政策重点领域
我们将政策工作集中在这些关键领域。
消除饥饿绝非易事。食品银行发挥着关键作用，但我们不能独自做到这一点。与饥饿作斗争不仅是向有需要的人提供紧急食物，还意味着采取行动解决饥饿和贫困的根源。
我们与食品银行网络一起致力于在联邦，州和地方各级倡导反饥饿计划和政策。
For years, we have successfully secured funding in the Governor budget for CalFood. This $8M allocation of funds is provided to food banks annually to purchase California produced food. We continue to advocate to increase the baseline funding from $8M to $60M.
现在，我们已经两次获得粮食银行的资金，用于一次性购买以增强其运营能力。 $25M允许食品银行购买更多或更新的卡车，冷藏库，叉车等。
灾难已成为全州的新常态，移民，农场工人和其他低收入加州人遭受的后果却不成比例。无论是像大火，地震这样的自然灾害，还是像2019年联邦政府关闭和公共服务关闭之类的人为危机，食品银行都在应对食物需求，并且要保持很长一段时间才能保持加利福尼亚人的健康和饱食。
We are grateful for the State Emergency Food Bank Reserve that was codified in State law in the 2024-25 State Budget.
Disaster CalFresh（D-CalFresh），联邦政府称为“灾难补充营养援助计划”（D-SNAP），是一种满足自然灾害后灾难受害者临时营养需求的方法。
D-CalFresh仅在以下所有元素均发生时才可用：
宣传资源和材料：
有关其他信息，请访问以下网站：
每隔五年，儿童营养重新授权（CNR）为国会提供机会来加强和增加对儿童营养和学校膳食计划的投资，这些计划不仅可以改善数百万低收入儿童和家庭的健康和营养状况，还可以提供重要的教育以及支持儿童发展和福祉的丰富活动。这些计划包括国家学校午餐计划（NSLP），学校早餐计划（SBP），课余和夏季营养计划，WIC和儿童和成人护理食品计划（CACFP）。
You can view a full list of 2024 Child Nutrition federal priorities 这里。
Pandemic EBT (or P-EBT) was a temporary federal program that gave families food benefits per eligible child on an Electronic Benefits Transfer (EBT) Card due to meals lost at childcare or school due to the COVID-19 pandemic. P-EBT provided California families with 10 billion dollars in food benefits. P-EBT 1.0 was issued for the 2019-2020 school year. You can read CAFB’s P-EBT in California: Lessons and Opportunities Report to learn more about the impact of the first round of P-EBT. Due to the expiration of the COVID-19 Public Health Emergency, P-EBT 4.0 was the last round of P-EBT issued for the 2022-2023 school year and summer 2023. You can learn more about the last round of P-EBT 4.0 这里。
You can see CDSS’ outcomes reports for more details on the impact of P-EBT 1.0-4.0:
In 2023, California became the first state in the country to opt-in to Summer EBT, a new federal program authorized in the 2023 Consolidated Appropriations Act (H.R. 2617) that advocates from California had long fought for alongside Rep. Levin. This will allow families to shop at their local grocery store and put food on the table while school’s out. Thanks to swift planning by the California Department of Social Services and the California Department of Education, beginning in summer 2024, about 5.3 million eligible children received $40 per month ($120 total) in Summer EBT benefits. We are excited that California will continue to offer SUN Bucks in 2025.
Visit our SUN Bucks page to learn more about this food benefit program.
CalFresh 是一项联邦营养计划，允许人们使用电子福利转移 (EBT) 卡在当地的杂货店购买食物。在全国范围内，它被称为补充营养援助计划 (SNAP)。我们继续倡导加强该计划的联邦和州政策。
SAWS代表全州自动福利系统。加利福尼亚州的县目前使用三种SAWS（信息技术）系统来为寻求社会保障网络支持的人们开展福利资格，确定和维护的业务。加利福尼亚州正在与联邦政府合作，将现有的三个联合体系统和功能整合为一个系统：加利福尼亚州全州自动福利系统（CalSAWS）。CalSAWS).
The CalSAWS system, and the means by which operations and information have migrated and are currently implemented in that system, have foundational impacts on the way consumers and eligibility workers access and experience services. CAFB leads a CalSAWS Advocates Group to support the success of CalSAWS and its impact on Community Based Organizations and customers.
有时-无论农民，生产者，零售商或个人如何精心计划-他们都面临着如何处理剩余食物的艰难决定。在加利福尼亚州的每一天，人们都面临困境，需要一点帮助才能将食物放在餐桌上。我们认为，我们的职责是尽一切可能将这些点联系起来，并确保家庭和个人在其社区中获得新鲜，营养的食物。
环境立法 SB 1383 设定了具有里程碑意义的全州食用食品回收要求。具体而言，该法律要求加利福尼亚州回收不少于20%的可食用食品，否则将在2025年前帮助人们食用。这是全州的目标，但是地方辖区（您所在的城市或县，取决于他们的做法）将得以实施计划实现目标。
新规定将于2022年1月1日生效。 完整的实施时间表在这里。
我们开发了一个 Q&A document for food banksCalRecycle 开发了 模型工具 食物银行和当地司法管辖区可以使用的。
许多加利福尼亚州的生产者都想尽自己的一份力量来减轻社区中的饥饿感，但是波动的食品价格和紧缩的经营利润可能使这变得困难。目前，加利福尼亚州已有州立法，允许一些种植者就捐赠的水果，蔬菜，蛋白质，淀粉和其他食品的合格批发价值要求15%州税收抵免。这种税收抵免有助于使生产者将食品捐赠给加利福尼亚州的食品银行，并将营养食品送达个人，儿童和家庭。
2011年，CAFB率先通过了 AB 152（丰特斯）成立了“农场到家庭税收抵免”计划，以激励加利福尼亚州的水果和蔬菜种植者向食品银行捐赠剩余产品。
2016年，州预算流程中采用了语言，从而对税收抵免进行了多项改进。 1）抵免额从食品的存货成本转换为批发价，2）抵免额从10％增至15％，3）税收抵免的有效期延长了五年，至2022年。
在2019年 AB 614（埃格曼） 通过该法案，将合格的加利福尼亚州食品的类型从水果和蔬菜扩展到了其他产品，例如谷物，奶制品和蛋白质。
在2020-21年的立法周期中，我们提倡将这一非常成功的税收抵免的有效期再延长5年，到2027年。
Supplemental Security Income, or ‘SSI,’ is a federally funded program that provides a modest monthly benefit to low-income people who are 65 or older, blind, or disabled. In California, the SSI payment is augmented by a State Supplementary Payment, or ‘SSP,’ which brings the maximum monthly benefit for an individual living alone to $1,206, an amount at only 92.5% of the Federal Poverty Line, which forces many low-income seniors and people with disabilities to live in poverty.
自2019年6月1日起，SSI / SSP接收者有资格申请CalFresh， as is the case in every other state in the country. This presents a tremendous opportunity to increase food security for this population, and it will continue to require a coordinated effort between the state, counties, and advocates alike to raise enrollment rates in CalFresh among SSI recipients.
我们积极参与 加利福尼亚人参加SSI联盟.
从历史上看，具有联邦分配的个人纳税人识别号码的加利福尼亚移民被排除在CalEITC和幼儿税收抵免之外。
2020年9月，州长Newsom签署了具有里程碑意义的立法，该立法结束了年收入在$30,000或以下的移民工人使用个人纳税人识别号提交税款的行为，其中包括无证工人和持有学生签证的移民，这些收入均来自加利福尼亚收入所得税抵免（CalEITC）和幼儿税收抵免（YCTC）。
我们积极参与 CalEITC coalition.
Since day one, we worked to ensure that food banks were supported at the state and federal levels — including successfully partnering with the California Department of Social Services to establish an Emergency Food Box Program.
Right away, we knew food banks needed workforce support to be able to get food out the door. We immediately requested that Governor Newsom deploy the National Guard to help support hunger relief efforts.
指导
Immediately, we worked to ensure that food banks were classified as “essential” under State’s guidance and regulations.
随时与饥饿作斗争。
