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State's high court gives OK to county's new welfare payment restrictions
"The California Supreme Court has given the green light for Alameda County to restrict general assistance welfare payments to able-bodied adults to only three months within each year."
"[T]he county is set to begin imposing the limit on Jan. 1 and that the first cut-offs will occur three months later on April 1."
"10,000 people in the county are currently receiving the assistance and that the three-month limit will apply to about 70 to 75 percent of them."
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http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/show_story.php?id=3060
"10,000 people in the county are currently receiving the assistance and that the three-month limit will apply to about 70 to 75 percent of them."
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http://www.pleasantonweekly.com/news/show_story.php?id=3060
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The statistics aren’t in yet, but it seems obvious that recent cuts in Alameda County’s General Assistance (welfare) program, as documented by reader correspondents in this issue, will push even more people out of cheap rooms and into the streets. Shelter beds are expensive to operate and not nearly numerous enough.
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http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/issue/2009-12-10/article/34255?headline=Homeless-Suffer-in-Cold-Weather
A Court of Appeal panel ruled by a 2-1 vote in San Francisco on Thursday that the county program is legal under a state law that allows counties to limit welfare payments to "employable" adults.
The panel overturned a ruling in which Alameda County Superior Court Judge David Hunter said the county had to define "employable" people as those who have a real chance of finding a job and who do not face barriers such as lack of skills or lack of language fluency.
http://www.kron4.com/News/ArticleView/tabid/298/smid/1126/ArticleID/2949/reftab/36/t/Court%20Upholds%20Alameda%20County%20Welfare%20Limits/Default.aspx