Acronyms and things
Non-Financial situations
EDBC & More
Tasks/Alerts
Financial Data
100

Statewide Automated Welfare System

What is CalSAWS? 

100
There are two specific group of pages that the worker needs to complete in order to produce a specific action.

Non-Financial and financial pages/sections. 

100

A code that tells the system when to issue the benefits. Three types: Routine, Rush or Manual. 

Immediacy Indicator

100

An area in CalSAWS where a worker can see messages such as a customer who is waiting to be seen. 

Message Center/yellow banner

100

A set of questions used to guide a worker during an interview. 

Root Questions

200

Printing items in batch overnight

What is Central Print/Save Print Centrally

200

 Information on the composition of the household and who is included in the case is gathered here.

Household composition

200

Area where the worker annotates case related information.

Journal

200

A specific page where you can request to send a case to another county. 

ICT summary

200

How often does the client get paid. 

Income frequency
300

Certain non-financial and financial details pages allow workers to establish a reason why you are making changes. 

Change Reason

300

Information on the client's marital status is collected here.

Individual Demographics

300

Worker can search for an view documents that have been distributed for a case.

Distributed documents

300

This page displays intercommunication errors between MEDS and CalSAWS. 

MEDS Alerts

300

This is where we enter the deduction for self employment

Expense screen

400
Date a change is in effect, normally denoted as from a begin date or an end date. 

Effective Date

400

Expecting a bundle of joy

Pregnancy screen

400

This term is used in CalSAWS to refer to renewals and redetermination for programs. 

(RE) RE-Evaluations

400
In the task search page, the red and yellow exclamation (!)  point is what type of indicator? 

New Assignment Indicator

400

This SSA insurance will contribute to the Standard Medical Deduction

Medicare 

500

This will be the next calendar month unless the system is processing past the payment cut-off or benefit processing date. (the date that all benefits are issued for the next month) 

Come-up month

500

A disability condition that will give you no Max Shelter Deduction

Medical Condition 

500
A determination of program eligibility and benefit amount made outside of the system. 

Manual EDBC

500

You can find two reports under the IEVS Abstract Search page. These two reports must be reviewed and dispositioned. 

NHR and PVS

500

How does CalSAWS calculate the monthly income. 

Income Frequency on the income screen

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