Empower Disregard

The Empower Disregard is an earned income deduction for households with a child that is not eligible for CA due to the Family Benefit Cap Period (FBCP) policy. The disregard amount is equal to the amount of CA benefits a benefit capped (BC) child would be eligible for when included in the CA benefit. (For more information about BC children, see CA Family Benefit Cap Period .)

This amount is deducted from the participant with the greatest countable earned income after all other deductions are calculated. Any remaining amount of the deduction is applied against the earned income of any additional participants.

NOTE This deduction does not apply to the CA Needy Family Test and many Tribal TANF cases.