​​​1998 All County Welfare Director's Letters

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• ACWDL 98-01 (January 2, 1998)
  No Longer Disabled Children (NLDC): Tracking and New Aid Code 6R
• ACWDL 98-02 (January 5, 1998)
  Medi-Cal Tuberculosis (TB) Program and Corrected 1998 TB Income and Resource Standards 
• ACWDL 98-03 (January 5, 1998)
  Two new Combined Pickle and disabled Adult Child(ren) (DAC) Forms, DHS 7026 P/D (9/97) and 7027 P/D (9/97)
• ACWDL 98-04 (January 9, 1998)
  Qualified and Not Qualified Aliens: Identification and Tracking Requirements of Aliens Receiving Medi-Cal Benefits with Cash Assistance
• ACWDL 98-05 (January 9, 1998)
  Susan Walker v. Bayer Corporation Payments are Exempt from Consideration as Income and Property Under All Medi-Cal Programs Under Title XIX
• ACWDL 98-06 (January 13, 1998)
  Expansion of the Medi-Cal Children's Programs
• ACWDL 98-07 (February 1, 1998)
  Revised MC Information Notice 007 (January 1998) "Medi-Cal General Property Limitations"
• ACWDL 98-08 (February 16, 1998)
  New Form - "Period of Ineligibility for Nursing Facility Level of Care" (MC 176 PI - 9/97)
• ACWDL 98-09 (February 26, 1998)
  Additions to Language on Notices of Action Due to the Healthy Families Program
• ACWDL 98-10 (March 2, 1998)
  1998 Statewide Average Private Pay Rate (APPR) for Nursing Facility Services                                                                        
  

• ACWDL 98-11 (March 3, 1998)
  Change in the Definition of a Married Minor Child Living in the Home
• ACWDL 98-12 (March 3, 1998)
  Elimination of State-Only Funded Non-emergency Pregnancy-Related Services for Certain Aliens Pursuant to the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (Public Law (PL) 104-193); Balanced Budget Reconciliation Act of 1997 (BBA)
• ACWDL 98-13 (March 3, 1998)
  Outstationed Eligibility Worker (EW) Program Petitions and Reporting Update
• ACWDL 98-14 (March 24, 1998)
  New Federal Poverty Levels, Effective April 1, 1998
• ACWDL 98-15 (April 8, 1998)
  Update of the Two New Specified Low-Income Medicare Beneficiary (SLMB) Programs, Qualifying Individuals (AI) QI-1 and QI-2
• ACWDL 98-16 (April 9, 1998)
  Expansion of the Medi-Cal Children's Programs
• ACWDL 98-17 (May 5, 1998)
  Questions and Answers About the Change in the Definition of a Married Minor Child Living in the Home
• ACWDL 98-18 (May 8, 1998)
  Healthy Families and Medi-Cal Mail-In Application Booklet -- Advance Copy, Final Product
• ACWDL 98-19 (May 21, 1998)
  Implementation of the Application/Mail-In Process for the Medi-Cal/Healthy Families Programs
• ACWDL 98-20 (May 21, 1998)
  Disabled Widow(er)s Coordinators Lists, Address, and Report File and Tuberculosis Coordinator Lists                                      
  

•  ACWDL 98-21 (May 26, 1998)
  Treatment of Aid and Attendance Payments by the Veterans Administration to Institutionalized Veterans
• ACWDL 98-22 (June 4, 1998)
  Cooperation Determination by District Attorney (DA) in Medical support Cases
• ACWDL 98-23 (June 5, 1998)
  Errata to 98-17: Questions and Answers About the Change in the Definition of a Married Minor Child Living in the Home
• ACWDL 98-24 (May 29, 1998)
  Transitional Medi-Cal (TMC) Informational Flyer
• ACWDL 98-25 (June 25, 1998)
  Department of Mental Health Specialty Mental Health Services
• ACWDL 98-26 (June 30, 1998)
  Identifying and Reporting Other Health Coverage (OHC)
• ACWDL 98-27 (July 2, 1998)
  Healthy Families/Medi-Cal Loose-Leaf Application Forms
• ACWDL 98-28 (August 5, 1998)
  Social Security Number (SSN) Validation on Medically Needy Only Disability Cases
• ACWDL 98-29 (August 11, 1998)
  1998-1999 Family-Member Maximum Base Allocation Amount
• ACWDL 98-30 (August 11, 1998)
  Healthy Families Enrollment Information on the Medi-Cal Eligibility Data System and Health Insurance System Databases

• ACWDL 98-31 (August 11, 1998)
  Clarification of Application of Spousal Impoverishment Rules to Spouses Who are Enrolled in Programs for the All Inclusive Care of the Elderly
• ACWDL 98-32 (August 11, 1998)
  Newborn Referral Form
• ACWDL 98-33 (August 11, 1998)
  New Social Security Codes
• ACWDL 98-34 (August 20, 1998)
  Treatment of Payments to Class Members as a Result of Quilling V. Belshe' et al
• ACWDL 98-35 (August 20, 1998)
  Quilling v. Belshe' - Notice ot Class of Class Action Settlement
• ACWDL 98-36 (August 27, 1998)
  Redetermination of Benefits - Refugees
• ACWDL 98-37 (August 27, 1998)
  Clarification of Treatment of Aid and Attendance Payments by the Veterans Administration to Institutionalized Veterans
• ACWDL 98-38 (September 4, 1998)
  Restricted Accounts of CalWorks or Former CalWorks Recipients
• ACWDL 98-39 (September 8, 1998)
  Healthy Families and the Medi-Cal Program
• ACWDL 98-40 (September 11, 1998)
  Social Security Number (SSN) Validation for Aliens Applying for Medically Needy Only Disability Cases

• ACWDL 98-41 (September 29, 1998)
  Use of Med-Cal Mail-In Application Forms by County Eligibility Staff
• ACWDL 98-42 (October 2, 1998)
  Elimination of Face-To-Face Interview Requirement for Mail-In Application for Pregnant Women and Children
• ACWDL 98-43 (September 30, 1998)(PDF, 7.58MB)
  New Section 1931(b) Mandatory Coverage Group
• ACWDL 98-43E (November 11, 1998)
  Errata to 98-43: Section 1931(b)
• ACWDL 98-44 (October 14, 1998)(PDF, 6.79MB)
  Medi-Cal Tuberculosis (TB) Program
• ACWDL 98-45 (October 22, 1998)
  Paternity Opportunity Program (POP) Referrals
• ACWDL 98-46 (October 22, 1998)
  Enhanced Funding for the Property Disregard Portion of the Percent Programs
• ACWDL 98-47 (October 22, 1998)
  Qualifying Individual (QI) Interim Procedures, Notices of Action, and Aid Codes 8D and 8K
• ACWDL 98-48 (October 30, 1998)
  Recision of All County Welfare Directors Letter 97-06 (Residency of Holders of Border Crossing Cards and Temporary Visas)
• ACWDL 98-49 (November 9, 1998)
  1999 Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) Spousal Impoverishment Caps
• ACWDL 98-50 (November 10, 1998)
  Restricted Accounts of CalWorks or Former CalWorks Recipients Supersedes All County Welfare Directors Letter Number 98-38

• ACWDL 98-51 (November 11, 1998)
  Beno V. Shalala and Welch V. Anderson Payments are Exempt Retroactive Corrective Aid
• ACWDL 98-52 (November 12, 1998)
  Custodial Parents to Apply for the Healthy Families Program
• ACWDL 98-52E (December 1998)
  Errata to 98-52: Custodial Parents to Apply for the Healthy Families Program
• ACWDL 98-53 (November 12, 1998)
  Section 1931(b) Program County Training Schedule
• ACWDL 98-54 (November 13, 1998)
  Transitional Medi-Cal (TMC) Informational Pamphlet/Postcard
• ACWDL 98-55 (November 13, 1998) 
  Qualified and Not Qualified Aliens
• ACWDL 98-56 (December 2, 1998)
  Second Year of Transitional Medi-Cal (TMC) and Related Aid Codes
• ACWDL 98-57 (December 3, 1998)
  The 1999 Medicare Premiums and Supplemental Security Income Standard and parental Allocation for the Qualified Medicare Beneficiary/Specified Low Income Medicare Beneficiary (QMB/SLMB) and Other Programs
• ACWDL 98-58 (December 3, 1998)
  Use of Revised Forms SAWS 2 for Medi-Cal Only
• ACWDL 98-59 (December 14, 1998)
  January 1999 Tuberculosis (TB) Income Standard and Related Issues
• ACWDL 98-60 (December 14, 1998)(PDF, 2.79MB)
  Qualifying Individual (QI) program - Forms for the December 1, 1998 Phase 1 Implementation​
  

• ACWDL 98-61 (December 14, 1998)
  Pickle Packets of Forms and Notice, Type 51
• ACWDL 98-62 (December 14, 1998)
  January 1999 Social Security Title II and Title XVI Cost of Living Adjustments (COLA) and Related Issues
• ACWDL 98-63 (December 17, 1998)
  Security Income/State Supplementary Program (SSI/SSP) Recipients Discontinued Effective January 1999 (Lynch v. Rank) -- 503 Leads
• ACWDL 98-64 (December 17, 1998)
  Lynch V. Rank (Pickle) - Tickler System
• ACWDL 98-65 (December 22, 1998)
  Clarification of Medi-Cal'​s Treatment of Retroactive Corrective Aid Payments and Payments as a Result of Paoli V. Anderson