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Board votes to prepare county systems as federal H.R.1 work requirements and Medi‑Cal asset test loom
Summary
The Board of Supervisors approved a motion directing county departments to coordinate verification, expand qualifying activities and press the state for a minimally restrictive process after county staff warned H.R.1 will subject hundreds of thousands of residents to new work or asset rules.
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors voted 4–0 on Oct. 21 to direct county agencies to prepare for new federal requirements that will expand work rules for CalFresh and Medi‑Cal and reintroduce an asset test for some beneficiaries.
Supervisor Hilda Solis, the motion’s lead author, told the board H.R.1 includes “sweeping changes to public assistance programs,” and warned the new rules could jeopardize access to Medi‑Cal for as many as 1.5 million Angelenos and require about 202,000 CalFresh recipients to meet work requirements beginning early next year. "Work requirements will do nothing but hurt those that are most vulnerable," Solis said on the…
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