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Counts and Status of California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) Applications

Metadata Updated: December 23, 2025

This report includes data on the number of applications requested or restored and cases added during the month. This dataset is a selected subset of the entire report, available on the California Department of Social Services, Research and Data Reports (RADR) website at http://www.cdss.ca.gov/research/. CalWORKs is a welfare program that gives cash aid and services to eligible needy California families. The program serves all 58 counties in the state and is operated locally by county welfare departments. If a family has little or no cash and needs housing, food, utilities, clothing or medical care, they may be eligible to receive immediate short-term help. Families that apply and qualify for ongoing assistance receive benefits each month to help pay for housing, food and other necessary expenses. Monthly CalWORKs data is collected from the counties through submission of the CA 237CW CalWORKs Cash Grant Movement Report, which is used to report statistical information on CalWORKs caseload movement for Two Parent Families, Zero Parent Families, All Other Families, Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) Timed-Out Cases and Safety Net/Fleeing Felon/Long-Term Sanction Cases (SN/FF/LTS).

NOTE: The presence of "-999" in data cells indicates that the number of applications is too small to be displayed and has been suppressed in order to protect individual clients' confidentiality.

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Dates

Metadata Created Date June 23, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 23, 2025

Metadata Source

Harvested from State of California

Additional Metadata

Resource Type Dataset
Metadata Created Date June 23, 2022
Metadata Updated Date December 23, 2025
Publisher California Department of Social Services
Maintainer
Identifier 8ed0f11b-f53b-4154-a50a-5c2e56198ed2
Data First Published 2017-06-16T22:31:17.431147
Data Last Modified 2025-11-07T00:05:02.664452
Category Health and Human Services
Public Access Level public
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Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
Harvest Object Id c29dc042-0611-4fcc-b1da-8fabda294780
Harvest Source Id 3ba8a0c1-5dc2-4897-940f-81922d3cf8bc
Harvest Source Title State of California
License http://www.opendefinition.org/licenses/cc-by
Source Datajson Identifier True
Source Hash 2b9bf0fc63e3f52870e93bee9f0ceafe5df6787ed673bb0eff48de5be29fbe76
Source Schema Version 1.1

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