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Committee approves HSA request to hire staff as state expands CalFresh eligibility for SSI recipients
Summary
The committee approved supplemental staffing requests for the Human Services Agency after HSA described a June state law change that will make many SSI recipients eligible for CalFresh; HSA estimates about 12,600 new eligible individuals in San Francisco and asked for 33 positions (11 FTE this year), citing a 40% projected caseload increase and 85% state/federal funding leverage.
The Budget & Finance Committee voted to forward a supplemental appropriation request from the Human Services Agency aimed at handling a significant policy change: state law now allows many Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients to access CalFresh benefits beginning next summer.
Trent Rohrer, executive director of HSA, told the committee that "SSI recipients beginning, this coming summer, June through August, will become eligible, for CalFresh benefits." Rohrer said San Francisco has roughly 43,000 SSI recipients and, using the…
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