California Bill Seeks to Identify Agencies Making Social Services Phone Calls
Californians applying for welfare would no longer receive blocked calls from social services under a new state bill.
Assembly Bill 94, introduced earlier this month by Assemblywoman Laurie Davies (R-Laguna Niguel), would require a county social services program, such as Calfresh or CalWORKs, to display a telephone number or name identifier, rather than a masked number that appears as “Blocked” or “Private.”
When representatives from the county call an applicant from a blocked number, they may mistake it for a scam and not answer, missing their appointment, and being denied, Davies told The Epoch Times.
“It really is a vicious and deceptive cycle,” she said….