Download or read book Budget Brief JUNE 2005 - THE GOVERNOR'S PROPOSED CUTS TO KEY SAFETY-NET PROGRAMS WOULD - DISPROPORTIONATELY AFFECT LOW-INCOME WOMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES. written by and published by . This book was released on with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 2 CalWORKs cash assistance is modest: The current maximum payment for a family of three is $694 per month.8 This grant level is equivalent to 45.5 percent of the poverty line and is the exact amount that a family of three received in 1989-90 without adjusting for infl ation.9 A federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) block grant of $3.7 billion and a minimum of $2.8 billion in state. [...] This proposal would affect legal immigrants who have resided in the US for less than fi ve years, causing 23,750 CalWORKs recipients to lose cash assistance and services effective June 1, 2010.30 Most of the immigrants affected by this proposal would be women, and many of them would likely be domestic violence survivors.31 In part, this is because the prevalence of domestic violence is high among. [...] Moreover, California could lose more than $500 million in temporary federal ECF funds.38 Women Would Lose SSI/SSP Cash Assistance Under the Governor's Proposed Budget The Governor proposes to reduce the maximum monthly SSI/SSP grant for individual recipients from $845 to $830, for savings of $13.7 million in 2009-10 and $177.9 million in 2010-11. [...] For the past seven years, the WFC has run the Women's Policy Institute (WPI), which trains women to be agents of change for policies that impact the lives of women of all ages, their families, and their communities. [...] The CBP engages in independent fi scal and policy analysis and public education with the goal of improving public policies affecting the economic and social well-being of low- and middle-income Californians.