Form Cw 2184 - Instructions For Calworks 48-Month Time Limit Form (Page 2 of 2) in pdf

CALWORKS 48-MONTH TIME LIMIT

Time Limit Exceptions - “Time Extenders”

You may be able to get more cash aid after 48 months if all aided parents, stepparents, and/or caretaker relatives in the

home are in one of the following situations:

• Caring for an ill or incapacitated person living in your home, which impairs you from working or participating in

welfare-to-work activities.

• 60 years or older

• Caring for a dependent child of the court, or a child at risk of placement in foster care, which impairs you from

working or participating in welfare-to-work activities.

• Evaluated by the county and are found to be unable to maintain work or take part in welfare-to-work activities. This

exception only applies when the adult has a history of cooperating with welfare-to-work rules.

• Not in the assistance unit (AU) for any reason other than reaching the 48-month time limit.

• Disabled and receiving certain types of disability benefits and the disability impairs you from working or participating in

welfare-to-work activities. The benefits that qualify for this are: State Disability Insurance, Worker’s Compensation

Temporary Disability Insurance, In-Home Supportive Services, or State Supplementary Program benefits.

• If only one adult in the home meets an extender, you won’t be eligible for extended cash aid. Both adults must meet

one of these extenders, but each one can meet a different one.

CalWORKs 48-Month Time Limit Waiver for Extending Aid

If you are a victim of domestic abuse and the county determines that your condition or situation impairs your ability to

work or to participate in welfare-to-work activities, the county may waive the 48-month time limit, and you can get more

than 48 months of aid.

Request for Exemption or Extender

If you think you meet the rules for an exemption or extender, contact your worker. You may also contact your worker to

find out how many months of aid you used.

Choosing to Leave Cash Aid

If your family is getting only a small amount of monthly cash aid, you may choose to go off aid so that the months will not

count against your CalWORKs 48-month time limit. This will save you some months for cash aid in the future. You

should contact your worker to find out if going off aid will be helpful to you.

Diversion

There are special time limit rules for diversion. Diversion is a lump sum payment you can get instead of getting monthly

cash aid. The month that you get the diversion payment counts as one month toward the CalWORKs 48-month time

limit, unless you reapply and get cash aid during the diversion period. In that case, you may choose to have

all the months in the diversion period counted toward the 48-month time limit, or to repay the diversion payment by

reducing your monthly cash grant.

RULES FOR OTHER STATES

Other states have different time limit rules. If you got TANF aid in another state - or if you plan to move to

another state - you must contact that state to find out about its time limit requirements.

CW 2184 (8/16) REQUIRED FORM - NO SUBSTITUTES PERMITTED

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