CA AJR35

Requests federal government to change policy allowing California to end the SNAP cash-out policy that currently makes 1.3 million SSI/SSP recipients ineligible for food assistance benefits.

California's cash-out policy, established in 1974, includes an estimated $10 monthly SNAP benefit value in SSI/SSP payments, preventing recipients from accessing CalFresh benefits separately.

SSI/SSP recipients in California would now qualify for significantly more CalFresh benefits than the $10 monthly amount incorporated in 1974, as their income threshold has dropped from 128 percent of federal poverty level in 1980 to approximately 91 percent in 2016.

Ending the cash-out policy would require measures to mitigate harm to approximately 60,000 medically needy children and mixed SSI/SSP households that currently benefit from higher CalFresh eligibility.

Directs the Assembly Chief Clerk to transmit copies to the President, Vice President, Congressional leadership, and California's federal representatives.