California will begin enforcing expanded federal CalFresh work requirements on June 1, requiring some recipients to work 20 hours per week or average 80 hours per month. Those who do not meet the requirements will face stark reductions in food benefits. About 5.5 million people use CalFresh statewide, including more than 100,000 in Alameda County. Since 2020, California had exempted residents from the federal SNAP time-limit policy, which restricts benefits to three months in three years for people who do not meet work requirements. Under H.R. 1, California’s waiver is limited to seven counties, none in the Bay Area, and the work requirements apply nationally to more people, including those up to age 64 and parents with children 14 and older. California has also started enforcing directives that restrict eligibility for some humanitarian immigrants.
"For the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic began, California will begin enforcing new and expanded federal guidelines that require some CalFresh recipients to work 20 hours a week, or an average of 80 hours a month - with a stark reduction in food benefits for those who don't fulfill the requirements."
"And since 2020, California, like several other states, has exempted its residents from the federal government's longstanding (and contentious) "time limit" policy, which mandates that any Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) recipients who don't meet federal work requirements can only receive three months of food benefits in three years."
"But now, due to H.R. 1 - the so-called "One Big Beautiful Bill " authored by President Donald Trump's administration - California's ability to waive work requirements for the entire state has been limited to only seven counties, none of them in the Bay Area."
""The changes that go into effect on June 1 make several unprecedented changes to this policy, which was already incredibly cruel, and decades of research have shown that it's ineffectual," said Andrew Cheyne, managing director at the County Welfare Directors Association."
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