Section 40675 - Processing Standards(a) Local agencies shall act on applications for Program benefits within the following timeframes: (1) When the local agency is serving its maximum caseload, the local agency shall maintain a waiting list of individuals who visit the local agency to express interest in receiving Program benefits and who are likely to be served. The local agency shall notify the applicant of her placement on the waiting list within twenty (20) calendar days after the applicant's visit to the local agency during clinic office hours to request Program benefits.(2) When the local agency is not serving its maximum caseload, the local agency shall accept applications, make eligibility determinations, notify the applicants of the decisions made and, if the applicants are to be enrolled, issue food or food instruments. All of these actions shall be accomplished within the timeframes set forth below. (A) Applicants at special nutritional risk shall be notified of their eligibility within ten (10) calendar days of their initial visit to the local agency to apply for Program benefits. Local agencies may extend this timeframe to fifteen (15) calendar days with prior written approval from the Department. Applicants at special nutritional risk shall include pregnant women eligible as Priority I participants, and migrant farmworkers and their family members who soon plan to leave the jurisdiction of the local agency.(B) All other applicants shall be notified of their eligibility within twenty (20) calendar days after their initial visit to the WIC clinic to apply for Program benefits.(b) Each local agency shall issue one or more food instruments or vouchers to the participant at the same time as the notification of certification. The food instruments shall provide benefits for the current month or the remaining portion thereof, and shall be redeemable immediately upon receipt by the participant.Cal. Code Regs. Tit. 22, § 40675
1. New section filed 8-23-89; operative 8-23-89 (Register 89, No. 38).
2. Governor Newsom issued Executive Order N-40-20 (2019 CA EO 40-20), dated March 30, 2020, which allowed the director of the State Department of Public Health to make temporary changes to certain regulations relating to the Women, Infants, and Children Program, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Note: Authority cited: Sections 311 and 312, Health and Safety Code. Reference: Sections 311, 312(d) and 312(e), Health and Safety Code.
1. New section filed 8-23-89; operative 8-23-89 (Register 89, No. 38).