CalWORKs, a pivotal program in California, ... This responsiveness is a testament to the program's commitment to serving the community and addressing the diverse needs of its beneficiaries.

Thieves draining millions off CalFresh, CalWORKs EBT cards while families wait, taxpayers pay The cards have long lacked security chips that banks began putting on their credit and debit cards in ...

When Yuba County began CalWORKs — California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids — in 1998, after changes in federal law required welfare recipients to move more quickly into work ...

Enrollment in CalWORKs – a federal program that provides cash assistance to families in need – has plummeted in San Diego over the past decade, from a peak of just over 80,000 recipients to roughly 41 ...

Established in 2014, the CalWORKs Housing Support Program is used to offer housing stability to families that are either about to experience or experiencing homelessness right now.

Both cuts would undermine CalWORKS’ effectiveness, advocates say, and contradict the governor’s stated goals of helping move families out of poverty. The family stabilization program serves ...

CalWORKs has a gross income limit, which involves deducting $450 from the earned income of each employed person in the family and then adding all remaining earned and unearned income to ...

A handful of participants in the CalWORKs program that helps families pull out of poverty, were applauded recently at a “Champions” celebration in Escondido.The event highlighted the ha… ...

PASADENA – For more than a month, 23 students in the Calworks program at Pasadena City College have had paychecks withheld as the school conducts an investigation into time card discrepancies… ...

In CalWORKs, the theft amounted ... a Ventura County mother and community college student, said it happened to her three months in a row last year. She now receives her benefits through direct ...