Section 11265.1.

(a) In addition to the requirement for an annual redetermination of eligibility, counties shall redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a quarterly basis using prospective budgeting. Counties shall use the information reported on a recipient's quarterly report form to prospectively determine eligibility and grant amount for the following quarterly reporting period.

(b) A quarterly reporting period shall be three consecutive calendar months. The recipient shall submit one quarterly report form for each quarterly reporting period. Counties shall provide a quarterly report form to recipients at the end of the second month of the quarterly reporting period, and recipients shall return the completed quarterly report form with required verification to the county by the 11th day of the third month of the quarterly reporting period.

(c) Counties may establish staggered quarterly reporting cycles based on factors established or approved by the department, including, but not limited to, application date or case number.

(d) The quarterly report form shall be signed under penalty of perjury, and shall include only information necessary to determine CalWORKs and CalFresh eligibility and calculate the CalWORKs grant amount and CalFresh allotment, as specified by the department. The form shall be as comprehensible as possible for recipients and shall require recipients to provide the following:

(1) Information about income received during the second month of the quarterly reporting period.

(2) Information about income that the recipient anticipates receiving during the following quarterly reporting period.

(3) Any other changes to facts required to be reported, together with any changes to those facts that the recipient anticipates will occur. The recipient shall provide verification as specified by the department with the quarterly report form.

(e) A quarterly report form shall be considered complete if the following requirements, as specified by the department, are met:

(1) The form is signed no earlier than the first day of the third month of the quarterly reporting period by the persons specified by the department.

(2) All questions and items pertaining to CalWORKs and CalFresh eligibility and grant amount are answered.

(3) Verification required by the department is provided.

(f) If a recipient fails to submit a complete quarterly report form, as defined in subdivision (e), by the 11th day of the third month of the quarterly reporting period, the county shall provide the recipient with a notice that the county will terminate benefits at the end of the month. Prior to terminating benefits, the county shall attempt to make personal contact to remind the recipient that a completed report is due, or, if contact is not made, shall send a reminder notice to the recipient no later than five days prior to the end of the month. Any discontinuance notice shall be rescinded if a complete report is received by the first working day of the first month of the following quarterly reporting period.

(g) The county may determine, at any time prior to the last day of the calendar month following discontinuance for nonsubmission of a quarterly report form, that a recipient had good cause for failing to submit a complete quarterly report form, as defined in subdivision (e), by the first working day of the month following discontinuance. If the county finds a recipient had good cause, as defined by the department, it shall rescind the discontinuance notice. Good cause exists only when the recipient cannot reasonably be expected to fulfill his or her reporting responsibilities due to factors outside of the recipient's control.

(h) (1) A county shall comply with the quarterly reporting provisions of this section until the county certifies to the director that semiannual reporting has been implemented in the county.

(2) This section shall become inoperative on October 1, 2013, and, as of January 1, 2014, is repealed, unless a later enacted statute that is enacted before January 1, 2014, deletes or extends the dates on which it becomes inoperative and is repealed.

(Amended by Stats. 2011, Ch. 501, Sec. 6. Effective January 1, 2012. Inoperative October 1, 2013. Repealed as of January 1, 2014, by its own provisions. See later version, as amended by Stats. 2013, Ch. 21, which is currently operative.)