§ 18900.6

(a) There is hereby created the SSI/SSP Cash-In Supplemental Nutrition Benefit (SNB) Program described in this section.

(b) The department shall use state funds appropriated for this program to provide nutrition benefits to continuing CalFresh households that were eligible for and receiving CalFresh benefits as of June 1, 2019, or the alternate implementation date described in subdivision (b) of Section 18900.5, but for whom the household’s monthly CalFresh benefit was reduced when a previously excluded individual or individuals were added to the household pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 18900.5.

(c) (1) The amount of nutrition benefits provided to each household will be based on a supplemental nutrition benefit table developed by the department.

(2) The benefit table described in paragraph (1) shall be issued annually based on all of the following:

(A) The projected number of households described in subdivision (b).

(B) The size of households described in subdivision (b), as determined when the previously excluded individual or individuals were added to the household pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 18900.5.

(C) The number of previously excluded individuals added to the household pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 18900.5.

(D) The total funding appropriated for purposes of this section in the annual Budget Act.

(d) The table-based nutrition benefits provided pursuant to this section shall be delivered on a monthly basis through the electronic benefits transfer system created pursuant to Section 10072, in the same manner as CalFresh benefits, and to the extent permitted by federal law shall not be considered income for any means-tested program.

(e) These supplemental nutrition benefits shall be provided to the household only as long as the household continues to receive CalFresh, and includes the individual or individuals added to the household pursuant to paragraph (2) of subdivision (c) of Section 18900.5.

(f) A household whose CalFresh benefits are restored, consistent with current law, following discontinuance for failure to provide the necessary documentation or information required to determine continuing eligibility, will also have their SNB restored, without proration, back to the original date of discontinuance of the CalFresh benefits. If a household is discontinued for any other reason and reapplies for benefits, the supplemental benefit provisions outlined in this section shall not apply.

(g) Households that are eligible for and receive SNB under this section shall not at any point be eligible for transitional nutrition benefits as created in Section 18900.7, regardless of a change in household circumstances.

(h) The department shall develop client notices for the SNB program as appropriate.

(i) Supplemental nutrition benefits authorized pursuant to this section are not entitlement benefits, and the department shall provide benefits under this section only to the extent funding for purposes of this section is appropriated in the annual Budget Act.

(j) This section shall be inoperative during any fiscal year in which funding is not appropriated in the annual Budget Act to support increased state and county administrative costs resulting from this section.

(Added by Stats. 2018, Ch. 35, Sec. 39. (AB 1811) Effective June 27, 2018. Conditionally inoperative as prescribed by its own provisions.)