent if the person lives with three or more other
persons.
Part 5. Budget Unit and Assistance Unit Limitations on Eligibility
501. The General Assistance budget unit consists of the General Assistance
applicant or recipient and those household members who are related to him or
her by birth, marriage or adoption (mother, father, brother, sister, son, daughter,
grandmother, grandfather, aunt, uncle, niece, and nephew) except that minor
children who are receiving OASDI survivors benefits are excluded. The
assistance unit consists of those persons in the budget unit who are applying
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for General Assistance, and their legally responsible relatives (spouse for
spouse and parent for minor children).
502. The General Assistance assistance unit must meet the property and income
limits as a group in order for any member of the assistance unit to be eligible
for General Assistance.
503. If legally responsible persons receive categorical cash assistance, they are
included in the budget unit, but their property and income is excluded in
determining eligibility of the General Assistance applicant or recipient.
The vote on Part 1 . , Section 102 and Part 5 , Sections 501 ,
502 , and 503 is as follows :
AYES: Supervisors DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Bishop
NOES: Supervisors Rogers and Smith
ABSENT: None
Abstain: None
The vote on Part 1. , Section 102. 1 is as follows:
AYES: Supervisors Rogers, DeSaulnier, Torlakson and Bishop
NOES: Supervisor Smith
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
I hereby certify that this is a true and correct copy of
an action taken and entered on the minutes of the
Board of Supe ors on ft date shown.
ATTESTED:
W, BAC LOR.Clark at the Board
supeM and COwtty Adminlstrator
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By - _ ,Deputy
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