{"id":397821,"date":"2026-03-03T19:41:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T19:41:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/?p=397821"},"modified":"2026-03-09T19:53:58","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T19:53:58","slug":"benefit-changes-slated-through-2028","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/blog\/2026\/03\/03\/benefit-changes-slated-through-2028\/","title":{"rendered":"Benefit Changes to Phase-in Over Two Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The federal budget (HR1) and the California state budget include a number of benefit adjustments that began in late 2025 and will be phased in through 2028. There will be significant changes to Medi-Cal and CalFresh eligibility, benefits and related rules.<\/p>\n<p>To better understand these changes, we invite you to visit the HSA Budget Impact Summary, which looks at implementation dates, description of changes, and provides links to State Medi-Cal and Cal-Fresh information resources.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/budget-impacts\/\">Learn about the\u00a0 budget impacts to CalFresh and Medi-Cal here.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The federal budget (HR1) and the California state budget include a number of benefit adjustments that began in late 2025 and will be phased in through 2028. There will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-397821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-homepage"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-11 19:24:40","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397821"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397821\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/venturacounty.gov\/human-services-agency\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}